Swimming: Delic Earns Postgraduate Scholarship
February 07, 2008 03:15 PM | General
By Kelly Tuckwiller for MSNsportsNET.com
February 7, 2008
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University men’s senior swimmer Nick Delic has been recognized as a 2007-08 BIG EAST/Aéropostale Institutional Male Scholar-Athlete award winner, providing him with $2,000 toward graduate studies.
Delic, a Split, Croatia, native, earned his first All-American honors as a member of the seventh place 200 free relay squad last season at the NCAA Championships. He also earned honorable mention All-America honors, contributing to the 11th place 400 free relay team, the 16th place 200 medley team and the 16th place 400 medley team. Just a year earlier, Delic earned honorable mention All-America honors in the 100 breaststroke with his 13th place finish at the 2006 NCAA Championships in Atlanta. Delic owns eight school records, three Natatorium records and three BIG EAST records in both individual and relay events.
The BIG EAST/Aéropostale Scholar-Athlete Awards were established to recognize student-athletes who have achieved success in the classroom and on the field. Aéropostale sponsors all of the conference’s academic awards for graduate or professional school studies and has provided apparel items to all participants at men’s and women’s BIG EAST Championship events.
Selections were made by the BIG EAST's Academic Affairs Committee, who named Pitt’s All-American diver Jeremy Stultz as the BIG EAST Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year, giving him a $4,000 scholarship.
Delic along with the rest of the Mountaineer squad will head to the Nassau County Aquatic Center, in East Meadow, N.Y., for the BIG EAST Championships. Last season the Mountaineer men’s swimming and diving team captured first place for the first time in school history.
