Swimming: Shippensburg's Theresa Simcic Honored With Prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Shippensburg University women’s swimming senior Theresa Simcic was honored Monday with an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, becoming just the fifth student-athlete in school history to achieve this honor
average. With her post-graduate scholarship, Kepler studied through 1998 at the University of Southern California and received a Ph.D. in organosilicon polymer chemistry. She recently served as an assistant professor at Bloomsburg University.
Jim Saxton ’79 thrived as a men’s swimmer for Shippensburg, and like Totedo, he later received a justice degree from Duquesne in 1982. Saxton has specialized in medical litigation for the past 27 years and currently works as a legal professional for the Lancaster branch of Stevens & Lee, a Pennsylvania-based firm. He is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the oldest professional medical organization in the United States.
Dr. Tony Winter ’76 was Shippensburg’s first recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He went on to earn an MBA at Arizona State University where he also was a graduate assistant football coach. In January, Winter accepted a position on campus as the interim executive director of the Institute for Public Service and Sponsored Programs after serving nine years as the associate dean and the director of the Business Intern Program for the John L. Grove College of Business.
The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was created in 1964 to promote and encourage postgraduate education by rewarding the Association’s most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports.
