NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt student-athletes Caroline Betts and Charlie Clark are the Commodore’s nominees for the 2025 H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar Athlete-of-the-Year award it was announced by the league office on Tuesday.
Each SEC institution nominates one male and one female student-athlete for the award, with the ultimate selection of the two winners being made by the Faculty Athletics Representative Selection Committee. Thirty additional awards, entitled SEC Postgraduate Scholarship Awards, will be given each academic year to the institutional nominees not selected as the SEC Male and Female Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Year.
Betts is coming off a junior season that saw her lead Vandy with 23 points—she recorded nine goals and five assists while playing in all 21 matches—in the fall, including posting her first career brace to help lift the Dores over reigning national champion Florida State to advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time in program history. A medicine, health & society major who completed undergraduate degree in three years, Betts has scored 11 goals and added seven assists while appearing in 58 matches during that span. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she was named second-team Academic All-America by College Sports Communicators in 2024 after earning Academic All-District recognition from the organization each of the last two seasons, and she is a three-time member of SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Clark has participated in 25 contests over the last three seasons for the Commodore football team after sitting out the 2021 campaign as a redshirt. He appeared in all 13 games last fall, seeing action on the offensive line in matchups with Alcorn State, Georgia State and nationally-ranked Missouri while contributing to Vandy’s special teams unit throughout the season. The Madison, Wisconsin, native is a three-time selection to the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll and is set to receive his bachelor’s degree in political science at the school’s commencement ceremony next month. Off the field, Clark has also participated in the annual Dancing Dores Miracle Child Engagement with Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and contributed to the department’s annual Student-Athlete Advisory Council Holiday Party.
The SEC will name the recipients of this year’s H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar Athlete-of-the-Year awards on Wednesday.
