Three-time track & field All-American Eddie Papalia '05 has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship for the highest level of academic and athletic achievement in a college career. The lone recipient from the Centennial Conference this year, Papalia is the 16th Haverford College student-athete overall — and ninth Haverfordian in the last nine years — to receive this prestigious award.
Three-time track & field All-American Eddie Papalia '05 has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship for the highest level of academic and athletic achievement in a college career. The lone recipient from the Centennial Conference this year, Papalia is the 16th Haverford College student-athete overall — and ninth Haverfordian in the last nine years — to receive this prestigious award.
Papalia was one of only eight Division III men selected in the spring competition for NCAA Postgraduate Scholars, and one of only three from the selective liberal arts colleges. He completed his stellar career in track and field with a third-place finish in the 800 meters at the NCAA Championships in May. He earned his other All-America honors by finishing seventh in the 800 meters at the 2003 outdoor championships and by placing fifth in the indoor DMR in 2005. He also won four Centennial Conference championships in his career.
Selected also as a Third Team Academic All-American this spring, Papalia was an economics major at Haverford and will be attending the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University in the fall. His senior thesis, advised by Professor Anne Preston, explored a sulfur dioxide emission allowance program developed in 1995. He investigated whether the electricity generating firms affected "banked" their allowances efficiently.
This was also a record spring for Haverford with three other national NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship finalists, Brandon Mills (baseball), Carl Lederman (tennis) and Tom Reynolds (soccer, track & field).
The NCAA awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships of $7,500 each to 29 men and 29 women who participated in spring sports, which include baseball, equestrian, men's and women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, women's rowing, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's outdoor track and field, men's volleyball and women's water polo. To qualify for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, a student-athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.200 (on a 4.000 scale) or its equivalent, and must have performed with distinction as a member of the varsity team in the sport in which the student-athlete was nominated.
