Missouri-Kansas City volleyball player and team captain Sydney Crimmins was recently awarded the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, given to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.
The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was developed in order to promote postgraduate education in NCAA student-athletes. The student-athlete must be nominated for this scholarship by a faculty athletics representative from their institution. Additionally, the student-athlete must submit a personal statement, letters of recommendation from their personal athletic, academic, and leadership mentors, and have maintained at least a 3.2 GPA through their undergraduate coursework.
Crimmins posted the third-best single season hitting percentage (.328) in program history in 2015, was named to the Top 30 for the Senior C.L.A.S.S Award and was named to three all-tournament teams. Crimmins finished her time as a member of the UMKC volleyball team with 117 consecutive matches played to tie a school record. She was a first team All-WAC selection in 2014 and was twice named second team All-WAC (2013, 2015).
In addition to Crimmins' athletic accomplishments, she maintains a 4.0 GPA in her public administration graduate program with an emphasis in health sciences. She plans to use this program as a foundation for a future career in hospital administration. Crimmins graduated Magna Cum Laude with a 3.9 GPA, maintained membership on the Dean's List and was a two-time Academic All-WAC honoree.
Crimmins was the WAC's representative on the Division I National Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), served as vice president of the WAC SAAC and vice president for UMKC SAAC. In the community, Crimmins has interned for Kansas City Sports Commission and WIN for KC, in addition to volunteering for multiple campus and Kansas City area programs to benefit others, a few of which include Walk-A-Mile for UMKC's women's center, Coaches vs. Cancer, Happy Bottoms Diaper Drive, and promoting ALS awareness with the ice bucket challenge.