NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Jessie Gong '22, the captain of the 2021-22 Yale women's tennis team, has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
 
Gong enjoyed an outstanding career on the court and in the classroom at Yale. During the 2019-20 season, she and doubles partner Samantha Martinelli became the first Bulldogs to earn All-America honors. The two won the ITA All-American title in the fall, the first Ivy League women in either singles or doubles to win the event. As a senior in 2021-22, she earned second team All-Ivy honors in doubles with partner Chelsea Kung and was Yale's NCAA Woman of the Year nominee. In addition, she was named an ITA Scholar Athlete three times and was a two-time Academic All-Ivy selection.
 
Gong, of Vancouver, Wash., is pursuing a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Washington and plans to become a physician.
 
The NCAA awards up to 126 postgraduate scholarships annually.  The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are at least in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.
 
The one-time non-renewable scholarships of $10,000 are awarded three times a year corresponding to each sport season (fall, winter and spring).  Each sports season there are 21 scholarships available for men and 21 scholarships available for women for use in an accredited graduate program.
 
All former student-athletes who earned an undergraduate degree from an NCAA member school are eligible to be nominated by that school for an NCAA graduate degree scholarship, regardless of when they received their undergraduate degree.