ROLLA, Mo. – Lee Voth-Gaeddert, who earned all-conference honors as part of Missouri S&T's two Great Lakes Valley Conference West Division championship teams, has been named as a recipient of a post-graduate scholarship award from the NCAA for the 2015 spring season.

Voth-Gaeddert, who graduated from Missouri S&T in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, is doing his post-graduate work at Missouri S&T in environmental engineering.  He received the award of $7,500 from the NCAA, which is given out to 29 graduates in each of the three athletic seasons (fall, winter and spring) who have been accepted into a graduate degree-granting program at an accredited graduate or professional school.

"This is an outstanding tribute to Lee and to Missouri S&T.  We could not be more proud," said Missouri S&T director of athletics Mark Mullin. "He has always been a great representative of our program and Missouri S&T and will continue to be as he pursues his doctorate here at Missouri S&T.  Lee and Andrew Schranck -- who was also recently honored as an NCAA postgraduate scholar -- epitomize the scholar-athlete model that we want to promote and celebrate at Missouri S&T.  We wish Lee the very best in his future academic and professional endeavors."
As a player at Missouri S&T, Voth-Gaeddert was a two-year starter in the outfield and earned All-Midwest Region honors after the 2012 campaign when he led the Miners with a .364 batting average.  Voth-Gaeddert was a unanimous selection to the All-GLVC first team that year and tied a single season school record with 40 runs scored.

In the two seasons in which he played for the Miners, Voth-Gaeddert recorded a .349 average at the plate – with 117 hits in that 95-game span – with 22 doubles, 64 runs batted in and 34 stolen bases.    He had a .430 slugging percentage during those two years.

He earned Capital One Academic All-America honors following the 2012 season – when the Miners won a school record 32 games and captured their second straight GLVC West title.  A year earlier, the Miners earned a bid to the NCAA Division II Tournament for the first time in 39 seasons and second in school history while winning the division title.

Following graduation, Voth-Gaeddert has worked as an intern in Washington D.C., with USAID and the U.S. Department of State as well as with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, a group that leads international efforts to defeat hunger around the world.