Mark Anderson received a postgraduate grant from the NCAA.
5/1/2009 3:16:12 PM
HAMILTON, N.Y. (5/1/09) – Colgate’s Mark Anderson (Hastings, Neb.) has received a post graduate educational grant from the NCAA, as the organization announced its 58 recipients from winter sports.
During the 2008-09 academic season, the NCAA will award out 174 postgraduate scholarships (87 male, 87 female), which will amount to a one-time, nonrenewable grant worth $7,500. These scholarships are awarded to student-athletes that excel both athletically and academically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate eligibility.
Anderson, a four-year letterman in men’s hockey, concluded his career playing in 128 games for the Raiders on the blueline, while posting nine goals and 24 assists. The senior has gained numerous awards during his athletic and academic career at Colgate. During the 2008-09 season, Anderson served as an assistant captain for the hockey team and was named the recipient of the 2009 Terry Slater Award, which is named after Colgate’s former coach between 1977-92 and is handed out to the senior whose performance, leadership, and dedication both on and off the ice has the greatest impact on the program. A three-time ECAC Hockey All-Academic team member, he also garnered Colgate’s 2009 Co-Male Scholar Athlete of the Year. In addition, Anderson was named a 2009 Gottesman Award winner, which is a financial grant given to a senior displaying academic and athletic excellence, and who is majoring in the sciences and plans to attend medical school.
Anderson joins Dave Thomas (2005) as the only two Colgate men's hockey players to receive the postgraduate grant.
Anderson, who held a 3.84 grade point average heading into his final semester, will be graduating in May, 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in Cellular Neuroscience. He was accepted early decision into George Washington’s School of Medicine.