University of Georgia Athletics
Middleton, Todd Nominated For McWhorter Scholarship
March 26, 2007 | General
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 2007 recipients of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship on April 6 in conjunction with National Student-Athlete Day.
Middleton, a native of Norcross, Ga., has earned a 3.88 grade point average, in the Master's Public Health program. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Biology and Psychology at the University of Notre Dame in 2006.
She was awarded the Ramsey Scholarship for Academic and Athletic Excellence at UGA, which goes to the top 10 Bulldog student-athletes ranked by grade point average. She was also nominated for the Outstanding Academic Mentor at the Academic Roundtable Dinner.
She was named first-team All-SEC and first-team Easton All-America in 2006. She was a Top 25 finalist for the NCAA Collegiate Player of the Year as well. She hit .368 at the NCAA Regionals last season. She was a three-time team captain while playing at Notre Dame.
As a graduate student at Georgia, she is on the Athletics Director's Honor Roll and was a National Dean's List student at Notre Dame.
Todd, a senior from Charlotte, N.C., has a 3.46 grade point average, majoring in Marketing. He is a three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll (2006-07 Honor Roll released later in the spring) and a two-time honoree at Athletics Director's Academic Roundtable for academic excellence. He won the 2004 Howell Hollis Award for the highest grade point average on the team. He was a 2006 Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
He is a member of Georgia's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and has served as a volunteer at the Athens-Clarke County Food Bank, hosted Special Olympics students at the UGA driving range for a golf clinic and provided meals to needy families during Thanksgiving. He has also visited local middle schools.
He is a two-time honorable mention All-America and a second-team All-America in 2005. He is a two-time PING All-Southeast Region Team member and was a member of the Bulldogs' national championship team in 2005. He was named the SEC Co-Freshman of the Year and first-team All-SEC in 2004.
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 AT&T, an SEC Corporate Champion sponsor, 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 May 31.
Last year's recipients were Florida basketball player Sarah Lowe and LSU football player Rudy Niswanger.
