June 25, 2009
(release courtesy of Mark Adkins, Wartburg College sports information)

WAVERLY, IOWA . . . Wartburg College senior women’s golfer Kate Thompson of Webster City was one of 29 women from NCAA Divisions I, II and III to be selected for a prestigious post-graduate scholarship. The spring student-athlete group was released Tuesday, June 23.

The NCAA awards up to 174 postgraduate scholarships annually, 87 for men and 87 for women. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.

Thompson, who also earned academic All-American accolades from the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America and ESPN The Magazine earlier this month, was a key contributor to Wartburg’s fourth Iowa Conference team championship and NCAA national tournament berth in the last five seasons. She ended her collegiate playing career as a three-time all-conference and two-time National Golf Coaches Association all-region selection and gained Duramed Futures Tour/NGCA All-American honors in 2008. Thompson is enrolled in the University of Des Moines’ School of Osteopathic Medicine next fall where she will take part in the Rural Medicine Education Pathway which prepares students for a primary care practice in a rural community.

The award continues an impressive stretch for the college, as Wartburg has had at least one NCAA post-graduate scholar in each of the last six years. The institution’s all-time total is 29 with 22 of those being presented since 1991.

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