INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Three University of Tennessee student-athletes have been chosen as NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients, the group introduced final week. UT’s honorees embody
Martin Espernberger and
Nick Stone from males’s swimming & diving and
Lauren Jarrett from ladies’s observe & area.
Announced on April 22, the NCAA awarded $10,000 to 42 distinctive student-athletes as a part of its Postgraduate Scholarship program. These student-athletes, representing winter sports activities throughout all three NCAA divisions, have demonstrated excellent tutorial achievements, athletic excellence and management inside their communities.
Established in 1964, the
NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship program promotes and encourages graduate training by recognizing the Association’s most completed student-athletes. The program evaluates candidates on their athletic and tutorial achievements, campus involvement, neighborhood service and management. An equitable choice course of ensures that every one nominees, no matter sport, division, gender or race, are thought-about pretty.
Stone is a three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll choice pursuing a level in sport administration. The Midland, Texas, native can be a member of Tennessee’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, serving as co-president. Stone was one in all two Tennessee swimmers named to the SEC Community Service Team in February, recognizing athletes who give again via excellent service efforts.
The senior diver posted a pair of top-10 finishes on the SEC Championships, together with a fifth-place displaying within the platform occasion. He garnered a number of accolades in his first season on Rocky Top, together with being named the 2023 SEC Freshman Diver of the Year after scoring in all three diving occasions. Stone additionally owns a top-10 mark in program historical past, together with his platform rating of 397.90 rating seventh all-time.
Espernberger is a two-time CSC Academic All-American, incomes honors in 2024 and 2025. In 2024, he was additionally named the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for males’s swimming and diving. The Linz, Austria, native is majoring in electrical engineering.
The senior swimmer has received three medals within the 200 fly on the SEC Championships, together with gold in 2024. He has additionally represented Austria on the worldwide stage, highlighted by his look on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place he completed sixth within the 200 fly.
Espernberger is a three-time All-America honoree, together with First Team distinction after putting fifth within the 200 fly on the 2025 NCAA Championships. He holds two top-10 instances in program historical past, together with the college file within the 200 fly (1:39.34), and ranks seventh all-time within the 100 fly (45.43).
Jarrett joined the Lady Vol observe & area program within the fall of 2025 following a standout three-year profession at Wisconsin-La Crosse. From 2023–25, she captured 9 particular person/relay NCAA Division III nationwide titles, earned 14 All-America honors and set Division III all-time data within the 60-meter (7.29) and 100-meter (11.23).
In her first season on Rocky Top, Jarrett has surpassed each marks with instances of seven.27 and 11.06 within the 60- and 100-meter sprint, respectively. Her 100-meter efficiency ranks third in program historical past and twelfth nationally through the 2026 outside season.
Currently pursuing a bachelor’s diploma in kinesiology, Jarrett is a two-time CSC Academic All-American, incomes second staff honors in 2024 and first staff recognition in 2025.