INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Augustana College’s Charlotte Newport ’25 (Baytown, Texas/Ross S. Sterling) is among 21 female recipients of a 2024-25 Spring National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Postgraduate Scholarship. Newport is the 44th recipient of the award at Augustana and the first since 2023. She is also the first female to earn this scholarship for Augustana since 2017.
The NCAA awards up to 126 postgraduate scholarships annually. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are at least in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition. Each sports season there are 21 scholarships available for men and 21 scholarships available for women for use in an accredited graduate program. The recipients range across all three NCAA divisions.
Newport receives a $10,000 scholarship for part-time or full-time graduate study at a university or professional school.
“I am incredibly grateful to receive this scholarship as it is a testament to my hard work as a student-athlete at Augustana,” said Newport. “I want to thank the NCAA for continuing to support me in my postgraduate studies. It is a true honor to be chosen out of so many amazing student-athletes.”
Newport will be attending the University of Texas School of Law to pursue a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree.
A full list of the spring 2025 postgraduate scholarship female winners will be posted on the NCAA website, NCAA.org.
A four-year letter winner in women’s water polo, Newport wrapped up her illustrious career with the Vikings as the current school record holder in assists and is second all-time in steals and goals. She also appears 13 times in the single-season record book in various categories and departs Augustana as a three-time Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) Division III All-America recipient (2025, 2023 – Second Team; 2024 – Honorable Mention) and three-time All-Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) selection (2025, 2024- First Team; 2023 – West Region First Team). A three-time CWPA Championship All-Tournament honoree (2025, 2024, 2023 – First Team), she was named a 2024 Collegiate Sports Communicators (CSC) Division III Academic All-America Second Team awardee and is on the national ballot for the honor again this year.
About the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Program
The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was created in 1964 to promote and encourage graduate education by rewarding the Association’s most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports. Athletics and academic achievements, campus involvement, community service, volunteer activities and demonstrated leadership are evaluated. An equitable approach is employed in reviewing an applicant’s nomination form to provide all student-athlete nominees an opportunity to receive the graduate award, regardless of sport, division, gender or race. In maintaining the highest broad-based standards in the selection process, the program aims to reward those individuals whose dedication and effort are reflective of those characteristics necessary to succeed and thrive through graduate study.
