Tulsa Rower Emalia Seto Awarded the Jim McKay Scholarship by the NCAA

The University of Tulsa rower Emalia Seto (M-ah-lia See-toe) was selected as the female recipient of the NCAA's 2016 Jim McKay Scholarship, it was announced today by the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA).

The Jim McKay Scholarship Program was established in 2008 to honor one of the most prominent figures in sports journalism. Annually, one female and one male student-athlete are awarded a one-time $10,000 Jim McKay Scholarship for outstanding academic performance and are encouraged to pursue a career in the sports communication industry.

Seto, from El Dorado Hills, California, has maintained a 3.617 grade point average in Communication with a minor in sociology, while earning four letters with the Golden Hurricane rowing team. She has competed in 32 career regattas, including all seven events this season. Seto has raced in the Lightweight 2X, Varsity 4X, Lightweight 4+ and Lightweight 8+ this season. In 2013, she represented the United States for the Under 23 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria.

The senior earned academic honors from the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) as a sophomore and added scholar-athlete recognition by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) a year ago as a junior.

Seto will join the Edelman public relations firm in Los Angeles following her graduation in May. She also has been accepted to the master's program for strategic communications at the University of San Francisco for 2017.

She hopes to eventually work in communications for a university athletics department or for an athletics team. Seto already has some real-world communications experience as a news intern at an ABC television station (KTUL) in Tulsa, Oklahoma; as a writing intern at the public relations firm Sharpshooter Communications; and as a communications intern at WPX Energy. This spring, she has an internship at Saxum, a marketing communications agency.

Jim McKay was an American television sports journalist, who was best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961-1998). He was also known for television coverage of 12 Olympic Games, and was universally respected for his memorable reporting on the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. McKay covered a wide variety of special events, including horse races such as the Kentucky Derby, golf events such as the British Open, and the Indianapolis 500.

Tulsa Rower Emalia Seto Awarded the Jim McKay Scholarship by the NCAA

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