Tar Heel Scholar-Athlete -- April 22, 1999

Ted Brisson, a senior tri-captain of the North Carolina Tar Heels swim team, was named the winner of the 1999 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Award, worth $5,000. A senior from Goldboro, NC, Brisson has been a member of 3 ACC Championship teams while maintaining a 3.81 GPA in a double major, economics and chemistry. He plans to attend med school at Harvard, Johns Hopkins or North Carolina.