August 11, 1998
TEMPE, Ariz. - Former Arizona State golfer Kellee Booth and tennis player Reka Cseresnyes have each been awarded $5,000-postgraduate scholarships by the NCAA, Senior Associate Athletic Director Betsy Mosher announced Tuesday.
The NCAA awards 174 postgraduate scholarships annually (87 for men, 87 for women) to student-athletes who have excelled academically and athletically and who are in their last year of athletics competition. The one-time grants may be used within a five-year period and cover tuition, books and room and board.
Selections are made three times each year, as former ASU football player Pat Tillman was awarded a scholarship last October. This marks the first time that Arizona State has fielded three postgraduate scholarship recipients in one academic year.
A four-time All-American, Booth graduated in May with a cumulative GPA of 3.55 in business management. During her four-year tenure at Arizona State, she was a four-time All-Pac-10 Conference selection, registered four top-10 NCAA Championship finishes and was a member of three national championship squads (1995, 1997, 1998). The 1997-98 Honda Award Winner for golf, Booth was named a First Team Academic All-American as a senior. During the 1997-98 season, she compiled a scoring average of 74.00, the sixth-lowest average in the nation. Booth finished third in the 1997-98 Final MasterCard Collegiate Golf Rankings. Booth is a native of Coto de Caza, Calif.
Cseresnyes (pronounced CHU-resh-KNEE-yes), the 1998 Sun Angel Female Student Athlete of the Year, graduated in May with a cumulative GPA of 3.38 in finance and supply chain management. She became the first four-time All-American in Sun Devil women's tennis history in 1997-98 and garnered first team All-Pac-10 and first-team academic all-conference acclaim. Cseresnyes was one of just four women's tennis players in the nation to garner All-American honors in each of the past four years. She was also the recipient of the 1998 Cissie Leary/ITA Award for Sportsmanship. The Sun Devils' 1997-98 captain completed the season with a 26-15 record, an 11-7 dual action slate and a No. 15-ranking. She helped guide ASU to its 10th straight NCAA tournament appearance. Cseresnyes is a native of Budapest, Hungary.