2004-05 Remington Scholars Named
June 29, 2005 | Women's Rowing
For the first time in its 10-year existence three student-athletes have been honored as the Frank J. Remington Scholars at the University of Wisconsin for the 2004-05 school year. The recipients are the male and female student-athletes who graduate with the highest grade-point averages in their class.
Leah Gordon (Wausau, Wis.), a senior member of the women's openweight rowing team, graduated in 2005 with a bachelor of science degree after double-majoring in psychology and biology. She earned a prefect 4.0 cumulative grade-point average as an undergraduate. Gordon will begin medical school at Wisconsin in the fall of 2005.
Also finishing her collegiate career with a perfect, 4.0 grade point average, senior track and field athlete, Yael Paled (Hertzlia, Israel) was also recognized as a Remington Scholar for 2004-05. Paled graduated in May of 2005 with a bachelor of science degree in computer science. She has accepted a job to work for computer giant, Microsoft in Seattle as a software engineer.
Finally, Micheal Triebwasser (Loveland, Ohio) of the men's rowing team was named a Remington Scholar with a grade point average of 3.90. He finished his undergraduate studies in molecular biology and plans to continue his studies at Oxford University in England. Working for his masters degree in bioinformatics at Oxford, Triebwasser will return to the U.S. in September of 2006 to enroll in Washington University in St. Louis. The National Institute of Health has granted him full funding to work in the M.D.-PhD program.
The Remington Scholars program provides $1,000 scholarships to the recipients, providing they enter a post-graduate program within one year of graduation. The Remington program, which was established by the Athletic Board in 1997, honors the memory of Prof. Frank J. Remington who died in 1996. His distinguished career at the University included serving as a Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA, the Big Ten Conference and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). He was a longtime member, and chairman, of the NCAA Committee on infractions.
Throughout his work within athletics, Remington stressed the primacy of high academic standards. As a result, the Remington Scholars program was developed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation by family and friends.
