GREENSBORO, N.C. – Virginia Tech's Taylor Emery and Ian Ho have been selected as 2019 Weaver-James Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship Award recipients, while Jaila Tolbert was named an ACC Postgraduate Honorary Recipient, as announced by the league office on Thursday.
The student-athletes will be honored at the annual Cone Health ACC Postgraduate Scholarship Luncheon presented by ESPN on April 10. The luncheon will be hosted by the Nat Greene Kiwanis Club at the Sheraton Four Seasons Hotel Imperial Ballroom in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The Weaver-James-Corrigan and Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarships are awarded to selected student-athletes who intend to pursue a graduate degree following completion of their undergraduate requirements. Each recipient will receive $6,000 toward his or her graduate education.
Those honored have performed with distinction in both the classroom and their respective sport, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community.
Emery, who also was named one of only three student-athletes to receive the Thacker Award as well, stars on Tech's women's basketball team, becoming the fastest player to score 1,000 points in program history (55 games). She was tabbed second-team All-ACC last season after breaking the school record for most points in a season with 667. Emery also made the 2017-18 ACC Women's Basketball All-Academic Team.
Ho, the school record holder in the 50-yard freestyle and a part of the school-record 200 freestyle relay, was selected to compete in the inaugural ACC/B1G Challenge this past fall. He has competed on the national stage, too, competing individually at the NCAA Swimming Championships. Ho is a two-time All-ACC Academic Team member and has been awarded College Swimming and Diving Association of America Scholar All-America honors twice.
Tolbert wrapped up her volleyball career this past fall, making the All-ACC team for the second straight season on her way to racking up over 1,000 kills in her career. The Minnesota native also played on the U.S. Women's Collegiate National Team – Detroit last summer. Tolbert is the ACC's representative on Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), as well as the president of Tech's SAAC.
