March 8, 2005

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA . . . . Central College volleyball player Jamie Stark (Center Point, Iowa/Center Point-Urbana) and Wartburg College football player Mark Giesmann (Waverly, Iowa/Waverly-Shell Rock) were among 56 recipients of the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships awarded to fall sport participants.

Stark, the 2004 IIAC MVP and a 2004 CoSIDA Academic All-America®, is a social science major. Giesmann, a two-time First Team CoSIDA Academic All-America®, is an engineering science/mathematics double-major.

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-athlete must have behaved, both on and off the field, in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics. The student-athlete also must intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time or part-time graduate student.

The complete list of recipients, encompassing student-athletes from all three NCAA divisions, can be found here - Men/Women

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