The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was created in 1964 to promote and encourage graduate education by rewarding the Association's most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports. The NCAA awards up to 174 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.

Through the 2017-18 academic year, the Ivy League has totaled 215 athletes who have earned NCAA postgraduate scholarship, 17 of whom were former Penn student-athletes:

PENN NCAA POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARS

• Robert Atkinson, Swimming & Diving, 1973
• John Bishop, Football, 1998
• Sam Burley, Cross Country/Track & Field, 2003
• Katy Cross, Soccer, 2005
• Shaul Gordon, Fencing, 2016
• Mike Hall, Track & Field, 2008
• Jenna Hebert, Women's Rowing, 2016
• Shawn Heinrichs, Wrestling, 1994
• Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Volleyball, 2004
• Michael Lyons, Cross Country/Track & Field, 1993
• Brooks Martino, Wrestling, 2017
• Robert Morse, Basketball, 1972
• Ben Mortensen, Football, 1968
• Mary Jane O'Neill, Fencing, 1986
• Andrei Rodzianko, Wrestling, 1999
• Michael Turner, Football, 1995
• Peter Veldman, Football, 2004