Appalachian State senior volleyball standout Dianna Thomas and Furman senior track and cross country star Elizabeth (Page) Bridges each were among 58 NCAA fall sport student-athletes to earn NCAA Post-Graduate scholarships.

Thomas, honored as a CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American, is a right-side hitter is the first Mountaineer since the 2002-03 academic year to win.

Thomas recorded 395 kills, 306 digs and 86 blocks as she helped lead the Mountaineers to a second-place finish in the Southern Conference this season. She hit .255 and became the school’s all-time kills leader with 1,476.

Along the way, Thomas was named the SoCon Student-Athlete of the Week on October 31 and was named second team all-conference at season’s end. The right side hitter will graduate in May with a degree in exercise science, and has held a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade point average.

Bridges set school record in the 3,000m Steeplechase in 2007 with a time of 11:10.32, breaking her previous record of 11:19.38. Bridges set a career-best time of 10:40.06 in the 3,000-meter run at 2006 Clemson Invitational and set a career-best time of 5:21.94 in the indoor one-mile event in 2005. In cross country, she set a personal-best time in 5-kilometer event with a mark of 18:54.18 at the 2006 SoCon Cross Country Championships. She is a member of the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.