Holliday Receives NCAC Postgraduate Scholarship

OHIO WESLEYAN senior Kyle Holliday (Van Wert) has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, it was announced by the NCAA.

The NCAA awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships of $7,500 each to 29 male student-athletes and 29 female student-athletes who participated in winter sports, which included basketball, fencing, gymnastics, ice hockey, rifle, swimming, track & field, and wrestling. In addition to the winter sport honorees, the NCAA also awards 116 postgraduate scholarships to student-athletes participating in fall and spring sports in which the NCAA conducts championships or participates in as an emerging sport, for a total of 174 postgraduate scholarships annually.

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.

Holliday, a wing for the Battling Bishops, was a second-team selection on the 2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® College Division Men's Basketball teams. He ranked sixth in the North Coast Athletic Conference in both scoring and rebounding with respective averages of 15.7 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. He tied for fourth in the conference in 3-point field goals (2.36/game), and ranked sixth in 3-point field goal percentage (.434) and 15th in assists (2.28/game). During the 2008-09 season, Holliday became the 25th Ohio Wesleyan men's basketball player to surpass the 1000-point mark during his career. Holliday is an accounting major with a cumulative grade point average of 3.87.