Casey Brown (left) and Anna Molloy (right) are this year’s postgraduate scholarship recipients.
Golden Bears To Receive $10,000 Each Toward Postgraduate Studies
Golden Bears Casey Brown of California women’s gymnastics and Anna Molloy of women’s golf are the winners of the annual Oscar and Theodore Geballe Postgraduate Scholarship – recognized for their combination of excellence in both academics and athletic competition. Brown and Molloy will each be awarded a $10,000 stipend for their postgraduate studies.
The Oscar and Theodore Geballe Award was created through the generosity of Dr. Theodore Geballe to honor his father, Oscar Geballe, and recognizes his strong belief in the value of combining scholarship and intercollegiate athletic competition. There have now been 110 Geballe Award winners since 1981.
Brown graduated from Cal earlier this month with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering science and bioengineering. She was an immediate contributor to the women’s gymnastics team, competing 13 vaults during her freshman campaign. As a sophomore, she competed seven vaults and two uneven bars routines to help Cal achieve its highest team finish in history as the NCAA runners-up. She became a mainstay in the uneven bars lineup as a junior, tallying five podium finishes. Brown capped her collegiate career with a stellar senior season, regularly competing on vault, uneven bars and floor and hitting on all 41 routines she competed throughout the season. She compiled seven podium finishes and was named to the ACC All-Championship vault team with her fourth-place finish at the conference championship.
In the classroom, Brown was a model student-athlete whose academic success was recognized with 2026 All-ACC Academic honors, multiple WCGA Scholastic All-American recognitions and as Cal’s recipient of the prestigious Anna Espenschade Award for being the top graduating female student-athlete in the class of 2026. She also founded the Berkeley Engineering Athlete Network, which created a mentorship structure connecting younger student-athletes at Cal with upperclassmen in engineering to foster a support system of peers balancing the academic demands of the engineering degrees at UC Berkeley with competitive Division 1 athletics. This fall, Brown will continue her…
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