SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Southern Conference announced its ten postgraduate scholarship recipients for the 2020-21 academic year Wednesday. Wofford College student-athletes Megan Dunn, Omar Williams and Grant Wollam earned three of the ten available scholarships. 
 
This year's honorees include: Dave Hart Scholarship recipient Grant Wollam (Wofford); Dorothy Hicks Scholarship recipient Allie Jones (Mercer); Insurance Office of America Scholarship recipient Emma Kuntz (Furman); David Knight Scholarship recipient Kaley Tucker (UNC Greensboro); Bob McCloskey Insurance Scholarship recipients Megan Dunn (Wofford) and Omar Williams (Wofford); William V. Moore Scholarship presented by McMillan Pazdan Smith recipient Victoria Solheim (Western Carolina); and Southern Conference Presidential Scholarship recipients Avery Whitehead (Furman), Maria Esch (UNCG) and Caroline Orman (Samford).
 
The recipients are nominated by their schools and selected by the Southern Conference Graduate Scholar Committee. The scholarships, worth $2,000 each, are awarded to student-athletes about to receive their undergraduate degrees who intend to pursue advanced degrees in graduate or professional school. The student-athletes are evaluated on academics, athletics and community service.
 
Megan Dunn is one of two recipients of a Bob McCloskey Insurance Scholarship. A multi athlete for the Terriers' track and field team, Dunn is a three-time SoCon champion, winning the pentathlon during the 2020 and 2021 indoor seasons and the heptathlon during the 2021 outdoor season. Prior to that, she was the runner-up in the pentathlon in 2018 and in the javelin and heptathlon in 2019. She holds program records in both the pentathlon and javelin.
 
A biology major with a 3.93 GPA, Dunn, who has spent 340 hours working as an optometric assistant, will attend the three-year accelerated scholars program at Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University beginning in July. The native of Dorchester, Ontario, Canada, has twice been named to the Academic All-SoCon team and has earned SoCon Commissioner's Medals three times. She earned the W. Raymond Leonard Endowed Scholarship and the Dobb's Scholarship from the Wofford Biology Department. Dunn has served as an assistant coach for the London Western Track and Field Club in Ontario, for which she competed in high school, as well as serving as a high school coach.
 
Omar Williams is one of two recipients of a Bob McCloskey Insurance Scholarship. A four-year letterman on the men's tennis team, Williams worked his way up the lineup to play in the No. 1 singles spot this season. Williams, who named to the All-Freshman team in 2018 and in 2021, was named First-Team All-Conference this season in addition to being the February athlete of the month and a two-time player of the week.
 
The native of Spartanburg, South Carolina, is a three-time recipient of the SoCon Academic Honor Roll and has been named to the SoCon Academic Team twice. He was a Dean's List recipient in 2020. Williams has been the men's tennis team representative on Wofford's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for the last two years and has assisted in service projects. An accounting major and finance minor, Williams plans to attend Clemson's School of Accountancy and work towards the CPA exam.
 
Grant Wollam is the 2021 recipient of the Dave Hart Scholarship. A goalkeeper for the Terriers, Wollam made consecutive starts this spring, against defending 2019 SoCon tournament champion Mercer and eventual 2020-21 tournament champion UNCG, allowing four goals and making 11 saves in the two contests for a seasonal .733 save percentage and 2.00 GAA. For his career, Wollam has posted a .711 save percentage and a 2.04 goals-against average over 15 games and 12 starts.
 
A physics and finance double-major with a 3.74 GPA, Wollam has been a team representative for Wofford's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee since 2019. In 2020, Wollam became a Gift of Life Donor, donating stem cells to a stranger with similar DNA who needed a transplant to overcome leukemia and then providing a second donation months later. Wollam helped organize an outreach event that brought around 100 elementary school children to Wofford's campus to experience being a "college" student for a day, also helping develop physics demonstrations for the presentation. With the skills learned in one of his classes, Wollam and a classmate invented, designed, manufactured and now sell products designed for students charging their phones. The Leesburg, Georgia, native plans to pursue a master's degree in electrical engineering and hopes to one day own his own engineering company to help create a cleaner planet.