Grant Poston named to SCAC Honor Roll

2010 Feb 16

The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) named Centre College freshman Grant Poston of West Chester to its Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll for the 2009 fall term. The College set a new record with 74 student-athletes securing a spot.

In order to qualify, an athlete must maintain a minimum grade-point average of 3.25 for the term and be a regular member of a varsity athletic team in sports sponsored by the conference.

Poston competed on the football team at Centre. He is the son of Alison Kirschner of West Chester and David Poston of Pickerington, and is a graduate of Lakota West High School.

Founded in 1819, Centre is ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the country's top 50 national liberal arts colleges and is the most affordable college in that group. Centre is ranked by Forbes magazine as No. 14 among all colleges and universities and as No. 1 in the South; Consumers Digest names it the No. 1 educational value among U.S. liberal arts colleges. In addition, over the last 25 years, Centre leads all colleges and universities in the percentage of alumni who give annual financial support.