INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Kenyon College's already impressive list of National Collegiate Athletic Association Postgraduate Scholarship winners continued to flourish after recent graduates Anna Connolly, Ian Stewart-Bates, and Curtis Ramsey were named among the 58 winter sports recipients. Selected from a pool that spanned all three NCAA divisions, each scholarship winner receives a one-time, nonrenewable grant of $7,500.

All three Kenyon recipients were members of the swimming program. With the addition of Connolly, the Ladies program now has 25 scholarship winners, while the addition of Stewart-Bates and Ramsey gives the Lords 26 winners. Since the NCAA began the postgraduate program 49 years ago, a total of 61 Kenyon student-athletes have been awarded scholarships. That total ranks second among all NCAA Division III institutions.

Connolly, who majored in psychology and minored in biology, cranked out a 3.75 cumulative grade point average. In the pool, she was a four-year qualifier for the NCAA Championship. She collected 19 career All-America awards and posted seven, top-five finishes in national championship races.

On the men's side, Stewart-Bates was a 23-time All-America award-winner. At the 2013 NCAA Championship alone, he collected the maximum seven All-America awards and won four events, including a title-winning swim in the 100-yard freestyle. Overall, Stewart-Bates earned eight career national event titles and never finished lower then tenth place in an NCAA race. A classics major with minors in biology and Russian, Stewart-Bates graduated with a 3.49 grade point average. He was also selected as one of Kenyon's 2013 Senior Athletes of the Year.

Ramsey, like Stewart-Bates, was a sprint specialist. At the 2013 North Coast Athletic Conference Championship, he won five events and was crowned the Swimmer of the Year. At the national level, Ramsey racked up 15 All-America awards and won a total of five career NCAA titles. At the 2013 NCAA Championship he claimed national titles as a part of the Lords' 200-yard freestyle and 400-yard freestyle relay teams. He was named Kenyon's Falkenstine Award recipient and is the running for his second consecutive Capital One Academic All-America honor. Ramsey majored in economics, minored in physics, and graduated with a 3.91 grade point average.

Created in 1964, the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship program was launched to promote and encourage postgraduate education by rewarding the most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.