Illinois State senior runner Paul Steeno and Missouri State senior baseball player Alex Jefferson, a Normal West High School graduate, were among four student-athletes named as Missouri Valley Conference postgraduate scholarship winners, Commissioner Doug Elgin announced Friday.
Each will receive a $5,000 postgraduate scholarship from the conference. They were joined by Elena Danielson of Bradley (women's cross country) and Kimberly Nebo of Southern Illinois (women's basketball).
Steeno has a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade point average while majoring in journalism and competing on the cross country and track & field teams for ISU. He made the league's Academic Honor Roll in each of his four seasons, was a three-time Commissioner's Academic Excellence honoree and earned the MVC's President's Council Academic Excellence Award this spring.