IU field hockey's senior defender Mutsa Mutembwa won the Rhodes Scholarship, becoming the fourth student- athlete from Indiana University to win the award.
Mutembwa earned a scholarship to go to University of Oxford, where she is allowed to take any Oxford course to complete her Masters.
All University fees are paid off by the Rhodes trust.
The scholarship could last for two to three years depending on the student.
Other US citizens like Sen. Richard Lugar and President Bill Clinton were also named Rhodes Scholars.
She is also the 14th student to earn the scholarship from Indiana University.
In 1970, William Wolfe, an IU football player, was the last IU student-athlete to win the scholarship.
Throughout the year she has shown leadership on the field, and helped the field hockey team make it to the first round of the NCAA tournament.
She double majored in economics and mathematics during her four years at IU.
Mutembwa plans to become a financial economist and return to her native country to help solve Zimbabwe's tragic struggle with hyperinflation.
Winning the Rhodes Scholarship will help Mutembwa accomplish those goals in the years to come.
