Two from UA nominated for scholarship

FAYETTEVILLE — Taliyah Brooks and Jamarco Stephen of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville women’s and men’s track and field teams have been nominated by the school for the SEC’s Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship, the conference office announced Friday.

The SEC honors one male and one female representative from all 14 conference schools each year with the $20,000 post-graduate scholarship. The remaining 26 nominees each receive a $10,000 post-graduate scholarship.

Brooks, a senior from Wichita Falls, Texas, is a nine-time All-American and this year won the pentathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships. She is a two-time SEC champion in the heptathlon and pentathlon and twice was Texas Relays heptathlon champion. She earned her bachelor’s degree in communications in 2016 and is on schedule to complete a master’s degree this summer. She is president of Arkansas’ Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and a four-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Stephen, a senior from Friendswood, Texas, is a five-time All-American as a member of Arkansas’ relay teams. He’s a member of SAAC and has been named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll three times.

The McWhorter scholarship winners are chosen by a committee of SEC faculty athletics representatives and will be honored at the conference’s spring meetings in June.