SEWANEE, Tenn. (June 25, 2013) – Sewanee student-athlete Jenny Liles, C'13, has been awarded a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletic competition.
Liles, the 2013 University of the South Valedictorian, truly embodies what it means to be a successful student-athlete.
This past spring, Liles received the first-ever Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Woman of the Year award while also being named a 2013 Capital One College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-American.
Additionally, Liles was named the Sewanee Athletic Department co-Female Athlete of the Year and earned ITA All-American honors in both singles and doubles. Liles finished the season ranked seventh in doubles and 28th in singles.
A First-Team All-SAA honoree, Liles finished college with a 4.0 grade point average (GPA) in Biochemistry and English.
This past season, Liles led Sewanee to the 2013 SAA Championship, the third-round of the NCAA Tournament, and a No. 15 ITA national ranking.
Over her career, Liles was a four-time all-conference selection while leading the Tigers to a pair of NCAA Tournament berths. Additionally, Liles qualified for two NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships.
Off the court, Liles was a four-time all-conference academic honoree and ITA Scholar Athlete. She was a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society and served as President of the Alpha Epsilon Delta National Medical Society.
Additionally, Liles served as an Arcadian, a member of the Order of Gownsmen, a Benedict Scholar, and was the Vice-President of Phi Beta Kappa. Finally, Liles was named the University of the South's 2012 Homecoming Queen.
Liles was recently accepted into the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where she is scheduled to attend this fall.
A native of Little Rock, Ark., Liles is the daughter of Gary and Marci Liles. Her younger sister Lindsey is currently a rising sophomore on the Tiger women's tennis team.
Liles joins former Sewanee women's tennis student-athlete Jordan Casey, C'09, as an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner. Liles also becomes the third Tiger this year to win an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship after swimmers Phillip Link and Sara Neil were named recipients in April.
With 30 Postgraduate Scholarship recipients, Sewanee ranks among the nation's leading institutions in any NCAA division. Created in 1964, NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships promote and encourage education by rewarding the Association's most accomplished student-athletes. There are 29 male and 29 female student-athletes honored, with each receiving $7,500.
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