Four Wolfpack Student-Athletes Earn ACC Postgraduate Recognition
2/28/2019 11:00:00 AM | Pack Athletics, Women's Soccer, Swimming
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Four NC State student-athletes have been named Atlantic Coast Conference postgraduate award recipients, as announced by the conference office on Thursday morning. Anton Ipsen, Hannah Moore and Sydney Wootten have been awarded the Weaver-James-Corrigan postgraduate scholarships, and Lindsay Morrow has earned the Weaver-James Corrigan Honorary Award.
Since the inception of the ACC postgraduate scholarship program, NC State has had more award winners than any other school in the league.
The Weaver-James-Corrigan and Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarships are awarded to selected student-athletes who intend to pursue a graduate degree following completion of their undergraduate requirements. Each recipient will receive $6,000 toward his or her graduate education. Those honored have performed with distinction in both the classroom and their respective sport, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community.
The student-athletes will be honored at the annual Cone Health ACC Postgraduate Scholarship Luncheon presented by ESPN on April 10. The luncheon will be hosted by the Nat Greene Kiwanis Club at the Sheraton Four Seasons Hotel Imperial Ballroom in Greensboro, N. C.
Anton Ipsen • Swimming • Industrial Engineering • Birkerød, Denmark
A 10-time All-American while at NC State, Ipsen capped off his Wolfpack career by becoming an individual national champion in the 1650 freestyle at the 2018 NCAA Championships. The Birkerød, Denmark native won nine ACC titles over the course of his career, with four of those wins coming during the 2017-18 season. He was named ACC Male Freshman of the Year in 2015 and qualified for the Olympic Games in 2016. Ipsen also excelled in the classroom, as he maintained a 4.0 GPA in industrial engineering and was named a CSCAA Scholar All-American and a member of the All-ACC Academic Team during each of his four years of competition with the Wolfpack. Following his successful senior season, he was named ACC Men's Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was honored as a 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-American.
Hannah Moore • Swimming • Nutrition Science • Cary, N.C.
Moore became an All-American in three events at the 2018 NCAA Championships, putting her total number of All-America honors at nine during her NC State career. The Cary, N.C. native took first in the 1650 freestyle at the 2018 ACC Championships and secured a pair of other top-three finishes at last season's conference meet. A program record holder in three events, Moore was a finalist in two events at the 2016 Olympic Trials and is a current member of the U.S. National Team. Boasting a 4.0 GPA in nutrition science, Moore was a three-time CSCAA Scholar All-American and was selected as a 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-American in 2018.
Sydney Wootten • Women's Soccer • Biological Sciences • San Diego, Calif.
Wootten was the Wolfpack's top goalkeeper from 2015-18, starting in 77 matches and playing a total of 6,790 minutes. Through her leadership and exemplary efforts on the field, she was an essential part of the program's turnaround back to national prominence. The women's soccer team has earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament the last three years, a feat that had not been accomplished since the 1994-96 seasons, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen twice (2016, '18). Her class was the first in 20 years to accumulate 40+ career wins, and just the second class in program history to make a pair of Sweet 16 appearances in their careers. She finished top-five all-time in career saves (302, 5th), shutouts (24, T3rd) and goals-against-average (1.27, 5th) in the Wolfpack record books, becoming the first goalkeeper to do so since 1993. Wootten, who currently owns a career 3.626 GPA in biological sciences, was additionally a two-time All-ACC Academic Team selection as a junior and senior.
Lindsay Morrow • Swimming • Nutrition Science • Evergreen, Colo.
Morrow owns top-10 program marks in three events for the Wolfpack. She qualified for the 2016 Olympic Trials and was a consistent scorer for NC State at the ACC Championships during her four seasons as a member of the Pack. Morrow has been named a CSCAA Scholar All-American three times in her career.
Since the inception of the ACC postgraduate scholarship program, NC State has had more award winners than any other school in the league.
The Weaver-James-Corrigan and Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarships are awarded to selected student-athletes who intend to pursue a graduate degree following completion of their undergraduate requirements. Each recipient will receive $6,000 toward his or her graduate education. Those honored have performed with distinction in both the classroom and their respective sport, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community.
The student-athletes will be honored at the annual Cone Health ACC Postgraduate Scholarship Luncheon presented by ESPN on April 10. The luncheon will be hosted by the Nat Greene Kiwanis Club at the Sheraton Four Seasons Hotel Imperial Ballroom in Greensboro, N. C.
Anton Ipsen • Swimming • Industrial Engineering • Birkerød, Denmark
A 10-time All-American while at NC State, Ipsen capped off his Wolfpack career by becoming an individual national champion in the 1650 freestyle at the 2018 NCAA Championships. The Birkerød, Denmark native won nine ACC titles over the course of his career, with four of those wins coming during the 2017-18 season. He was named ACC Male Freshman of the Year in 2015 and qualified for the Olympic Games in 2016. Ipsen also excelled in the classroom, as he maintained a 4.0 GPA in industrial engineering and was named a CSCAA Scholar All-American and a member of the All-ACC Academic Team during each of his four years of competition with the Wolfpack. Following his successful senior season, he was named ACC Men's Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was honored as a 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-American.
Hannah Moore • Swimming • Nutrition Science • Cary, N.C.
Moore became an All-American in three events at the 2018 NCAA Championships, putting her total number of All-America honors at nine during her NC State career. The Cary, N.C. native took first in the 1650 freestyle at the 2018 ACC Championships and secured a pair of other top-three finishes at last season's conference meet. A program record holder in three events, Moore was a finalist in two events at the 2016 Olympic Trials and is a current member of the U.S. National Team. Boasting a 4.0 GPA in nutrition science, Moore was a three-time CSCAA Scholar All-American and was selected as a 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-American in 2018.
Sydney Wootten • Women's Soccer • Biological Sciences • San Diego, Calif.
Wootten was the Wolfpack's top goalkeeper from 2015-18, starting in 77 matches and playing a total of 6,790 minutes. Through her leadership and exemplary efforts on the field, she was an essential part of the program's turnaround back to national prominence. The women's soccer team has earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament the last three years, a feat that had not been accomplished since the 1994-96 seasons, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen twice (2016, '18). Her class was the first in 20 years to accumulate 40+ career wins, and just the second class in program history to make a pair of Sweet 16 appearances in their careers. She finished top-five all-time in career saves (302, 5th), shutouts (24, T3rd) and goals-against-average (1.27, 5th) in the Wolfpack record books, becoming the first goalkeeper to do so since 1993. Wootten, who currently owns a career 3.626 GPA in biological sciences, was additionally a two-time All-ACC Academic Team selection as a junior and senior.
Lindsay Morrow • Swimming • Nutrition Science • Evergreen, Colo.
Morrow owns top-10 program marks in three events for the Wolfpack. She qualified for the 2016 Olympic Trials and was a consistent scorer for NC State at the ACC Championships during her four seasons as a member of the Pack. Morrow has been named a CSCAA Scholar All-American three times in her career.
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