Tulsa’s Hannah Emnett Earns Commissioner’s Postgraduate Leadership Award

American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco announced that former Tulsa rower Hannah Emnett has been chosen as the 2015-16 winners of the Commissioner's Postgraduate Leadership Award, as voted on by The American Academic Affairs Committee.

The awards are given to one male and one female student-athlete from an American Athletic Conference-sponsored sport who have been admitted to a degree-granting or professional program for the following year and who have demonstrated leadership through excellence in academic credentials, athletic performance and depth of commitment to service within the institution or the community.

Emnett will each receive a $5,000 scholarship, which may be applied to postgraduate study.

Emnett, a native of Imperial, Missouri, graduated from Tulsa with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and will pursue a doctorate in that discipline at Northwestern. She is a two-time all-conference second team selection who has helped Tulsa to back-to-back second-place finishes at the American Athletic Conference Championships. She rowed in the Golden Hurricane's Varsity 8+, which took second in 2016, and in the Varsity 4+, which was the 2015 runner-up.

Emnett won the Sidney Bom Award for outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering and was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2016. Her extensive community service outreach includes volunteering with the Little Lighthouse Community, the Oklahoma Food Bank, Habitat for Humanity and Meals of Love.

Tulsa’s Hannah Emnett Earns Commissioner’s Postgraduate Leadership Award

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