Dean Earns Commissioner’s Postgraduate Leadership Award

IRVING, Texas – The American Conference has introduced that Tulane observe and area star Janae Dean has been chosen as one the winners of the 2024-25 Commissioner’s Postgraduate Leadership Awards by the convention’s Academic Committee. Memphis males’s soccer standout Logan Longo was additionally named a winner of the award for the 24-25 marketing campaign.

The awards are given yearly to at least one male and one feminine student-athlete from an American-sponsored sport who’ve been admitted to a degree-granting or skilled program for the next 12 months and who’ve demonstrated management via excellence in tutorial credentials, athletic efficiency and depth of dedication to service throughout the establishment or the neighborhood.

Dean and Longo will every obtain a $5,000 scholarship, which can be utilized to postgraduate examine.

Dean is the third Tulane student-athlete to earn a Commissioner’s Postgraduate Leadership Award. She helped Tulane to its first American Indoor Track and Field Championship in 2025 as she completed second within the 800-meter run. She added a second runner-up end within the 800 on the American Outdoor Championship in 2025 and was the convention’s outside champion within the 800 in 2023.

A local of Kansas City, Kansas, Dean was acknowledged with the American’s 2025 Marlon Dechausay Unity Award, recognizing people who create significant alternatives, uplift these round them and champion the expansion and success of student-athletes and employees. She earned a prestigious Roll Wave Scholarship for graduate college students and was chosen as a Stephen Martin Scholar, an honor reserved for 2 student-athletes who excel academically and athletically whereas demonstrating management and civic engagement.

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