RENO, Nev. — Former Wolf Pack swimmer Margaret Doolittle has been named the Senior Scholar for University of Nevada’s College of Business.
Each of the eight colleges honors the graduating senior with the top cumulative grade-point average in the college with the Senior Scholar award each semester. Doolittle earned her bachelor’s degree on Saturday, graduating with a double major in supply chain management and economics and a 3.96 cumulative GPA.
“Margaret Doolittle exemplifies everything that a student-athlete should be, and we are extremely proud of her latest achievement as the College of Business Senior Scholar,” Nevada Director of Athletics Cary Groth said. “Margaret excelled in the pool and in the classroom and is an excellent representative of the University of Nevada. We wish her the best of luck in the future as she pursues her career in business.”
Doolittle earned All-Western Athletic Conference honors and WAC All-Academic accolades all four years in her Wolf Pack career. She captured five individual WAC championships, was part of eight WAC champion relay teams and helped the Wolf Pack to conference championships in three of her four years at the University of Nevada. In addition, she was named a 2009 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District 8 selection.
She started her Nevada career by being named the 2007 WAC Swimmer of the Year after winning the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke at the conference championships. Doolittle followed that up by earning WAC Swimmer-of-the-Year honors after winning three individual events and swimming in two championship relay teams in 2008. She also qualified for the NCAA championships that year. A three-year team captain, she appears in the Nevada career book 10 times (five as an individual and five as a member of relay teams) and holds the best time in school history in the 100 breast and is second in the 200 breast.
A native of Sacramento, Calif., Doolittle plans to return to her hometown to pursue a career in logistics for a few years before returning to graduate school to earn her master’s degree in business administration. She counts Drs. Henry Amato and Dale Rogers, professors in the College of Business, as influential in her educational success.
“They worked extremely hard to build the supply chain management program, and I was so glad I was able to take their classes and get my degree.”
Doolittle also credits her experience in the pool with giving her the skills she needed in the classroom and will use in the business world.
“The drive for competition definitely translates from athletics to academics,” Doolittle said. “All of the skills you learn – teamwork, organization, time management and leadership – that apply to being on a team and being a team captain also to apply to succeeding in the business world.”
