Tulsa’s Kirk Smith Receives Commissioner’s Postgraduate Leadership Award
3/7/2017 1:16:00 PM | Track and Field
The University of Tulsa cross country & track student-athlete Kirk Smith was unanimously chosen as the male winner of the Commissioner's Postgraduate Leadership Award by the American Athletic Conference Academic Affairs Committee, Commissioner Mike Aresco announced today.
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.
Cincinnati's Juliana Madzia, also a cross country/track and field standout, was named the female winner.
Smith and Madzia will each receive a $5,000 scholarship, which may be applied to postgraduate study.
Smith, who hails from St. Louis, Mo., is a Rhodes Scholar who holds a 4.00 grade-point average in mechanical engineering. He has been a member of four conference-championship teams in cross country - three in the American Athletic Conference and one in Conference USA – and was a part of two indoor track and field teams that registered runner-up finishes at The American Championships.
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