May 28, 2009
NORMAL, Ill. -
Former Illinois State volleyball player Erin Lindsey received the highest university-wide honor bestowed upon an undergraduate as she was one of 14 recipients of a Robert G. Bone Scholar award for the 2009-10 academic year. She is the first Redbird student-athlete to receive a Bone Scholarship since former men's golfer Ryan Brown in 2005.
The scholarship is named in honor of the late Robert G. Bone, president of Illinois State from 1956-1967. Bone Scholars are selected through a rigorous campus-wide competition on the basis of their scholarly achievements and their engagement and leadership in activities, in the university community and beyond. Invited finalists submit a comprehensive portfolio including several essays and statements, a project and five letters of recommendation. The mean grade-point average of this year's Bone Scholars is 3.96 on a 4.0 scale.
The scholarship includes a monetary award from the Bone Scholarship endowment. Pictures of the recipients are displayed in the Bone Student Center, and their names are engraved on a plaque which is permanently displayed permanently there.
Lindsey was a four-year letterwinner at ISU and one of the best setters in program history. She finished her career in second place in set-assists with 5,524, just the second player in school history to eclipse the 5,000 set-assist mark, and averaged a school-record 12.08 set-assists per match. Lindsey had at least 1,200 set-assists all four years of her career, including three seasons that rank in the top-10 in school single-season history. She is also third all-time in digs with 1,361.
Lindsey was a three-time All-Valley selection and was the 2005 Valley Freshman of the Year. A three-time MVC Scholar-Athlete and a two-time CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V selection, Lindsey had a 3.76 cumulative GPA in physics.
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