Texas A&M’s Ella Doerge Selected as Rhodes Scholarship Finalist

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, November 17. TEXAS A&M swimmer Ella Doerge (pronounced DOOR-geeh) has been selected as a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship and will travel to Houston on Nov. 20 to participate in selection interviews, the Texas A&M Honors Programs announced.

If selected as a Rhodes Scholar, Doerge, a senior genetics major from Clive, Iowa, will be among a select group of the 32 most outstanding college students in the United States, and would pursue a Master of Science degree in clinical embryology at the University of Oxford.

Doerge is a three-year letter winner for the Texas A&M women's swimming and diving team. Last spring Doerge was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District and All-America teams, and she received special recognition on the Academic All-Big 12 Conference swim team for her perfect 4.0 grade point average.

A standout in the pool as well as the classroom, Doerge ranks in Texas A&M's all-time top 10 lists in five different events. Last summer, she qualified for the U.S. World Championship Trials and swam a leg on Texas A&M's victorious 800-meter freestyle relay at the meet.

An Honors Programs University Scholar, Ella was also the Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Junior from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and she is an officer for WorldMed, a student organization that organizes international medical missions. This past summer, she conducted research in bovine genetics. Her long-term interests are to attend medical school and study prenatal genetics.

The Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international fellowships, were initiated after the death of Cecil Rhodes in 1902, and bring outstanding students from many countries around the world to the University of Oxford. The primary qualification for a successful candidate is intellectual distinction, although the selection committees also seek excellence in qualities of mind and in qualities of person which, in combination, offer the promise of effective service to the world in the decades ahead.

Through the years, Rhodes Scholars have pursued studies in all of the varied fields available at the University of Oxford, where they are elected for two years of study, with the possibility of renewal for a third year. Notable Rhodes Scholars include former U.S. President Bill Clinton, NBA Hall-of-Fame inductee and Senator Bill Bradley, and Country Music Hall of Fame Inductee Kris Kristofferson.

Texas A&M has produced seven Rhodes Scholars in its history, with the earliest dating back to 1922. The most recent Aggie Rhodes Scholar was Nick Anthis '05, who recently completed his doctorate at Oxford and is now completing a post-doctorate fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

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