Golden Bears Casey Brown of California women's gymnastics and Anna Molloy of women's golf are the winners of the annual Oscar and Theodore Geballe Postgraduate Scholarship - recognized for their combination of excellence in both academics and athletic competition. Brown and Molloy will each be awarded a $10,000 stipend for their postgraduate studies.
 
The Oscar and Theodore Geballe Award was created through the generosity of Dr. Theodore Geballe to honor his father, Oscar Geballe, and recognizes his strong belief in the value of combining scholarship and intercollegiate athletic competition. There have now been 110 Geballe Award winners since 1981.
 
Brown graduated from Cal earlier this month with a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering science and bioengineering. She was an immediate contributor to the women's gymnastics team, competing 13 vaults during her freshman campaign. As a sophomore, she competed seven vaults and two uneven bars routines to help Cal achieve its highest team finish in history as the NCAA runners-up. She became a mainstay in the uneven bars lineup as a junior, tallying five podium finishes. Brown capped her collegiate career with a stellar senior season, regularly competing on vault, uneven bars and floor and hitting on all 41 routines she competed throughout the season. She compiled seven podium finishes and was named to the ACC All-Championship vault team with her fourth-place finish at the conference championship.
 
In the classroom, Brown was a model student-athlete whose academic success was recognized with 2026 All-ACC Academic honors, multiple WCGA Scholastic All-American recognitions and as Cal's recipient of the prestigious Anna Espenschade Award for being the top graduating female student-athlete in the class of 2026. She also founded the Berkeley Engineering Athlete Network, which created a mentorship structure connecting younger student-athletes at Cal with upperclassmen in engineering to foster a support system of peers balancing the academic demands of the engineering degrees at UC Berkeley with competitive Division 1 athletics. This fall, Brown will continue her studies at Imperial College London's Dyson School of Design Engineering where she will pursue her master's degree in Cleantech Innovation.
 
"Whether I'm solving environmental and healthcare problems, refining routines in gymnastics, or building organizations to support the Cal Athletics community, I've consistently followed the same approach: identifying needs, developing solutions and implementing them in ways that create real impact," Brown said. "The Oscar and Theodore Geballe Post-Graduate Scholarship represents more than financial support. It represents recognition of the scholar-athlete model that has defined my time at Berkeley. My experiences in gymnastics, engineering and leadership have been interconnected components of a single trajectory: becoming an innovator capable of designing solutions to complex global environmental challenges. I am committed to applying the discipline, creativity and perseverance I have developed at Berkeley to design innovations that contribute to a more sustainable and equitable future."
 
Molloy also recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics and will continue her studies at Imperial College London this fall, pursuing her master's degree in Artificial Intelligence. Molloy was a member of the 2025 ACC-All Academic team, and the 2024 Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll. She had the highest GPA on the team for two years straight in 2024 and 2025, earning the Golden Bear Achievement Award both years. Additionally, she held a role on the executive board of Golden Girls – a student-athlete run organization dedicated to fostering community among female athletes at Cal.

Molloy played in 16 events in her four-year career with Cal women's golf, with a career average of 76.48 strokes per round. She recorded five rounds under par during the course of her career, and her best finish came at the Silicon Valley Showcase this season on March 30-31, where she shot an 11-over-par 224, tying for 24th place, the first top-25 finish of her career. This season she played in six events, earning a 76.17 stroke average per round.
 
"Completing a degree in physics has been demanding, yet highly rewarding," Molloy said. "I have spent this past year combining the knowledge I have gained across different branches of physics such as classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism and applying it to experiments that display the extraordinary phenomena we learn about. The intersection of quantum mechanics and machine learning will transform the technology industry in years to come by enabling us to solve complex optimization problems that were previously impossible using classical computers. I believe that the combination of a physics bachelor's and a master's in AI will be powerful when it comes to a career in technology. I am hugely motivated to succeed in the master's to position myself for whatever comes next, and receiving the support of the Geballe Award is an honor."