areas: classroom, community, character and competition. Navy has produced six first-team honorees in their respective sports over the last six years, highlighted by Dobbs’ award in 2010 and 2008 grad Evan Barnes, who was men’s soccer’s inaugural award winner in 2007. Additionally, women’s basketball player Kate Hobbs (‘07), women’s soccer’s Lizzie Barnes (‘08), men’s lacrosse’s Andy Tormey (‘09) and football’s John Dowd (‘12) each were named to the Lowe’s Senior All-America First Team.
u John Dowd (‘12) was a Two-Time First-Team Academic All-American and is the first football player in school history to achieve that feat.
Scholarship Winners
Ricky Dobbs (‘11) was named s Senior CLASS Award winner otball Bowl Subdivision.
n Trent (‘18) was one of two Navy players to earn CoSIDA Academic rica honors (Stephen Born ‘18).
t Meghan Hegarty (‘18) earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors in 2015 as a member of Navy’s women’s soccer team.
In addition to furthering their education at schools across the country, students at the Naval Academy annually are in competition for several prestigious scholarships. Since Navy’s first Rhodes Scholar, E. Van Meter (‘28), a total of 48 Naval Academy graduates have received the Rhodes Scholarship, including 2013 graduate Katie Whitcombe, a member of the women’s track and field team. Also, 27 grads have won George C. Marshall Scholarships and five recent graduates earned Bowman Scholarships to the Naval Postgraduate School. Lightweight rower Chris Medford (‘11), heavyweight rower Mike Shea (‘11), rifle standout Kenan Wang (‘11), Phillip Ellworth (‘15) from the lightweight crew team and Emily Jensen (‘15) of the track & field/cross country team were each honored as Bowman Scholars. Standout swimmer Kelly Zahalka (‘09) was a recipient of both the Harry S. Truman and Gen. George C. Marshall Scholarships, which paved the way for her to study for two years in the United Kingdom. Katie Davidson (‘13) of the women’s swimming team and Ronald Allen (‘13) of the sprint football team won Marshall Scholarships in 2013. Former women’s track and cross country runner Kayla Sax (‘10) became just the ninth student from the Naval Academy to be awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which has enabled her to contribute to research focused on alternative energy sources at the University of Cambridge. Eric Washkewicz (‘13) became the second student-athlete from the Navy lightweight rowing team to be selected for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, joining Tom Paul (‘12). Washkewicz is the 11th student from the Naval Academy to earn the scholarship. Ellen Bradford (‘16) of the women’s swimming team and Michael Woulfe (‘16) of the wrestling team were awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships during the 2015-16 academic year. They are the 12th and 13th Navy student-athletes in the last seven years to win a postgraduate scholarship. Navy football player E.K. Binns received an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship from the National Football Foundation and was a finalist for the Academic Heisman in 2015.
Academic All-Americans
Naval Academy student-athletes have totaled 117 CoSIDA Academic All-America certificates over the years, with 84 of those awards coming since the start of the 1999-2000 academic year. Navy had a school record 11 in 2014-15 and equaled that number in 2015-16.
Patriot League Scholar-Athletes p Ellen Bradford (‘16) of the women’s swimming team
was a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American (2014-16) and was named the Patriot League’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year among all sports in 2016. Bradford was the recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
Navy had four Patriot League Scholar-Athletes of the Year in 2015-16: Seniors Sam Peckham (men’s cross country), Ellen Bradford (women’s swimming) and Kathleen Heinbach (women’s rowing) and sophomore Walker Sims (men’s tennis).
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