The NCAA announced its 2007 post-graduate scholarship award winners and swimming and diving enjoyed its biggest year to date. Fully half of the fifty-eight awards went to swimmers - the highest number in recent history. Swimmers and diver from twenty institutions earned scholarships with Emory leading the way at five.  Over the past decade Eagle swimmers and divers have earned nineteen such scholarships, the most of any team.  Stanford, Truman State Redlands, and Missouri-Rolla all placed two swimmers on the team.  

To qualify for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, a student-athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.200 (on a 4.000 scale) or its equivalent, and must have performed with distinction as a member of the varsity team in the sport in which the student-athlete was nominated. The student-athlete must have behaved, both on and off the field, in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics. The student-athlete also must intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time or part-time graduate student.

Over the past decade, Division III schools have brought home the largest number of awards.  Emory (19), Kenyon (17), and Denison (12) lead the way with Stanford (11), Southern Methodist (9) and Georgia (9) 

2006-07 Postgraduate Scholarship Men's Winter Awardees 
 Theodore Brown             Notre Dame
 Matthew Crowe              Stanford 
 William Gaul               Missouri-Rolla
 Trevor Harp                Redlands
 Alexander Kennon           Florida State 
 Marcel Kleiner             Cincinnati
 Tim Newton                 Emory
 Andrew Roos                Emory
 Thomas Roos                Emory
 Steven Segerlin            Auburn 
 Andy Shelley               Missouri-Rolla
 Stephen Spinelli           Williams
 Matej Tomas                Fairmont State
 Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner  Stanford
 Christopher Wilson-Byrne   Boston College        

2006-07 Postgraduate Scholarship Women's Winter Awardees 
 Brittany Anderson          Truman State
 Erika Andrews              Navy
 Rachel Duthler             Grand Valley State
 Elizabeth Fittery          Rutgers
 Lija Kaleps-Clark          Truman State 
 Jamie Lawler               Emory
 Blair Leake                Air Force 
 Claire Maust               Georgia
 Taryn Mellody              Scranton
 Cathleen Penney            Redlands
 Hali Saucier               Louisiana State 
 Alexis Smith               Emory
 Lisa Smith                 Hope 
 Jamie Wolf                 Clarion 

The number (29) of scholarship winners was the highest in the recorded history of the award and a far cry the 2006 (19) and 2005 (15) totals. It also gives added hope that a swimmer will walk away with the Walter Byers Scholarship. The Byers scholarsihp, valued at $21,500, is given to just one female and one male each year and will be awarded following the spring championship season. Four swimmers have won the Byers scholarship with the last coming in 2005 when Truman State's Sarah Dance earned the award.