WASHINGTON, D.C. – Navy women's lacrosse student-athlete Anne Richter (Hinsdale, Ill.) has been named a Marshall Scholar, one of the most prestigious honors available to undergraduate students in the US. This year, over 1,000 candidates competed for one of the 48 scholarships awarded.
 
"I was really shocked and it is still sinking in," Richter said of being one of the 48 chosen to receive the scholarship. "Commander (Michael) Flynn asked me to apply for it, but no one goes into the application process thinking that they are going to win. When I was picking my college, one of the things that was most important to me was how can I do lacrosse and engineering. The Naval Academy was the best option that provided both.
 
"I have always loved engineering. My personal statement for the Marshall Scholarship was about when I built a bicycle powered blender in my garage when I was in seventh grade. I have always been obsessed with how things worked."
 
Richter, a mechanical engineering major, is one of 29 midshipman in the class of 2019 selected to be Bowman scholars, and is currently conducting independent research with nuclear applications. Last summer, she completed an internship at Pennsylvania State University working with additively manufactured metals. During her tenure as a midshipmen, Richter has also had the opportunity to travel to Vietnam on a Language Skills, Regional Expertise and Culture (LREC) trip, and to complete the Yukon Canoeing course in Canada through the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).
 
At the Academy, Richter has served as Echo Company Commander leading her peers in the summer training of 80 incoming freshmen, and currently serves as the 2nd Battalion Academics Officer. She is a member of the Navy women's lacrosse team, and was named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll and Eastern College Athletic Conference President's Honor Roll for maintaining a 4.0 GPA while playing a Division I sport. Richter also serves as the captain of the Bystander Intervention Core Team for the Academy's chapter of It's On Us.
 
Richter intends to pursue a master's in additive manufacturing and advanced manufacturing technologies at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, England, and is interested in additive manufacturing, colloquially known as 3D printing, with a focus on working with metals. Following her time in the Marshall Scholarship program, Richter will report to nuclear power school to begin training as a naval submariner.
 
"My first taste of the UK was through lacrosse," Richter added. "I went to Ireland, Scotland, and England when I was younger. I played lacrosse there. It was a cross-section of the country on a team for ambassadorship through athletics. We got to play Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales. This time, I am excited to grow and travel and see some new things. I sat down and wrote a dream list of places I wanted to visit. It is not actually a dream list anymore. I am going to actually be able to do it. I am very excited."
 
About the Marshall Scholarship
Named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall, the Marshall Scholarship Program began in 1953 as a gesture of gratitude to the people of the United States for the assistance that the UK received after World War II under the Marshall Plan. Since that time, it has remained uniquely positioned among national Scholarships for its prestige and scope: offering talented young Americans the chance to study any academic subject at UK universities of their choice for up to 3 years. This has given rise to an unprecedented breadth of expertise in almost every academic field, producing numerous university presidents, six Pulitzer Prize winners, one Nobel Laureate, fourteen MacArthur Fellows, two-academy-Award nominees, two Supreme Court Justices and a NASA Astronaut.
 
With over 2,000 Scholarships awarded to date, Marshall Scholars are leading the conversation and direction of some of the most critical issues of our time. Prominent alumni of the Scholarship program include:
 
● Supreme Court Associate Justices Stephen Breyer and Neil Gorsuch
 
● Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Anne Applebaum, Tom Friedman, Jeffrey Gettleman and Dan Yergin
 
● William Burns, Former US Deputy Secretary of State
 
● Reid Hoffman, Philanthropist and founder of social networking platform LinkedIn.
 
● Anne McClain, NASA Astronaut currently serving aboard the International Space Station.
 
● Joshua Oppenheimer, Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker
 
● Dr. Douglas Melton, Xander University Professor at Harvard University and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 
● Nancy Gibbs, Former Managing Editor of TIME Magazine
 
● Roger Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
 
● Ray Dolby, Inventor of Dolby Sound and former Chairman of Dolby Laboratories
 
For more information on the Marshall Scholarship please visit http://www.marshallscholarship.org.