NEWPORT NEWS, Va.— Recent Duquesne University graduate Hanna Everhart (Bloomsburg, Pa./Bloomsburg Area) has been awarded an Atlantic 10 Conference Postgraduate Scholarship for 2022 the league announced Friday. The prestigious honor, which totals $70,000, is given to a graduating student-athlete from each of the league's 14 members.
 
Since 2014, the A-10's Postgraduate Scholarship program has awarded $490,000 to 94 former student-athletes. Each of the 14 honorees receives $5,000 to contribute towards full-time enrollment in a postgraduate or professional program. Instituted to provide continuing education opportunities for graduating student-athletes, the program returns following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Everhart, who recently became the first-ever Duquesne swimmer to earn a College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America® nod, is a 4.0 Physician Assistant Studies major and was also a two-time A-10 All-Academic Team selection.

She was a three-time A-10 Champion in the 200-yard freestyle and was a member of the champion 800-yard freestyle relay team that set a new conference record. She also took fourth place in the 100-yard free and was a member of the bronze medal 400-yard freestyle relay team at A-10 Championships.
 
Everhart also added to the team point total as a member of the fourth-place 200-yard free relay team that established a school record and the fifth place 400-yard medley relay team. Her efforts helped the Dukes finish as the runner-up at the A-10 Championships.

Everhart is the third-straight student-athlete from the the swimming and diving program to be awarded the A-10 Postgraduate Scholarship. She joins Kirsten Hillsley (2019) and Lexi Santer (2018), who were the past two recipients of the scholarships from Duquesne.
 
The class of scholarships recipients represents eight different sports with an average GPA of 3.72. The selection process involves the league's athletic directors, senior woman administrators and faculty athletic representatives.

In each of the last six postgraduate classes, the average GPA of the honorees for the Postgraduate Scholarship Program has been 3.70 or higher. The program, which began honoring two student-athletes in 1991, has been so successful and well-received by both the recipients and the A-10 member institutions that it has expanded several times. The most recent expansion, which was adopted in January of 2015 and implemented that spring, now includes one representative from each A-10 school.
 
To be considered for the Postgraduate Scholarship, student-athletes must have performed with distinction both in the classroom and in their respective sports throughout their career, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community. The postgraduate program expanded to four recipients in 1997 and then grew to 10 in 2014.
 
2022 Postgraduate Scholarship Honorees