BATON ROUGE — Former LSU men’s tennis player Kevin Dessauer received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, the association announced Wednesday.
Dessauer, who ended his LSU career as one of the most academically acclaimed student-athletes in school history, was one of 58 student-athletes (29 men and 29 women) to earn a one-time, nonrenewable grant of $7,500 scholarship this spring.
The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.
The four-time ITA Scholar-Athlete graduated in kinesiology with a perfect 4.0 G.P.A as a University Medalist. He is the only two-time Southeastern Conference Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year award winner. The New Orleans native was named the 2007 LSU Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Dessauer was one of four SEC Student-Athletes to receive the scholarship. Alabama’s golfer Sykora Joseph and softball player Jordan Praytor along with Vanderbilt’s tennis player Amanda Taylor also earned the scholarship.
The NCAA awards up to 174 postgraduate scholarships annually, 87 for men and 87 for women.
The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was created in 1964 to promote and encourage postgraduate education by rewarding the Association’s most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports.