2008-09 Postgraduate Scholarship Men’s Spring Sports Awardees
INDIANAPOLIS – Track & field standout
Tyler Kreitz (Hanover, Pa./New Oxford), a 2009 Gettysburg College graduate, has become the seventh student-athlete in school history to earn a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, it was recently announced.
Kreitz is one of just 29 male spring student-athletes across all three NCAA divisions to capture the award – a one-time grant of $7,500. He is the second track & field athlete in as many years to win the scholarship, joining
Jane D’Addario ’08 of the women’s team, but is the first-ever men’s track & field athlete at Gettysburg to come away with the honor.
Gettysburg has now had a student-athlete win a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in each of the past three years, starting with
John Fairhurst ’07 of the men’s lacrosse team in 2007. Six of the school’s seven winners have come since 2003.
Last week, Kreitz was named as a CoSIDA Academic All-American, earning a spot on the College Division Cross Country/Track & Field Second Team.
Kreitz turned in another outstanding season as the Bullets top shot put and discus thrower this past season. For the second year in a row, he earned the bronze in both the shot put and discus at the Centennial Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships. He also qualified for the ECAC Division III Outdoor Championships in both events and placed seventh in the shot and 23rd in the discus. He recorded a personal-record (PR) throw of 49-9 1/4 in the shot put this season, a mark that ranks second on Gettysburg’s all-time outdoor list.
Indoors, Kreitz captured the silver in the shot put at the Centennial Conference Championships this past winter, and his PR of 49-3 also ranks second all-time in school history. He also placed fourth in the shot put at the ECAC Indoor Championships.
Kreitz helped Gettysburg finish fifth at the Centennial Conference Indoor Championships and fourth at the outdoor championships.
Off the track, Kreitz finished with a 3.89 grade-point average as a biochemistry and molecular biology major. He received Gettysburg’s Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award for the biochemistry senior with the highest GPA as well as the Dr. George W. Stoner Award, given to a graduating senior accepted into a recognized medical school. A member of Phi Betta Kappa, he will attend Georgetown University School of Medicine next year.
The NCAA awards up to 174 postgraduate scholarships annually, 87 for men and 87 for women. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.
