March 27, 2008

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The Southern Conference today named Furman cross country and track and field athlete Page Bridges the recipient of one of the league's six postgraduate scholarships for the 2007-08 academic year.

Bridges, who was awarded the David Knight Graduate Scholarship, was joined among the six honorees by Paladin football wide receiver Joe Watson, who captured the league's Bob McCloskey Insurance Graduate Scholarship. Furman's two recipients were the most by any school and marked the second consecutive year Paladin student-athletes have captured multiple league scholarships.

A native of Greenville, S.C., Bridges accumulated a 3.978 grade point average while majoring in Chemistry. A member of Furman's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Bridges also served as the service chair of the Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society and has been included in the Furman Dean's List each year from 2004-08.

Bridges has made significant achievements as a runner in addition to her academic exploits, highlighted by setting the school record in the 3000-meter steeplechase during the 2007 track season.

Bridges was also recently awarded a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship. She plans to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. degree in medical school at the University of North Carolina, giving her the ability to continue with medical research and lab experiments while also working as a physician.