Senior Steve Dry (Hopkinton, MA), a member of Emory University's track and field program, is one of four seniors at the school who have been selected as recipients of the Robert T. Jones Jr. Scholarship Award for a year of study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Widely known as the Bobby Jones Scholarship, the award was established in 1976 and recognizes individuals who will be excellent representatives of Emory at St. Andrews. Qualities required to fulfill this ambassadorship include intellectual excellence, a record of significant leadership and academic interests that can be pursued through the offerings at St. Andrews. The scholars receive full tuition and a travel stipend for their year of study. In addition, four St. Andrews students are chosen to spend a year at Emory.

 Dry, a four-year member of the men's track and field team, is a double major in chemistry and religion who claims an impressive overall grade-point average of 3.99. During his track career he has captured All-University Athletic Association honors on four occasions, twice in the 55-meter hurdles and twice in the 110-meter hurdles.  At the 2008 UAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, he captured first place in the 55-meter hurdles.  While at St. Andrews, he plans to pursue course work in medical chemistry in preparation for graduate work in that field. 

A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he received a grant from the Point Foundation to conduct research for his honors theses in Sweden in summer 2009.

The winners of the Jones Scholarship are selected after application and interviews.  A committee of Emory faculty, administrators, former Bobby Jones Scholars and trustees of the Robert T. Jones Advisory Committee then tab four recipients and two alternates.

"No one is more excited for Steve Dry being awarded the Bobby Jones than I and the rest of his teammates," said Emory head track and field coach John Curtin. "He may be the hardest working and most universally liked person on our team.  Steve has been a UAA Champion and a provisional national qualifier in the high hurdles, but more importantly he has been a real team guy in every respect.  It is kind of ironic, but Steve's old teammate and hurdle buddy Katie Sheehan is in St. Andrews right now having won a Bobby Jones Scholarship last year.  To do all you have to as an athlete and achieve this level of scholarship is inspiring."