San Antonio - Trinity senior women's soccer player Abby Loar has been awarded the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.

Loar is Trinity's 34th student-athlete to receive the scholarship, and the Tigers are ranked in the top 10 in Division III for Postgraduate Scholarship recipients.  Each of the winners are awarded a grant in the amount of $7,500.

Loar earned All-America honors each of the past two seasons, and was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Year for the second consecutive season in 2011.  She led Trinity to a 22-1 record last fall, advancing to the third round of the NCAA Playoffs.

Loar was named the D3soccer.com National Forward of the Year in 2011, and was named an All-American by both D3soccer.com and the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.  She also earned NSCAA Scholar All-America honors each of the past two seasons.

With 21 goals this past season, Loar broke Trinity's school record for career points and career goals scored, and improved to third in school history in career assists.  She is the only Tiger player in history to score 15 or more goals in three different seasons (2009, 2010, 2011), and is just the fourth to score 20 or more goals and 50 or more points in one year.

Loar is the second women's soccer player in the past two seasons to earn the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship (Danika Wright, 2010-11), and is the fourth Trinity student-athlete to earn the award since the start of the 2010-11 season.