LOGAN, Utah-Late Tuesday, Utah State track and field/cross country athlete Tylee Newman-Skinner was awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship per an official report from the NCAA.
All NCAA postgraduate scholarship winners will receive a one-time grant of $7,500.
To qualify for this prestigious award, student-athletes must be in their final year of athletic eligibility and plan to pursue graduate studies within the next three years.
While they must maintain a minimum of a 3.2 GPA, they must also “perform with distinction” in their sport and be nominated by their institution’s faculty athletics representative.
Newman-Skinner was the lone female representative from the Mountain West Conference to gain this award.
Utah softball assistant coach Hannah Flippen also received this distinction from the NCAA.
Newman-Skinner graduated from USU this past May with a degree in special education and has one more year of eligibility left in cross country. She plans to start work on a master’s degree in occupational therapy in August 2019.
The Monteview, Idaho native is an eight-time academic all-Mountain West recipient in both cross country and track and field during her career with the Aggies.
She has also earned conference scholar-athlete accolades five different times in the past.
Newman-Skinner also spent time as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Mississippi Jackson Mission from 2013-2014.
