Two seniors from Navy Women's Rugby have been awarded prestigious scholarships to pursue graduate studies overseas.
Abigail (AJ) Ward has received a Rhodes Scholarship, while Charlotte d'Halluin has received a Marshall Scholarship.
Ward was among the list of 32 students nationwide awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for postgraduate study at Oxford University. She is the 56th midshipman to earn the honor and follows on the heels of recent Navy rugby grad Sarah Skinner, who received the Rhodes in 2022 and is pursuing a Master's in International Relations at Oxford.
A computer science major with a Chinese minor, Ward owns a 3.99 cumulative grade-point average and is ranked 28th in Academic Order of Merit amongst the Naval Academy Class of 2024. Additionally, she has garnered academic honors from the Naval Academy in five semesters. She is also, of course, a standout player for the Navy rugby team and athletic achievement is a key component of the Rhodes Scholarship.
A native of Pasadena, Md., Ward was also a recipient of the Stamps Scholarship that allowed her to work with the Asia Foundation Malaysia this past summer to study the impact of technology policy on small and micro entrepreneurs. She also spent the 2023 spring semester in an intensive Mandarin program in Taipei, Taiwan, at National Taiwan University.
Ward plans to pursue a master’s degree in social science of the internet as well as a master’s degree in public policy.
