Wyatt Ewing, a senior at Winner High School, has earned a $7,000 Coyote Commitment Distinction Scholarship,
which is awarded by the University of South Dakota to academically talented seniors who have been admitted for Fall 2017.
This award is based on strong standardized test scores and cumulative grade point average.
Ewing is the son of Wade and Val Ewing and plans to major in medical biology.
The fall 2016 incoming class at USD received $6.8 million in scholarships for academic, artistic, athletic or other successes. Sixty-two percent of new students on the Vermillion campus received awards from the USD Foundation, other USD accounts and from other private sources outside the university.