Swimming's Ahalya Lettenberger Named a 2024 Marshall Scholar
12/11/2023 4:31:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
HOUSTON, Texas — Rice swimmer graduate senior Ahalya Lettenberger has been named a recipient of the 2024 Marshall Scholarship by the British Government, it was announced on Monday.
The Marshall Scholarship program was created by an Act of British Parliament in 1953 as a living memorial to former US Secretary of State General George C. Marshall and the USA for assistance under the Marshall Plan. The scholarship allows for up to three years of graduate study in any academic topic at any university in the UK..
Lettenberger is one of 51 winners of the Marshall Scholarship in 2024, the largest class in the seven decades-running scholarship program. The recipients, considered among America's most accomplished undergraduate university students and recent graduates, were chosen following an intense selection process and will begin graduate studies at top universities across the United Kingdom next year.
In addition to her academic studies, Lettenberger has competed for Rice swimming for the past five seasons. She was a silver medalist in the S7 200-meter individual medley at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, also placing fourth in the 400-meter freestyle. Lettenberger also won silver medals in the 400-meter freestyle at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships and the 2019 World Paralympic Championships and a bronze medal at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships.
Lettenberger is the first Rice student-athlete to win the Marshall Scholarship since Justyna Gudzowska in 1999 and the first Rice student to win the award since Jackson Neagli in 2018.
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