Avery Brundage Scholarship Information

CHICAGO -- UIC women's swimmer Danel Voorhees has been awarded the University of Illinois' Avery Brundage Scholarship for excellence in academics and athletics. Voorhees, a junior from Dunlap, Ill., is one of four UIC recipients who will receive a $2,500 award for the 2015-16 academic year.

Voorhees owns a 3.61 grade-point-average as a Movement Sciences major. She broke the program record for the 100 fly this past season with a time of 55.20, which ranked as the top mark in the Horizon League. Voorhees has placed second in the 100 fly at the Horizon League Championships the last two years.

The Avery Brundage Scholarship Fund Committee is composed of nine representatives from the faculties and student bodies of the Chicago, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign campuses. The committee selects students from each U of I campus who engage in athletics for personal development, not as preparation for professional sports.

Students must demonstrate "special athletic ability" in an amateur sport. In addition, the students must be working toward bachelors, masters or doctoral degrees at the U of I and must be in the upper 25 percent of their undergraduate class or in good academic standing in their graduate program.

Avery Brundage, a 1909 U of I graduate, competed in the 1912 Olympics and later was president of the U.S. and International Olympic committees. He established the scholarship in 1974, with a $343,000 endowment to the U of I Foundation.