Four Yellow Jackets Named ACC Postgraduate Scholars – Athletics — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech student-athletes McKenzie Campbell (swimming and diving), Connor Howe (golf), Emma Kauf (softball) and Dylan Leonard (football) have been named 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Postgraduate Scholarship Award recipients, the ACC office announced on Friday.

The ACC’s postgraduate scholarship award recipients are selected for having performed with distinction both in the classroom and in their respective sport, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community. Campbell, Kauf and Leonard will all receive $6,000 Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Scholarships towards their postgraduate education following the conclusion of their respective collegiate playing careers. Howe is one of 11 honorary recipients who plan to pursue professional careers in their chosen sports rather than enter postgraduate studies.

Campbell carries a 4.0 grade point average as an industrial and systems engineering major and is a five-time NCAA Championships qualifier. Georgia Tech’s record-holder in the women’s 200-yard butterfly, Campbell represented the Yellow Jackets at the 2021 NCAA Championships in the 50-yard freestyle and 200 fly, and at the 2022 NCAA Championships in the 200 fly, 200 individual medley and 400 IM. In addition to holding the school record in the women’s 200 fly, the Greensboro, N.C. native owns the second-best time in Tech history in the women’s 200 IM. In recognition of her success in the pool and the classroom, she has previously been named a College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America scholar all-American and a member of the all-ACC academic team.

Howe was an all-ACC performer on the course in 2022 and is a two-time member of the conference’s academic honor roll as a business administration (finance) major. The Ogden, Utah native has been a key figure in Georgia Tech advancing to the NCAA Championship in three of his four years on The Flats (the 2020 event was not held due to Covid-19), and in the Jackets winning the ACC Championship in 2019 and finishing as the runner-up in 2022. He has played 128 rounds of golf in 42 events as a Yellow Jacket, finishing in the top 10 six times and compiling a 72.05 stroke average. His top finish has been a tie for third place at the 2022 Maui Jim Intercollegiate, and he earned a seventh-place finish at the 2022 NCAA Columbus Regional and a ninth-place showing at the 2021 ACC Championship. On the amateur circuit, Howe won the 2021 Patriot…