IRVING, Texas – Recent Charlotte softball standout Lexi Betancourt has been chosen as the 49ers’ recipient of the 2016 Jim Castañeda Postgraduate Scholarship Award as announced by Conference USA Monday afternoon. Each of the 14 member schools had one student-athlete selected as their institution’s winner of the scholarship, which annually awards a $4,000 postgraduate scholarship as selected by the C-USA Faculty Athletics Representatives and approved by the Board of Directors.
Betancourt, a Garner, North Carolina, native, completed her athletic eligibility with the 49ers this spring and earned her undergraduate degree in exercise science with a 3.