Tulsa's Caitlin Clancy Named Rhodes Scholarship Finalist
11/5/2009 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
Nov. 5, 2009
Tulsa, Okla. - Tulsa track and field senior Caitlin Clancy has been named a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, which is one of the world's most prestigious international fellowships.
A mechanical engineering major from Tucson, Ariz., Clancy also has distinguished herself as a student-athlete where she holds TU's top three outdoor and indoor marks in the pole vault for the Golden Hurricane women's track and field team.
Clancy recently was notified that she was a finalist, and she will interview with the Rhodes committee later this month in Los Angeles. The Rhodes Scholarship is recognized as the oldest and most prestigious international fellowship, which provides all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
Clancy holds the top three outdoor and indoor marks in the pole vault, including the outdoor school record of 3.70m and the indoor record of 3.55m. Clancy claimed third place at the 2009 C-USA Indoor Championships and Outdoor Championships in the same event.
She was named a 2009 Conference USA Academic Medalist and was named to the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll. Last year, she was named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America third team, as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Clancy picked up first team All-District VI honors earlier in the season.
Clancy received a 2009 Goldwater Scholarship, the premier award for recognizing students pursuing careers in science, mathematics and engineering. She has participated in the renowned Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge, which encourages original research by undergraduate students. She has been an active student leader for TU's Sustainable Energy for North East Asia (SENEA) Project, which has made several trips to northeast Asian communities to improve quality of life there. During her 2008 trip, she helped redesign a horizontal axis wind turbine, planned and maintained a biogas digester, conducted rectangular hollow section beam testing and investigated the influence of soil additives. She presented her research at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 3rd International Conference on Energy and Sustainability in San Francisco.
She recently was selected as an Outstanding Senior by the TU Alumni Association for Homecoming 2009.
