Alon Rogow and Shea Furse Nominated for SEC H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Georgia observe and subject athlete Alon Rogow and swimmer Shea Furse have been nominated for the 2025-26 Southeastern Conference H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year, as introduced by the league workplace Monday.

The winners of the lads’s and ladies’s awards, chosen by the SEC Faculty Athletic Representatives, might be introduced in late April. The winners will obtain $20,000 postgraduate scholarships, persevering with a convention courting again to 1986. The remaining female and male finalists will obtain a $10,000 scholarship.

The Georgia ladies’s swimming and diving program has beforehand produced 9 Boyd McWhorter Award winners, probably the most of any single SEC athletic program. In current years, Callie Dickinson (2023) and Abby McCulloh (2025) have been honored with the award. Rogow is the second Georgia males’s observe athlete nominated prior to now three years, becoming a member of distance runner Wesley John in 2024.

Overall, the University of Georgia has produced 12 recipients, probably the most of any SEC establishment.

Alon Rogow, Track & Field
Major: Master’s – Sport Management and Policy

• Graduated with bachelor’s diploma in Sport Management in December 2025.
• 2025-26 Joel Eaves Scholar Athlete Award for being the UGA male student-athlete with the very best GPA upon coming into the autumn semester of his senior 12 months.
• President of Run Your City Athens Chapter, which gives kids from a spread of various backgrounds a possibility to enhance themselves with wholesome habits.
• Part of the UGA Student Affairs Student Advisory Board and the Athletic Association’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
• Finished fifth within the pole vault on the 2025 SEC Indoor Championships.
• Ranked No. 6 on the college’s all-time high 10 checklist within the indoor pole vault after twice clearing 5.30 meters/17 toes, 4 1/2 inches.
• Advanced to the 2025 NCAA East Prelims throughout his third 12 months lettering for the Bulldogs.

 
Shea Furse, Swimming & Diving
Major: Finance
 

• Scheduled to graduate with a bachelor’s diploma in Finance this spring.
• Three-time CSC Academic All-District Team honoree.
• Two-time CSCAA Scholar All-America Team honoree.
• Served as workforce consultant to UGA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for 3 years.
• Four-year letterwinner on ladies’s swimming and diving workforce as member of freestyle group.
• Earned three CSCAA All-America Team citations in 800-yard freestyle relay, together with First Team honors in 2024.
• Competed at three NCAA Championships, together with twice as a person.
• 2026 SEC Silver Medalist and 2024 SEC Bronze Medalist in 800-yard freestyle relay.
• Reached 2024 200-yard freestyle championship remaining at SEC Championships; scored in eight particular person occasions at SECs.
• Competed in 200-meter freestyle and 32^nd in 400-meter freestyle at 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.

 
University of Georgia H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year Recipients
1986 – Virginia Diederich (ladies’s swimming and diving)
1988 – Linda Leith (ladies’s swimming and diving)
1989 – Deanne Burnett (ladies’s swimming and diving)
1991 – Al Parker (males’s tennis)
1997 – Andy DeVooght (males’s swimming and diving)
2000 – Joey Pitts (males’s tennis)
2001 – Kim Black (ladies’s swimming and diving)
2012 – Wendy Trott (ladies’s swimming and diving)
2014 – Shannon Vreeland (ladies’s swimming and diving)
2015 – Maddie Locus (ladies’s swimming and diving)
2023 – Callie Dickinson (ladies’s swimming and diving)
2025 – Abby McCulloh (ladies’s swimming and diving)