CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has announced that Coe College wrestler Rob Kramer (Swisher, Iowa/Prairie) has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The NCAA awards up to 174 postgraduate scholarships annually, 87 for men and 87 for women.
The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition. The one-time grants of $7,500 each are awarded for fall sports, winter sports and spring sports.

Each sports season (fall, winter and spring), there are 29 scholarships available for men and 29 scholarships available for women. The scholarships are one-time, non-renewable grants.

Kramer was a two-time All-American for the Kohawks at 197 pounds.  Rob posted 30-win seasons all four years as a Kohawk and holds the school record for career falls.  He also ranks second in career wins.

The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was created in 1964 to promote and encourage postgraduate education by rewarding the Association's most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports. Athletics and academic achievements, as well as campus involvement, community service, volunteer activities and demonstrated leadership, are evaluated.  An equitable approach is employed in reviewing each applicant's nomination form to provide opportunity to all student-athlete nominees to receive the postgraduate award, regardless of sport, division, gender or race. 

In maintaining the highest broad-based standards in the selection process, the program aims to reward those individuals whose dedication and effort are reflective of those characteristics necessary to succeed and thrive through postgraduate study in an accredited graduate degree program.

Kramer has accepted a position at a local engineering firm and will pursue a graduate degree in Civil Engineering in the near future.