BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (April 22, 2024) – Hayley Frank of the Missouri women’s basketball team and Davis Helmerich of the Tigers’ men’s track and field team have been nominated for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship by the University of Missouri.
The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship has been presented by the Southeastern Conference since 1986 to the league’s top male and female scholar-athletes.
The Southeastern Conference will name the 2024 recipients of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship in late April.
Highlights of Missouri’s nominees include:
HAYLEY FRANK, Missouri, Basketball
Major: Architecture
- SEC Leadership Council, 2023
- Winter SEC Academic Honor Roll, 2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21
- First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll, 2019-20
- Preseason All-SEC First Team, 2023-24
- All-SEC First Team, 2022-23
- Preseason All-SEC Second Team, 2022-23
- All-SEC Second Team, 2021-22
- Co-SEC Player of the Week, January 4, 2022
- 2019-20 All-SEC Freshman Team, 2019-20
DAVIS HELMERICH, Missouri, Track & Field
Major: Business Administration
- SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll, 2023, 2022
- SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll, 2022, 2021
- All-SEC Freshman Team Honors in Men’s Mile at SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships, 2021
- No. 1 Men’s Indoor DMR (w/ Jacob Brunsman, Matthew Harding and Martin Prodanov) in program history at the JDL DMR Invitational (Feb. 18, 2022)
- No. 7 Men’s Outdoor 1500m (3:43.35) in program history at Crimson Tide Invitational (April 22, 2022)
- Owns four top-three finishes, six top-five finishes and 19 top-10 finishes in his career
The SEC provides the league’s male and female McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year Post-Graduate Scholarship recipients with a $20,000 post-graduate scholarship. The 26 remaining male and female finalists for the award will also receive a $10,000 post-graduate scholarship.
The award recipients are chosen by a committee of Faculty Athletics Representatives from the 14 SEC institutions and are announced in May, as well as honored by the league membership at SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, Fla.
Last year’s McWhorter Award recipients were LSU men’s cross country and track and field student-athlete Jackson Martingayle and Callie Dickinson of the Georgia women’s swimming and diving team.
