PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Commissioner Mike Aresco has announced that Tulsa’s Kirk Smith and Cincinnati’s Juliana Madzia, a pair of cross country/track and field standouts, have been unanimously chosen as the winners of the Commissioner’s Postgraduate Leadership Awards by the American Athletic Conference Academic Affairs Committee.
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.