IWU’s Dauksas Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Illinois Wesleyan senior men’s basketball player Adam Dauksas is one of 58 student-athletes who participated in winter sports to be awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship.
Dauksas (Homewood, Ill., Homewood-Flossmoor HS), who graduated from IWU on April 30 with a 3.52 grade-point average and a degree in risk management, is one of 11 men chosen from Division III schools and one of eight male basketball players.
Named on two first team All-America squads postseason this winter, Dauksas is IWU's career assist record holder with 579 and set the single-season mark of 204 this winter. He ranks 10th in school history with 1,475 points and fourth with 208 3-pointers.
The NCAA awards postgraduate scholarships of $7,500 each to 29 male and 29 female student-athletes who participated in winter sports, which included women’s archery, basketball, women's bowling, fencing, gymnastics, ice hockey, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, indoor track and field, and wrestling and the emerging women’s sports of squash, synchronized swimming, and team handball.
In addition to the winter sport honorees, the NCAA awards 118 postgraduate scholarships to student-athletes participating in fall and spring sports in which the NCAA conducts championships or participates in as an emerging sport, for a total of 174 postgraduate scholarships annually.
To qualify for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, a student-athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.2 (on a 4.0 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. The student-athlete must have behaved, both on and off the field, in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics.
The student-athlete also must intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time or part-time graduate student.
Nominations are made by each school’s faculty athletics representatives and selections are made three times each academic year. Candidates are screened by seven regional selection committees and the award recipients are selected by the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.