 In 1905 Florida State earned Florida's first Rhodes Scholar. In 1977 Florida State University earned the first female Rhodes Scholar in Florida. In 2008, Florida State undergraduate and football player Myron Rolle earned the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship award. Rolle is the fifth FSU student overall to earn this award and the third since 2005. Joe O'Shea, an FSU Student Body President, and Garrett Johnson, an FSU student athlete, earned the award in 2007 and 2005, respectively. Only thirty-two students in the United States earn the award each year.
