Evelien Dekkers Awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Monday, July 12, 2010 | Track and Field
Senior Florida thrower Evelien Dekkers (Etten-Leur, Netherlands), the 2010 NCAA javelin champion, has been awarded a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship, it was announced on Monday.
Scholarships of $7,500 have been given by the NCAA to 29 male and 29 female student-athletes who participated in the spring sports of men's and women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's outdoor track and field, baseball, men's volleyball, softball, women's rowing and women's water polo.
Dekkers, a 2010 CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Second-Team Academic All-America selection and a two-time First-Team Academic All-District III honoree, holds a 3.84 grade-point average, majoring in food science and human nutrition. She also is minoring in business administration and is on track to graduate this summer.
Dekkers is the only person in school history to win an NCAA women's javelin championship and did so at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. She concludes her collegiate career as Florida's career leader in the women's javelin with a school-record toss of 59.00m/193-7, recorded in her last collegiate competition. She goes down as the No. 7 all-time collegiate performer in the women's javelin.
Dekkers, a four-time Pepsi Florida Relays javelin champion, won the Southeastern Conference women's javelin title in each of her last three collegiate seasons and earned three All-America honors during the course of her career.
Dekkers also has been named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll in each year of her collegiate career.
To qualify for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, a student-athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.200 (on a 4.000 scale) or its equivalent, and must have performed with distinction as a member of the varsity team in the sport in which the student-athlete was nominated. The student-athletes chosen have showed dedication and effort while performing both on and off the field at a high level that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics.
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