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Four Buffs Earn Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarships
July 03, 2013 | Football, General, Men's Basketball, Track and Field, Skiing
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Four University of Colorado Buffaloes have been awarded Pac-12 Conference Postgraduate Scholarships, as announced by Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott.
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Brianne Beemer (track and field), Dustin Ebner (football), Eliska Hajkova (skiing) and Ian Mallams (skiing) were four of the 44 Pac-12 student-athletes named.
Each scholarship of $3,000 goes to student-athletes with a minimum 3.0 grade point average who have also demonstrated a commitment to continuing education, campus and community involvement, and leadership. Since the program began in 1999, the Pac-12 has awarded over $1.5 million for postgraduate study.
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Beemer (Loveland, Colo.) graduated in May 2013 with degrees in marketing and linguistics and hearing sciences. She was a two-time Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention selection and a two-time member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation All-Academic team (2012 and 2013). Beemer was also an Academic All-Big 12 selection in 2010. In May, she was awarded the Buffalo Award of Distinction.
Ebner (Arvada, Colo.) earned his degree in ecology and evolutionary biology in
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December of 2011 and continued his coursework in integrative physiology while competing on the football team last fall. He earned second-team Pac-12 All-Academic Team honors as a senior and first-team Academic All-Big 12 honors as a redshirt freshman.
Hajkova (Jablonec, Czech Republic) will graduate in December with a degree in Integrative Physiology. In 2011 and 2013, she was named to the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team and in 2011 was also First Team Academic All-Big 12 At-Large team.
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Mallams (Whitefish, Mont.) graduated in May 2013 with degrees in environmental studies and geography. He was named to the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team from 2010-13 and was also named to the 2011 First Team Academic All-Big 12 At-Large team. This past April, Mallams was awarded with the CU Scholar-Athlete Award, for having accumulated the highest cumulative grade point average in his class (3.799) and in May he was also awarded the Buffalo Award of Distinction. As a junior he was a member of the CU 4.0 club.
To be selected for a Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarship, a student-athlete must:
-+ Have an overall undergraduate minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 (based on a 4.00 scale) or its equivalent.
-+ Be in his/her final season of intercollegiate athletics eligibility in all sports OR be in his/her final year of undergraduate studies, having exhausted athletics eligibility in all sports. The student-athlete will be evaluated on the basis of all academic work completed at time of selection.
-+ Have performed with distinction as a member of a varsity team. The degree of the student-athlete's athletic achievement will be weighed at least equally with the degree of academic performance.
-+ Intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time student in a graduate or professional program at an accredited institution, or in a postgraduate program for which an undergraduate degree is required for admission.
-+ Have behaved, both on and off the field, in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics.
In 1999, the Pac-12 Conference created a postgraduate scholarship program to honor outstanding student-athletes from its member institutions who also are outstanding scholars. Each Pac-12 institution selects four student-athlete recipients, two men and two women, through its institutional selection process.
Also announced this week from the conference office was the 2012-13 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal Winners. A Conference Medal is awarded annually to each member institution's outstanding senior male and female student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership. Sabatino Chen (basketball) and Emma Coburn (cross country/track & field) were honored as the Buffs' recipients this past April at CU's Annual Academic Breakfast.
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Chen (Louisville, Colo.) graduated in May 2013 with a degree in mathematics. He was a two-time Pac-12 All-Academic First Team selection as well as a member of the Dean's List in 2011. Chen was also a member of the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll. He was a key starter and reserve in the Buffaloes second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance (2011-12 & 2012-13), a school-first in back-to-back years since 1961-62 & 1962-63.
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Coburn (Crested Butte, Colo.) also graduated in May 2013 with a degree in marketing. During the 2013 season, she was named to the MPSF All-Academic team and the Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention team. Coburn was an Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree in 2011 and was on the second team in 2010. She finished her career with three individual NCAA Championships, twice in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and once in the indoor mile.
Conference medal winners have been named every year since the 1960-61 academic year. In 2009, the Pac-12 renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as Commissioner of the Pac-10.