SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Southern Conference announced its ten postgraduate scholarship recipients for the 2022-23 academic year on Tuesday. Rylee Jorgensen from the Wofford women's track and field team and Callum Rendle from the Wofford men's tennis team were among the ten recipients.
 
This year's honorees include: David Knight Scholarship recipient Adam Beucler (Furman); Dave Hart Scholarship recipient Vladi Zander-Velloso (Mercer); Bob McCloskey Insurance Scholarship recipients Andrea Bailey (Samford) and Callum Rendle (Wofford); Dorothy Hicks Scholarship recipient Merritt Cahoon (Samford); William V. Moore Scholarship presented by McMillan Pazdan Smith recipient Caroline Nguyen (Furman); and Southern Conference Presidential Scholarship recipients Reynolds Lambert (Furman), Cassidy Dufour (VMI), Samantha Reele (Western Carolina) and Rylee Jorgensen (Wofford).
 
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.
 
Rylee Jorgensen is the recipient of a 2023 Southern Conference Presidential Scholarship. A member of the Terriers' indoor and outdoor track and field programs, Jorgensen is a three-time SoCon champion and the program record-holder in the 4x100-meter relay, helping Wofford to wins at the 2021, 2022 and 2023 SoCon Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She also earned podium finishes in the 4x400-meter relay at the 2020 SoCon Indoor Track and Field Championships and the long jump at the 2022 outdoor meet, finishing third in both events, and earned all-freshman honors in the long jump and triple jump at the 2020 indoor meet and the long jump, triple jump and 100-meter dash at the 2021 outdoor meet. She has helped Wofford to runner-up team finishes at the SoCon indoor and outdoor meets in 2021 and 2023, the Terriers' best-ever finishes.
 
A sociology and anthropology major, Jorgensen helped Wofford earn USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors in 2020 and 2022. The SoCon Academic Honor Roll and All-Academic selection earned Wofford's Department of Sociology and Anthropology Rising Star award, the C.C. Norton Sociology/Anthropology Endowed Scholarship and the Commitment to Sociological Imagination and Anthropological Perspective award in addition to earning Dean's List honors. The Maryville, Tennessee, native served as a student teacher at Cleveland Academy of Leadership and Roebuck Elementary School and serves as an after-school program volunteer at Cleveland Academic of Leadership. She also served as a website manager for Cleveland Academy of Leadership and helped facilitate Operation Christmas Child at Pine Street Elementary. Jorgensen has also consistently participated in social justice efforts at Wofford, notably within the Wofford Antiracist Coalition, a student-run activist organization. Jorgensen will pursue a master's degree in public policy with a focus on education policy from Vanderbilt in the fall.
 
Callum Rendle is one of two recipients of a Bob McCloskey Insurance Scholarship. A four-year starter for the Terriers, Rendle played at No. 1 doubles and No. 2 singles for the final three seasons of his career and paced Wofford in wins at 6-2 during the COVID-shortened 2020 season. The Berkshire, England, native, who served as a team captain in 2023, is a Wofford's Dean's List student and earned spots on the SoCon Academic Honor Roll and All-Academic Teams in addition to earning the SoCon Commissioner's Medal, awarded to those on the Honor Roll with at least a 3.8 cumulative GPA.
 
Rendle, who also earned ITA Scholar-Athlete honors, served as a member of Wofford's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and has tutored students in accounting principles, business finance, FSA, investments and real estate analysis. After serving as a research associate on the James Atkins Fund, a student-managed investment fund on Wofford's campus, Rendle was promoted to a portfolio manager for the fund, which is valued at about $400,000 and a portion of its returns are used to alleviate poverty in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Rendle also completed a real estate private equity summer internship with Asana Partners in Charlotte, North Carolina, and completed a finance analyst role at CEG in London in the summer of 2021. In the summer of 2020, Rendle started a small tennis coaching business. Rendle will begin work on a master's degree in finance at Vanderbilt in August.