Dillingham, Brown Named SEC Boyd McWhorter Scholarship Nominees
April 19, 2017 | Football, Women's Basketball
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Richie Brown of the Mississippi State football team and Dominique Dillingham of the Bulldog women's basketball team have been nominated for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship by Mississippi State University.
The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship has been presented by the Southeastern Conference since 1986 to the league's top male and female scholar-athletes.
The Southeastern Conference will name the 2017 recipients of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship on April 27.
Highlights of Mississippi State's nominees include:
RICHIE BROWN, Football, Mississippi State
Major: Industrial Technology
- Semifinalist for the 2016 NFF Campbell Trophy, considered the "Academic Heisman"
- Posted a 3.52 GPA while earning his degree in industrial technology
- Currently pursuing his Master of Business Administration
- Four-time member of the SEC Honor Roll (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- Member of the 2017 National Football Foundation Hampshire Society and a team captain
- 2016 Second-Team All-SEC by Phil Steele
- Team's leading tackler in back-to-back seasons as a junior and senior
- Collected the most tackles by a player in the Dan Mullen era with 299, including 142 of the solo variety
- Ranked in the top five of the SEC in total tackles in both his junior and senior seasons
- First MSU player to register back-to-back seasons of 100 or more tackles since 2011-12
- Two-time SEC Defensive Player of the Week and the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 4, 2014
DOMINIQUE DILLINGHAM, Women's Basketball, Mississippi State
Major: Kinesiology
- 3.57 cumulative GPA
- SEC Academic Honor Roll each of her four years
- Two-time SEC All-Defensive Team selection
- Associated Press All-SEC Honorable Mention as a junior (2015-16)
- Played in 139-career games, starting 119
- Part of the winningest class in school history (111 wins)
- Part of the first senior class to guide MSU to four-straight NCAA Tournament berths and the program's first Elite Eight and Final Four
- Scored 1,013 points in her career, including a 6.6 average this season
- Ranks 25th in MSU career scoring with 1,013 points
- Fourth at MSU in career steals with 210
- Finished her career second among active SEC players in career steals
- Took 23 charges in 2016-17; 131 for her career
- Majoring in Kinesiology and seeing a degree in clinical exercise physiology
Each year, the SEC, in conjunction with AT&T, an SEC official sponsor, provides the league's male and female McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship recipients with a $15,000 post-graduate scholarship. The 26 remaining male and female finalists for the award will also receive a $7,500 post-graduate scholarship.
The award recipients are chosen by a committee of Faculty Athletics Representatives from the 14 SEC institutions and are honored at the SEC Spring Meetings in Sandestin, Fla., in early June.
