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ACC Unveils 2021 Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients
3/24/2021 11:00:00 AM | Baseball, Football, Rowing, Women's Tennis, Athletics
GREENSBORO – The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Wednesday a list of 52 student-athletes who have been selected as 2021 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship Award recipients.
This year's list includes three student-athletes from across the conference who will also receive the Thacker Award and nine student-athletes who plan to pursue professional careers in their chosen sports and were named honorary recipients.
Duke's Rakavius Chambers (football), Meible Chi (tennis) and Caroline Olsen (rowing) were named Weaver-James-Corrigan Award recipients while Michael Rothenberg (baseball) was an honorary selection.
The Weaver-James-Corrigan and Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarships are awarded to selected student-athletes who intend to pursue a graduate degree following completion of their undergraduate requirements. Each recipient will receive $6,000 toward his or her graduate education. Those honored have performed with distinction in both the classroom and their respective sport, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community.
A three-time All-ACC Academic Team recipient and a member of the 2020 Allstate American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team, Chambers had a successful four-year career for the Blue Devils. He saw action in every game while at Duke (49 games), making 33 starts along the offensive line. The Opelika, Ala., native played 2,832 career snaps and had two bowl wins to his name (2017 Quick Lane Bowl and 2018 Walk-On's Independence Bowl). Throughout his Duke tenure, the biology major helped block for an offense that averaged 375.69 yards of total offense per game. He also paved the way for the Blue Devils to record 12 games with 40+ points.
Chi, a 2020 ITA Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship Award recipient, has been a key contributor for the women's tennis team since setting foot on Duke's campus five years ago. She currently owns a 126-37 all-time singles mark and ranks fifth on the Blue Devil career wins list. A two-time All-ACC selection, Chi has accumulated 37 career ACC singles wins good for fourth on Duke's record books. A stellar doubles player as well, the evolutionary anthropology major has collected a 216-76 combined singles and doubles ledger over her career to rank eighth at Duke. She is a two-time All-ACC Academic Team and four-time ACC Honor Roll selection, while qualifying for the NCAA Singles Championship in three straight seasons.
Olsen is in the midst of her senior season with the Blue Devil rowing program, having been named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll each of the previous three years. The Healdsburg, Calif., native was part of the third-varsity four crew that took second place in its race at the season-opening Carolina Cup in Clemson, S.C., on March 6. Olsen is an interdepartmental major at the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, with a focus in neuroscience as well as public policy. She was one of four Blue Devils named a team captain prior to the start of the season.
A senior out of Boca Raton, Fla., Rothenberg is a two-time nominee for the Buster Posey Award. He holds a .267 career batting average and boasts 108 hits and 99 RBIs. Rothenberg also put together a 40-game on-base streak spanning from June 2019 to March 2021. During the shortened 2020 season as a junior, Rothenberg's .551 on-base percentage led the ACC. He also ranked first on the team in RBIs (17) and tied for sixth in the league in walks (15). This season, the political science major is tied for fifth in the ACC in doubles with six while ranking second in the conference in walks with 16.
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This year's list includes three student-athletes from across the conference who will also receive the Thacker Award and nine student-athletes who plan to pursue professional careers in their chosen sports and were named honorary recipients.
Duke's Rakavius Chambers (football), Meible Chi (tennis) and Caroline Olsen (rowing) were named Weaver-James-Corrigan Award recipients while Michael Rothenberg (baseball) was an honorary selection.
The Weaver-James-Corrigan and Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarships are awarded to selected student-athletes who intend to pursue a graduate degree following completion of their undergraduate requirements. Each recipient will receive $6,000 toward his or her graduate education. Those honored have performed with distinction in both the classroom and their respective sport, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community.
A three-time All-ACC Academic Team recipient and a member of the 2020 Allstate American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team, Chambers had a successful four-year career for the Blue Devils. He saw action in every game while at Duke (49 games), making 33 starts along the offensive line. The Opelika, Ala., native played 2,832 career snaps and had two bowl wins to his name (2017 Quick Lane Bowl and 2018 Walk-On's Independence Bowl). Throughout his Duke tenure, the biology major helped block for an offense that averaged 375.69 yards of total offense per game. He also paved the way for the Blue Devils to record 12 games with 40+ points.
Chi, a 2020 ITA Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship Award recipient, has been a key contributor for the women's tennis team since setting foot on Duke's campus five years ago. She currently owns a 126-37 all-time singles mark and ranks fifth on the Blue Devil career wins list. A two-time All-ACC selection, Chi has accumulated 37 career ACC singles wins good for fourth on Duke's record books. A stellar doubles player as well, the evolutionary anthropology major has collected a 216-76 combined singles and doubles ledger over her career to rank eighth at Duke. She is a two-time All-ACC Academic Team and four-time ACC Honor Roll selection, while qualifying for the NCAA Singles Championship in three straight seasons.
Olsen is in the midst of her senior season with the Blue Devil rowing program, having been named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll each of the previous three years. The Healdsburg, Calif., native was part of the third-varsity four crew that took second place in its race at the season-opening Carolina Cup in Clemson, S.C., on March 6. Olsen is an interdepartmental major at the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, with a focus in neuroscience as well as public policy. She was one of four Blue Devils named a team captain prior to the start of the season.
A senior out of Boca Raton, Fla., Rothenberg is a two-time nominee for the Buster Posey Award. He holds a .267 career batting average and boasts 108 hits and 99 RBIs. Rothenberg also put together a 40-game on-base streak spanning from June 2019 to March 2021. During the shortened 2020 season as a junior, Rothenberg's .551 on-base percentage led the ACC. He also ranked first on the team in RBIs (17) and tied for sixth in the league in walks (15). This season, the political science major is tied for fifth in the ACC in doubles with six while ranking second in the conference in walks with 16.
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