March 6, 2009

From dcmilitary.com

Navy senior Lizzie Barnes is one of 58 student-athletes nationally and one of six female Division I women's soccer players to be awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship.

The NCAA awards up to 174 postgraduate scholarships, 87 for men and 87 for women, annually. The winners represent fall 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 NCAA will name postgraduate scholars for winter and spring sports later this year.

Barnes, who also earned First-Team Academic All-America honors for the second time in her career earlier this fall, was the only Patriot Leaguer chosen among the 58 honorees.

"It is an honor to have been considered for and awarded such a scholarship," said Barnes. "There are so many graduating student-athletes across the country who are deserving of this honor and I am very humbled to be considered one of them."

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