The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholarship has been presented by the Southeastern Conference since 1986 to the league’s top male and female scholar-athletes.
Georgia senior tight end Jackson Harris was nominated this year. The Columbia, Tennessee native played in nine games for the Dawgs this season. He was named as a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, which goes annually to the nation’s top football scholar-athlete. A Mechanical Engineering major, Harris was the winner of the Senior Scholar Award at the team’s post-season awards gala.
This year’s winners were Texas A&M track and field member Nathan Hite and Vanderbilt bowler Kristin Quah. Each year, the SEC, in conjunction with sponsor AT&T, provides the league’s male and female McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Scholarship recipients with a $20,000 post-graduate scholarship. The 26 remaining male and female finalists for the award receive a $10,000 post-graduate scholarship. Swimmer Maddie Locus was the last Bulldog winner, when she was honored in 2015.
The award recipients are chosen by a committee of Faculty Athletics Representatives from the 14 SEC institutions and are honored at the SEC Spring Meetings in Sandestin, Florida, in early June.
