INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Johns Hopkins women's track and field senior Veronica Montane has earned an NCAA Ethnic Minority & Women's Enhancement Graduate Scholarship it was announced recently. She is the first student-athlete from Johns Hopkins University to earn the scholarship.  
 
The Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Graduate Scholarship was developed by the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics and the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee. The goal of the enhancement program is to increase the pool of and opportunities for qualified minority and female candidates in intercollegiate athletics through graduate scholarships.
 
The NCAA awards $10,000 to 13 ethnic minorities and 13 female college graduates who will be entering their initial year of graduate studies. The applicant must be seeking admission or have been accepted into a sports administration or program that will help the applicant obtain a career in intercollegiate athletics, such as athletics administrator, coach, athletic trainer or a career that provides a direct service to intercollegiate athletics. 
 
Montane graduated in May with a degree in neuroscience and has been accepted to Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She will begin work towards her Doctor of Physical Therapy this fall. Montane is a two-time All-American in the javelin as she placed second at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Championship and third in 2021. She is also a seven-time medalist at the Centennial Conference (CC) Indoor and Outdoor Track Championships, including gold in the javelin and triple jump in 2019. Montane helped Hopkins to six CC Championships (three indoor, three outdoor) as well as top-five finishes at the 2019 and 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track Championships.
 
Montane has been a research assistant at the Neuroplasticity and Development Lab in the Psychology and Brain Sciences Department at Hopkins since June 2018. She has also completed clinical observation hours at Harbor Physical Therapy for the last year. Montane worked as an office assistant for the Hopkins Athletic Department for the last three years. In addition, for four years she served as a producer, graphics coordinator and camera operator on the athletic communications' video production crew.  
 
Montane was a founding member and two-term president of the Johns Hopkins Puerto Rican Student Association. She was the social media co-chair of JHU's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and was a member of the Multicultural Leadership Council as well as Blue Jays LEAD.