Lynn native Marnelle Garraud has been making an impact on the court for the Boston College women’s basketball team since she stepped onto the court as a freshman. 

But she’s been making an impact off the court as well, and that was confirmed even further this week when the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) announced that Garraud — now a graduate student pursuing her MBA — is one of 54 student-athletes who has been selected as a 2022 Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Postgraduate Scholarship Award recipient.

The Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford and Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarships are awarded to selected student-athletes who intend to pursue a graduate degree following completion of their undergraduate requirements. Each recipient will receive $6,000 toward his or her graduate education. Those honored have performed with distinction in both the classroom and their respective sport, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community.

This year’s class of postgraduate scholarship recipients will be highlighted in a one-hour show on ACC Network that will air in May.

Among those joining Garraud — who has been named to the ACC All-Academic Team multiple times in her career — as recipients of the Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Postgraduate Scholarship were fellow Boston College student-athletes Bolang Meng (men’s fencing) and Ellie Mataya (softball), while Marc McLaughlin (men’s ice hockey) was chosen as an honorary selection. 

An ACC All-Defensive Team selection last season, Garraud is an information systems/business analytics major who graduated in December from the Carroll School of Management before beginning the pursuit for her MBA. She is currently averaging 8.3 points per game and is leading the team in assists (3.6) and steals per game (1.6). 

Garraud and her team had their season ended in the ACC Tournament against Florida State Thursday afternoon, falling by a score of 63-58 despite rallying back from a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter. Garraud had a tough day shooting the ball and only finished with two points, but she also contributed four assists, one rebound and one steal. 

Garraud has stated in the past that even as she pursues her MBA, she still has ambitions to play basketball at the professional level — saying that she wants to play the game as long as she possibly can.

“Sports end eventually, and especially the way the world is right now, unless you are going to the WNBA or playing overseas ― which is obviously a possibility and hopefully a goal of mine as well ― but eventually you are going to have to make money or do something,” said Garraud. “So why waste your time now doing nothing in school or why don’t you find something you are interested in and study hard? And later on, if you build on that, you can make a career out of it if basketball doesn’t work out. That’s always been important to me.”