INDIANAPOLIS – UIndy student-athlete Mickayla Wenzel was named one of two recipients of the inaugural Great Lakes Valley Conference Postgraduate Scholarship, announced this week. The GLVC Postgraduate Scholarship is awarded to one male and one female each year in the amount of $2,500 each to be used in the first year of post-graduate enrollment at the institution of their choice.
 
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A standout on both the Greyhound cross country and track & field teams, Wenzel garnered school, conference and NCAA merits throughout her four-year career. In 2016, she was picked as the cross country Kelso Reid Mental Attitude Award Winner and followed in the spring of 2017 with identical recognition for track & field. In the same cross country season, she won Most Improved before being named the team MVP the very next year. This past cross country campaign, her accolades continued to pile up, as she was a team captain and earned All-GLVC for finishing eighth at the Championship event as well as NCAA All-Region for placing 12th in the regional race. Most recently, the distance runner won first-team All-GLVC indoor and outdoor track honors, respectively, winning the distance medley relay and the 1,500-meter run in a provisional qualifying time of 4:33.87. She's also part of the foursome that holds the school's DMR record (12:14.80) that was set earlier in the year.
 
In the classroom, the product of Francesville, Ind., is a two-time United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCA) All-Academic team member (2017 and 2018) and a three-time Academic All-GLVC honoree. She is also a member of the honors societies Alpha Chi and Phi Alpha Epsilon, was awarded the Strain Honors College Spring Term International Travel Grant, and is a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success. The senior also leads the UIndy chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. As a volunteer, Wenzel serves as a counselor for the Ark Christian Ministries summer camp each year and has also participated with Girls, Inc., where she teaches weekly lessons about finance.
 
Wenzel studied psychology and Spanish at UIndy and accumulated a near-perfect 3.977 GPA. She plans to pursue her Master's degree in speech-language pathology at Indiana University in the fall and aspires to work in a rural hospital with clients of all ages and disorders.

*Maryville University wrestling student-athlete Tyler Harrington received the inaugural male scholarship.