Brooks Martino (Photo/Hunter Martin)PHILADELPHIA -- The NCAA has awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships of $7,500 each to 29 male student-athletes and 29 female student-athletes who participated in winter sports, and the list includes University of Pennsylvania wrestler Brooks Martino.
Martino joins other winter student-athletes from the following sports: men's and women's basketball; women's bowling; men's and women's fencing; men's and women's gymnastics; men's and women's ice hockey; men's and women's indoor track & field; men's and women's rifle; men's and women's skiing; and men's and women's swimming & diving.
Martino is the 17th Penn athlete to receive an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, and the third in the last two years after Shaul Gordon (men's fencing) and Jenna Hebert (women's rowing) last year. Martino also is just the third Penn wrestler honored with an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, after Shawn Heinrichs (1994) and Andrei Rodzianko (1999). The NCAA has been awarding Postgraduate Scholarships since 1964.
This past season, Martino qualified for his second NCAA Championships after finishing second at the EIWA Championships at 165 pounds. He entered the conference meet as the No. 7 seed and defeated the No. 2 and 3 seeds to reach the championship bout.
A two-time member of the Dean's List at Penn, Martino graduated Magna Cum Laude in May with a degree in biology from the College of Arts and Sciences. An Academic All-Ivy selection in 2017, Martino was twice named All-Academic by the National Wrestling Coaches Association and was a 2017 Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area selection.
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.
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