Finch and Kessinger Selected Post-Graduate Scholars
A pair of student-athletes from Greenville University have been chosen as the 2021 St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Post-Graduate Scholarship award winners.
Kessinger was a member of the Greenville Cross Country and Track and Field teams. He majored in Physics and Mathematics, holding a 3.96 grade-point average, and will be pursuing his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering this fall. In addition to being an All-Conference member in both cross country and track and field, Kessinger served as a student recruiter for Greenville University, representing the school at various recruiting events.
Finch, a four-year starter for the Panthers volleyball team, majored in English Lanuage Arts in Secondary Education, carrying a 3.99 grade-point average. Finch plans on pursuing a Masters Degree in English as Second Language with the goal of earning a doctorate in American Studies with an emphasis on Education. She will go down as one of the best in the SLIAC to step on the volleyball court, being a four-time First Team All-Conference selection, and the 2019 SLIAC Player of the Year.
Established in 2002, the SLIAC Post-Graduate Scholarship is awarded each spring to one male and one female graduating student-athlete from a conference member school. Student-athletes are nominated by their institution's Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR), must have earned two varsity letters in a sport in which the Conference sponsors a Championship and have at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA (on a 4.0 scale). Scholarship recipients are selected through a vote of the Conference FARs and receive a $1000 scholarship to be used at some point during their first two years of postgraduate studies.
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