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March 29, 2005

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Soccer player Lindley Beckman and football player Rob Robertson have been nominated by the University of Mississippi for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship.

The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship has been presented by the Southeastern Conference since 1986 to the league's top male and female scholar-athletes.

The Southeastern Conference will name the 2005 recipients of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship on April 6 in conjunction with National Student-Athlete Day.

Beckman, a senior from Louisville, Ky., has a 3.96 grade point average, majoring in political science. She has made the Chancellor's Honor Roll in every semester she has attended Ole Miss and is a three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll. She has earned first-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors during her last two seasons. She won the Alpha Omicron Pi Woman of Excellence Award in 2003 and was a nominee for the University of Mississippi Taylor Award in 2004, given for academic achievement.

While at Ole Miss, she has been active in community service, volunteering at the Oxford Humane Society and the Mississippi State Veterans Home. A member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, she participated in "Reading with the Rebels," visiting local elementary schools, and working at a charity car wash benefiting victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedies.

Beckman finished her Ole Miss soccer career as a four-year starter, tying for most career starts in school history. She accounted for 33 career points, including 11 goals and 11 assists. A co-captain as a senior, she was also named the team MVP and was a member of the All-SEC Tournament Team. As a junior, she won the team's Unsung Hero Award.

Robertson, a senior from Centreville, Miss., has a 3.95 grade point average, majoring in biological sciences. As a senior, he was named first-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American. He has earned SEC Academic Honor Roll and Chancellor's Honor Roll mention in every semester he has attended Ole Miss. He is a member of the National Dean's List, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and is a nominee for the International Scholar Laureate Program Delegation on Medicine.

Rob Robertson

He is a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and has participated in "Reading with the Rebels" every year of his Ole Miss career. He is vice-president of Alpha Epsilon Delta pre-medicine society and has visited area retirement homes, high schools, churches and elementary schools. He is active in "Rebels against Drunk Driving" and served on a medical mission trip to Honduras in 2004, assisting doctors during surgery and also studied abroad in Belize in 2003.

Athletically, Robertson was second on the squad in total tackles with 73 as a senior, which was ninth among linebackers in the SEC. During his career, he had 149 tackles and two interceptions. He won the Jeff Hamm Award for Most Improved Defensive Player on the squad in 2003 and was named to the Coaches' All-SEC Freshman Team in 2001.

Robertson, who has been accepted into the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, has been selected to receive a $7,500 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He is one of 56 student-athletes who participated in fall sports in all NCAA divisions that were honored with the scholarship. 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.

The SEC Office will be releasing each of its institution's nominees periodically until the April 6 winners are announced. The schedule is as follows:

Alabama - Stewart Smith, Swimming & Diving (male) / Katie French, Soccer (female)
Arkansas - Jason Sandfort, Track & Field (male) / Shiloh Whiting, Track & Field (female)
Auburn - B.J. Jones, Swimming & Diving (male) / Margaret Hoelzer, Swimming & Diving (female)
Florida - Justin Zumsteg, Swimming & Diving (male) / Ashley Kellgren, Soccer (female)
Georgia - Miguel Mendoza, Swimming & Diving (male) / Samantha Arsenault, Swimming & Diving (female)
Kentucky - Jeff Hamberg, Rifle (male) / Stacy Springer, Golf (female)
LSU - Jason Determann, Baseball (male) / Chelsea Agar, Soccer (female)
Ole Miss - Rob Robertson, Football (male) / Lindley Beckman, Soccer (female)
Miss. State - March 30
South Carolina - March 31
Tennessee - April 1
Vanderbilt - April 4

National Student-Athlete Day was created in 1987 by the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) and Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, and presented by the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).

National Student-Athlete Day is held each April 6 to celebrate outstanding student-athletes who have achieved excellence in academics and athletics while having made significant contributions to the community. It is also a time to recognize those parents, teachers, coaches and school systems which make it possible for young people to find the balance between academics and athletics.

Each year, the SEC, in conjunction with ALLTEL, an SEC Corporate Partner, provides the league's male and female McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship recipients with a $10,000 post-graduate scholarship. The 22 remaining male and female finalists for the award will also receive a $5,000 post-graduate scholarship. The award recipients are chosen by a committee of Faculty Athletics Representatives from the 12 SEC institutions and are honored at the SEC Spring Meetings in Sandestin, Fla. on June 2.

Last year's recipients were Alabama soccer player Lauren Imwalle and Auburn diver Caesar Garcia.

Tina Robinson in Houston Tx Run Track in High School

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