Moore School student-athletes
Whitney Simons and
Mark Anderson were each awarded the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete
Post-Graduate Scholarship by the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The McWhorter Scholarship, worth
$5,000, has been presented to the league’s top male and female scholar-athletes by the SEC since
1986.
Aiken, South Carolina-native Simons, a member of the USC women’s golf team who is graduating with a double major in international business and finance, ranked eighth in the nation in women’s collegiate golf her junior year. She has consistently placed on the SEC Honor Roll and as a NGCA All-America Scholar each year of her college career. She was named the SEC Women’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2006.
Anderson, a native of Beaufort, South Carolina, served as captain of the men’s golf team and is completing a double major in marketing and management at the Moore School. He has been named to the dean’s list six times and was the 2005 SEC Freshman of the Year.
Simons and Anderson were recognized at the 2008 Gamecock Gala athletic awards banquet in late April. Other Moore School scholar-athletes recognized at the event were:
William Brown, a Blythewood, South Carolina, native and a four-year letter
winner in football, who earned a degree in management and marketing (in 2007) and is completing a
master’s degree in sport and entertainment management at USC. He was named to both the SEC and the
American Football Coaches Association’s “Good Works” Teams and was a finalist for the Wuerffel
Trophy and FCA Bobby Bowden Award community service awards. He was the first USC student-athlete to
serve on the NCAA National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He is the (male) recipient of the
SEC’s 2007-2008 Brad Davis Southeastern Conference Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship,
worth $5,000.
Blythe Worley, a member of the women’s golf team who is graduating summa cum
laude with a degree in management and marketing, received the Female Scholar Athlete of the Year
award for 2007-2008. The Greenville, North Carolina, native plans to pursue a graduate degree in
sports administration at UNC Chapel Hill.
Blakely Mattern, a member of the women’s soccer team and an international
business major, earned the Female Athlete of the Year award. Just completing her sophomore year,
she is the first USC women’s soccer player to earn the All-America honor from Soccer Buzz and is
also the first sophomore in conference history to earn the SEC Defensive Player of the Year honor.
She is a native of Simpsonville, South Carolina.
Gail Crouch, May 2008