FURMAN'S BEUCLER & ALLISON AWARDED NCAA POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Furman's Adam Beucler and Callum Allison have been recognized as NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients for the 2023-24 academic year.

The NCAA awards scholarships to 21 men and 21 women during each of the fall, winter, and spring seasons.  The scholarships, worth $10,000 each, are awarded to student-athletes who intend to pursue advanced degrees in graduate or professional school.  The student-athletes are evaluated on academics, athletics and community service.

A native of Hudson, Ohio, Beucler was a runner on Furman's cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field teams.  A two-time All-Southern Conference selection in cross country, he earned a second-team nod in 2020, when he also claimed the Pinnacle Award as the student-athlete with the highest GPA on the championship-winning team, and a first-team citation in 2022, when he finished seventh overall to help Furman to its tenth-straight team title.  Beucler competed at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in the spring of 2021 and ran in the NCAA Southeast Region Cross Country Championships in the fall of 2022.  

A captain for the cross country team, Beucler also excelled on the track, where he won the 5,000m title at the 2021 SoCon Indoor Track and Field Championships and at the 2023 SoCon Outdoor Track and Field Championships.  He also turned in podium finishes in the indoor 10,000m run in 2021 (third) and the indoor 3,000m run (third) and 5,000m run (second) in 2023. 

A health sciences major, Beucler was just as accomplished in the classroom, as he claimed College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team honors in 2022 and helped Furman earn USTFCCCA All-Academic Team distinction in 2020, 2021, and 2022.  He also earned inclusion in the Phi Eta Sigma, Alpha Epsilon Delta, and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies.  In the community, Beucler made Children's Hospital visits and worked at various on-campus service events as part of groups; served as a group leader for Let There Be Mom, a Greenville, S.C., nonprofit organization dedicated to parents battling life-threatening illnesses; and has volunteered at AID Upstate, a nonprofit organization that provides supportive services to people affected by HIV/AIDS in the Upstate of South Carolina.  Beucler is in his first year of medical school.

"Our program is so proud of Adam," said Furman head cross country/track coach Robert Gary.  "He was very thing we challenge our student-athletes to be in the classroom, on the course and track, and as leaders, with Adam being a team captain.  Adam is a very deserving recipient of this postgraduate scholarship."

Allison, a Greenville, S.C., native and graduate of Eastside High School, recently completed his fifth season as a member of the men's soccer program. He played in 38 career matches and logged three starts for the Paladins. Allison netted his first career goal during the 2022 season versus VMI and added a match-winning score this past season in a 3-0 victory over Coastal Carolina.

The midfielder earned Furman University's prestigious President's Award in 2021-22 while also being named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team following the 2022 campaign. Allison has also garnered Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and SoCon Fall Academic All-Conference accolades.

"Callum has grown up and spent his whole life around Furman University and the soccer program," said Paladin head coach and Callum's father, Doug Allison. "As coaches of the soccer program, we are so proud of him and all he has achieved here on the pitch and in the classroom, and how he has integrated himself so positively in the campus community. This is a fantastic honor for Callum. I appreciate the time Dr. Danielle Vinson and Callum's references took to support him.  As his father I often tell people that, 'it's hard to believe that he's actually my son.' This NCAA post graduate scholarship will go a long way to helping him afford medical school next year. Congratulations, Callum."

Allison, who sports a 4.0 GPA, earned his undergraduate degree in health sciences and is completing his master's degree in Community Engaged Medicine before attending medical school next fall. The Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society member and SoCon Commissioner's Medal recipient has worked as a research intern with the Hawkins Foundation and as an orthopedic research assistant with Prisma Health.