BALTIMORE, MD – Three former student-athletes from Johns Hopkins University were among the 84 individuals selected to receive a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship it was recently announced by the organization. The NCAA collectively announced its male and female postgraduate scholarship recipients from fall and winter sports for 2020-21.  Each of the 84 individuals will receive at $10,000 postgraduate scholarship with 21 men and 21 women selected from fall sports and the same number from winter sports to account for the 84 recipients announced.
 
Adding their names to the growing list of Johns Hopkins student-athletes who have been awarded a postgraduate scholarship are Addison Quinones (football), Erin Chen (women's fencing) and Emile Kuyl (men's swimming).  The three boost Johns Hopkins' total to seven recipients in the last two years, 17 in the last eight years and 53 since Robert Smith (men's basketball) became the school's first honoree in 1964-65.  This is the eighth consecutive year that Johns Hopkins has produced at least one NCAA Postgraduate Scholar.
 
Quinones graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2019 and was a four-year standout on the Blue Jay football team. He helped lead the team to four Centennial Conference titles, four trips to the NCAA Playoffs and a run to the NCAA Semifinals as a senior.  Quinones is the 12^th Johns Hopkins football player to earn an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, including the third in the last two years.
 
As a standout defensive back, Quinones was a two-time d3Football.com All-South selection, a two-time First Team All-Centennial Conference honoree and was twice named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team.  He concluded his career with 191 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss, 11 pass breakups, five sacks and four interceptions.  Quinones recently completed his first year at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; he graduated from Johns Hopkins with a degree in neuroscience and a 3.72 cumulative GPA.
 
With her selection, Chen becomes the first member of the Blue Jay women's fencing program to earn an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.  She was one of just two women's fencers selected to receive the award this year, is the first Division III women's fencer from any school to be selected in at least seven years and is one of just eight women's fencers honored since 2013-14 – the other seven were all selected from a Division I program.
 
Chen graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2020 with a degree in molecular and cellular biology and a 3.90 cumulative GPA; she will begin medical school at Johns Hopkins in the fall.
 
Chen is the winningest fencer in Johns Hopkins history (male or female) and counted 364 wins in her career. She also holds the women's fencing record for wins in a season (113). A three-time EWFC Sabre Fencer of the Year and four-time all-conference selection, she was the EWFC Woman of the Year as a senior and was Johns Hopkins' NCAA Woman of the Year nominee in 2020 as well.  She placed in the top-20 at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional and top-five at the NIWFA Championships in each of her four years and won the NIWFA Sabre title and placed a career-best eighth at the NCAA Regional in 2017.
 
Chen was a First Team CoSIDA Academic All-American as a senior.  She was the first women's fencer in school history to earn Academic All-America and was the first Division III women's fencer to earn First Team Academic All-America since 2002 when she was named to the top squad in 2020.  She is one of just eight all-time Division III women's fencers to earn Academic All-America honors and just the second to be named to the first team.
 
Kuyl, a 19-time All-American for the Blue Jay men's swimming program, graduated in 2019 with degrees in neuroscience and French.  He also plans to enroll in medical school this fall and is currently finalizing his options.
 
A two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, including a first team selection as a senior, Kuyl helped lead Johns Hopkins to four consecutive podium finishes at the NCAA Championships as the Blue Jays placed fourth in each of his seasons at Homewood.  When he graduated, he was one of just four individuals in Johns Hopkins men's swimming history to twice earn CoSIDA Academic All-America honors and one of just six to be named to the first team.
 
Kuyl earned the maximum seven All-America honors at the NCAA Championships in each of his last two seasons to roll up the 19 All-America finishes in his career. In addition, he finished in the top three at NCAAs six times, including four runner-up finishes. When he graduated, he held the school record in the 100 Back and boasted nine of the 10 fastest times in the event in program history. He was also a member of the school-record 200 and 400 Medley Relay teams.
 
Kuyl is the 11^th all-time NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient produced by the Johns Hopkins men's swimming program and the first since Andy Greenhalgh in 2017.
 
The NCAA provides the $10,000 scholarships to just 21 male and 21 female athletes each season (fall-winter-spring).  For the fall, the sports included were cross country, football, soccer and water polo for men and cross country, equestrian, field hockey, rugby, soccer, triathlon and volleyball for women.  For the winter, men's recipients are selected from athletes competing in basketball, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, track & field, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving and wrestling, while women competing in basketball, bowling, fencing, gymnastics, hockey track & field, rifle, skiing and swimming are eligible for nomination.
 
Student-athletes selected must have exhausted their eligibility and must use the scholarship in the academic year following their selection.  There is no limit on how long after completion of their undergraduate degree a student-athlete may be nominated.