PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Diverse: Issues In Higher Education magazine recently announced the Top 20 male and female semifinalists for the 2017 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award, and Memphis student-athletes Andrew Watson (tennis), Cheyenne Creighton (women's basketball), and Lindsey Stickrod (softball) have been placed on the list.
In all, the American Athletic Conference had six student-athletes put on the lists. The additional student-athletes in the conference were UConn's Danielle Bordes, Cincinnati's Valentina Herrera, and USF's Olga Martinez-Manso.
Each year Diverse: Issues In Higher Education invites postsecondary institutions to participate in this awards program by nominating their sports scholars.