South Carolina’s William Riggs Nominated for McWhorter Award

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South Carolina has named senior swimmer William Riggs as its male nominee for the SEC’s H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship Award.

Riggs is majoring in risk management and insurance/finance. The native of Richmond, Va., is a two-time member of the Dean’s List, a five-time Athletic Director’s Honor Roll member and has been named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll all four seasons. He was also named to the SEC Community Service Team in 2020.

In the pool, Riggs is a butterfly specialist who finished sixth in program history in the 200 butterfly. He swam that event at the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Championships.

Volleyball player Mikayla Shields is South Carolina’s female nominee. The McWhorter Award gives post-graduate scholarships of $20,000 to the top male and female senior athlete from the conference’s 14 schools. The 26 finalists each receive a $10,000 scholarship. Riggs joins Alabama’s Zane Waddell, Auburn’s Bailey Nero, Florida’s Tori Bindi and Kentucky’s Asia Seidt and Glen Brown as swimmers nominated for the 2020 award.

The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Postgraduate Scholarship has been presented annually since 1986 to the SEC’s top male and female scholar-athletes. The conference’s 14 member institutions will release their nominations over the next two weeks, and the recipient will be named in late May. Past swimming recipients include Anton McKee (Alabama, 2017), Sarah Gibson (Texas A&M, 2017), Maddie Locus (Georgia, 2015), Shannon Vreeland (Georgia, 2014), Wendy Trott (Georgia, 2012), Dan Mazzaferro (Auburn, 2011), Erica Meissner (Auburn, 2011), Jordan Anderson (Auburn, 2010) and Christine Magnuson (Tennessee, 2009).

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