Emory Swimmers Harrison Brown & Keith Diggs Win NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships

Two senior members of the Emory University men's swimming and diving team, Harrison Brown and Keith Diggs, have been named as recipients of the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.

As a result, Brown and Diggs are awarded a $7,500 scholarship for postgraduate study.  The honor is based on both their academic and athletic success over their Emory careers.

Brown is a nine-time all-American, which includes the six all-America certificates he earned at the 2009 NCAA Championships.  The senior has been part of six school-record setting performances during his time at Emory, three in individual events and three in relays.  He has also helped the team to four top-four finishes at the NCAA Championships, including a second-place finish in 2009.

Academically, Brown has recorded a grade point average of 3.6 as a business major at Emory.  He was named to the Dean's List in 2008, and is a two-time academic all-American.  Brown plans on attending medical school in the fall of 2010.

Diggs, the NCAA Division III Champion in the 400-yard individual medley in 2008, earned five all-America certificates and four all-America honorable mentions over his career.  At the 2009 NCAA Championships, he earned all-America honors in the 400-yard individual medley and the 1,650-yard freestyle, setting a school-record in the former.

Diggs has recorded a 3.788 grade point average as a political science major with a minor in music.  He is both a National Merit Scholar and a John Emory Scholar, and has been named to the Dean's List four times during his academic career.  Keith tentatively plans to attend law school after graduation.

Emory has been awarded 64 postgraduate scholarships over the school's history, and 47 since 2000, more than any other NCAA institution except Stanford University, which has 49.  Emory's swimming and diving team has seen 21 of its members win the scholarship over the past eight years, including eight winners over the last three years.

This season's NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients (29 men and 29 women) represent winter-sports participants from all NCAA divisions, who will receive one-time, nonrenewable grants of $7,500.
The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition. The Association awards up to 174 postgraduate scholarships annually, 87 for men and 87 for women.

The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was created in 1964 to promote and encourage postgraduate education by rewarding the Association's most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports. For more information about the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, go to the Diversity and Inclusion link under the ‘About the NCAA' tab at www.ncaa.org.