Heidi Hatteberg, an AE senior who has been accepted into AE's Graduate School, has been named a Scholar Athlete of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Conference for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Heidi Hatteberg, an AE senior who has been accepted into AE's Graduate School, has been named a Scholar Athlete of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Conference for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Heidi is the school record holder in three different events and qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.  Hatteberg served as the Yellow Jackets' captain in 2011-12, received the team's Tommy Towles Scholar Athlete Award and was awarded the ACC's Postgraduate Scholarship.

The Louixville, KY native is a two-year member of Georgia Tech's Student-Athlete Advisory Board and is involved in all of the team's community service initiatives.

Kevin King, a mechanical engineering major, was also named an ACC Scholar Athlete of the Year.  King is a three-time All-ACC selection and earned ITA All-American honors in 2011.

The awards are presented annually on each campus and recipients are selected by criteria determined by each institution.