ST LOUIS, Mo. – Men's track and field student-athlete Ian Alberts has been named a 2021 Missouri Valley Conference postgraduate scholarship winner as announced by the league.

The Missouri Valley Conference Faculty Athletics Representatives Committee voted to award postgraduate scholarships to a total of four student-athletes, due to their exemplary academic and athletic performances.  Each will receive a $5,000 postgraduate scholarship from the Conference.

The Freeburg, Ill. native made the Dean's list in seven semesters in his time at the University of Evansville. The biology major has record a 4.0 grade point average, while earning MVC Scholar-Athlete recognition. A valued member of the UE track and field team, Alberts holds the program record in indoor and outdoor pole vault.

Alberts has served the community numerous times at local middle and high school cross country and track and field events. He also participated in the UE Barn Blitz to benefit Habitat for Humanity and took part in the Aces Holiday Reading Program where he read books to local Evansville elementary schools. Alberts has been accepted to Southern Illinois University medical school.

To be eligible for consideration, recipients must have achieved a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.40, participated with distinction in a Missouri Valley Conference championship sport for at least two seasons at the nominating institution and must graduate from their institutions within 18 months following selection at the spring meetings of the Faculty Athletics Representative Committee.
Also, the recipients must be accepted for postgraduate studies at an institution of higher learning at the time of receipt of the scholarship. And, the recipients must have completed eligibility for participation in intercollegiate athletics in the academic year in which nominated.

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