FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
S-81-02-03
Monday, March 17, 2003

Elizabethtown College Senior Mindy Nace Awarded NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College senior Mindy Nace (Thompsontown, PA/East Juniata) has been awarded an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship. Nace, a field hockey player for four years at Etown, is one of just 29 women who participated in fall sports nationwide across all NCAA Divisions to receive the exclusive award.

A biology and pre-medicine major at Elizabethtown College, Nace plans to further her studies at either the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, PA, or at the Jefferson College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, with a possible concentration in orthopedics and surgery.

Nace has served as an emergency ward waiting room volunteer at Lewistown (PA) Hospital, and she spent August 2001 on a self-organized and funded stay as a volunteer on a pediatrics ward at the Centro De Pediatria Albina R. De Patino in Cochabama, Bolivia, where she assisted residents in examinations, the administration of medications, and helped out wherever needed.

She spent the summer of 2002 in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Pittsburgh, PA, and she was selected to participate in the Penn State College of Medicine's Primary Care Scholars' Program in May of 2002. She was a Pennsylvania State University Life Sciences Consortium Fellow in the summer of 2001.

At Elizabethtown, she has served as the field hockey team's captain and Student Athlete Advisory Committee representative. She is also a member of both the Biology Club and the Medicus Club at Elizabethtown College, as well as a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, a national freshman honor society, and of Beta Beta Beta, a national biology honor society of which she is currently the secretary for Elizabethtown's chapter.

Nace is also an Elizabethtown College Scholar, a designation for which a student must have completed sixty credit hours and have a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or higher. Nace has also been a member of the National Field Hockey Coaches' Association (NFHCA) National Academic Squad and a three-time member of the Middle Atlantic Conferences' Academic Honor Roll.

In her four-year field hockey career, Nace, a forward, was twice named to the NFHCA All-South Atlantic Region Second Team, in 2000 and 2002, and she was also an All-Commonwealth Conference Second Team member in 2000 and 2002 as well. Through her four years, the field hockey team posted a 44-31 record, was nationally ranked for the better part of two seasons, and has now made the conference playoffs for three consecutive years.

Over the course of her field hockey career, she tallied 21 goals, 17 assists and 59 points, and she led the team in assists with eight in 2002.