University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Elisabeth Bachman and Sean Kern Earn NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships
May 03, 2001 | Bruin Athletics
May 3, 2001
Women's volleyball second-team Academic All-American Elisabeth Bachman and two-time NCAA men's water polo Player of the Year Sean Kern have earned NCAA postgraduate scholarships, it was announced today. They were two of just 26 Division I student-athletes honored in this manner.
The NCAA has awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships of $5,000 each to 29 men and 29 women who participated in fall sports, which included men's and women's cross country, women's field hockey, football, women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer and men's water polo. Only 26 of those 58 scholarships were presented Division I student-athletes.
To qualify for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, a student-athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.000 (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.
Bachman, who helped lead the women's volleyball team to the NCAA Elite Eight in December, earned first-team All-Region and first-team All-Pacific-10 Conference honors three times during her career. In addition to being a second-team Academic All-American as a senior, she was also All-Academic District-8 first team this year and earned Pac-10 All-Academic honors three times.
Kern, who led the Bruins to back-to-back NCAA titles in 1999 and 2000, is a two-time recipient of the Peter J. Cutino Award, presented annually to the water polo player of the year. He was also the MVP of the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two years, the 2000 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Year and a three-time first-team MPSF selection. He was also a member of the U.S. Olympic water polo team this past summer.
UCLA student-athletes have now earned 55 NCAA postgraduate scholarships.
