Anderson Recipient of Prestigious Scholarship

Colgate senior forward Mark Anderson (Hastings, Neb.) has been named recipient of a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship, the NCAA announced. Anderson is one of 58 winter sports student-athletes to receive the scholarship and the only hockey student-athlete (all divisions, men and women) to be honored.

Anderson, a four-year letterman in men’s hockey, concluded his career playing in 128 games for the Raiders on the blueline, while posting nine goals and 24 assists. The senior has gained numerous awards during his athletic and academic career at Colgate. During the 2008-09 season, Anderson served as an assistant captain for the hockey team and was named the recipient of the 2009 Terry Slater Award, which is named after Colgate’s former coach between 1977-92 and is handed out to the senior whose performance, leadership, and dedication both on and off the ice has the greatest impact on the program. A three-time ECAC Hockey All-Academic team member, he also garnered Colgate’s 2009 Co-Male Scholar Athlete of the Year. In addition, Anderson was named a 2009 Gottesman Award winner, which is a financial grant given to a senior displaying academic and athletic excellence, and who is majoring in the sciences and plans to attend medical school.

Anderson joins Dave Thomas (2005) as the only two Colgate men's hockey players to receive the postgraduate grant.

Anderson, who held a 3.84 grade point average heading into his final semester, will be graduating in May, 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in Cellular Neuroscience. He was accepted early decision into George Washington’s School of Medicine.

The NCAA annually awards educational grants to 58 student-athletes (29 men and 29 women) through the NCAA postgraduate scholarship program. The winners represent winter-sports participants 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.

Complete NCAA postgraduate scholarship list can be accessed via the NCAA Web site by clicking here.