Tulane's Brianne Darragh Earns C-USA Postgraduate Scholarship
Jun 27, 2006 | Cross Country & Track
June 27, 2006
NEW ORLEANS - Tulane senior Brianne Darragh, a three-year letterwinner in both indoor and outdoor women's track and field, has been named one of 12 winners of a $4,000 Postgraduate Scholarship from Conference USA, the league office announced Monday.
Selected by the league's faculty athletics representatives and presented to one student-athlete from each league institution, the postgraduate scholarships assist Conference USA student-athletes earn graduate degrees.
Darragh graduated from Tulane this spring with a double major in French and sociology, having achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.897. Although she could have graduated last year, she chose to return for her senior season of track and field where she was a thrower for the Green Wave team.
A recipient of the Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medal, she also received the Newcomb Alpha Epsilon Phi Romance Languages Scholar Award, the French Government Book Award and the 2006 Newcomb Oak Wreath.
"Brianne is such a well-rounded student-athlete who loves track and field," said Tulane head coach Heather Van Norman. "She is a graduate, a role model, and is very involved in the community. She takes all three aspects to another level. She stayed here in town during Spring Break and gutted houses and is involved with Habitat for Humanity. I am very excited for her; she is so deserving of this honor."
After coming to Tulane from Blue Bell, Pa. and Wissahickon High School in the Philadelphia area, Darragh is returning home to begin a job as a hedge funds portfolio accounting analyst for an investment firm. She will begin work toward an MBA.
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