By Brent Williamson
Wofford College student-athletes Megan Dunn, Omar Williams and Grant Wollam earned three of the 10 available Southern Conference postgraduate scholarships.
The scholarships, worth $2,000 each, are awarded to student-athletes about to receive their undergraduate degrees who intend to pursue advanced degrees in graduate or professional school. The student-athletes are evaluated on academics, athletics and community service.
MEGAN DUNN ’21 was awarded the Bob McCloskey Insurance Scholarship. A multi athlete for the Terriers’ track and field team, Dunn is a three-time SoCon champion, winning the pentathlon during the 2020 and 2021 indoor seasons and the heptathlon during the 2021 outdoor season. Prior to that, she was the runner-up in the pentathlon in 2018 and in the javelin and heptathlon in 2019. She holds program records in both the pentathlon and javelin.
A biology major with a 3.93 GPA, Dunn, who has spent 340 hours working as an optometric assistant, will attend the three-year accelerated scholars program at Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University beginning in July. The native of Dorchester, Ontario, has twice been named to the Academic All-SoCon team and has earned SoCon Commissioner’s Medals three times. She earned the W. Raymond Leonard Endowed Scholarship and the Dobbs Scholarship from the Wofford biology department. Dunn has been involved in coaching youth sports.
OMAR WILLIAMS ’21 is also a Bob McCloskey Insurance Scholarship recipient. A four-year letterman on the men’s tennis team, Williams worked his way up the lineup to play in the No. 1 singles spot this season. Williams, who was named to the All-Freshman team in 2018, was named First-Team All-Conference this season in addition to being the February athlete of the month and a two-time player of the week.
The native of Spartanburg, S.C., is a three-time honoree on the SoCon Academic Honor Roll and has been named to the SoCon Academic Team twice. Williams has been the men’s tennis team representative on Wofford’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for the past two years and has assisted in service projects. A double major in accounting and finance, Williams plans to attend Clemson’s School of Accountancy while preparing for the CPA exam.
GRANT WOLLAM ’21 is the 2021 recipient of the Dave Hart Scholarship. A goalkeeper for the Terriers, Wollam made consecutive starts this spring allowing four goals and making 11 saves in the two contests for a seasonal .733 save percentage and 2.00 GAA. For his career, Wollam has posted a .711 save percentage and a 2.04 goals-against average over 15 games and 12 starts.
A physics and finance double major with a 3.74 GPA, Wollam has been a team representative for Wofford’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee since 2019. In 2020, Wollam became a Gift of Life Donor, donating stem cells to a stranger with similar DNA who needed a transplant to overcome leukemia and then providing a second donation months later. Wollam helped organize an outreach event that brought around 100 elementary school children to Wofford’s campus to experience being a college student for a day, also helping develop physics demonstrations for the presentation.
The Leesburg, Ga., native plans to pursue a master’s degree in electrical engineering and hopes to one day own his own engineering company to help create a cleaner planet.