PSAC Announcement
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – Slippery Rock University landed 29 student-athletes on the Fall Academic All-Conference team when the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced the first awardees for its newest academic honor.
The Academic All-PSAC teams make their debut this fall and will now be announced after each of the three seasons – fall, winter and spring – to increase academic recognition for high-achieving student-athletes. Undergraduate and graduate student-athletes must meet strict academic and athletic participation requirements to qualify.
Those requirements included owning at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average entering this fall and having completed at least four full semesters of academic work on campus. Transfers that have not been at SRU for four full semesters and freshmen and sophomores that have not completed at least four semesters do not qualify.
For the fall team sports (football, soccer, field hockey, volleyball), student-athletes that met the academic criteria must have also played in at least 70 percent of the team's games to qualify. For cross country, runners must have placed among the top seven for their team in at least three meets or finished in the top half of the field at the PSAC or Atlantic Region Championships to qualify.
The PSAC honored 343 total student-athletes across all 17 schools. Slippery Rock finished with 29 honorees across its seven fall sports, which ranked second among all schools in the conference. Only East Stroudsburg (32) finished with more.
The Rock's field hockey, football and women's soccer teams each had six honorees, while women's cross country, volleyball and men's soccer each had three athletes recognized and men's cross country had two.
The full list of SRU's Fall Academic All-PSAC honorees can be found below.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Ryan Czechowski
John Juszynski
WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Jennifer Cichra
Ruthie Hughes
Lydia Valeriano
FIELD HOCKEY
Julia Boettler
Leah Riegling
Megan Rude
Paige Shannon
Madison Shomo
Haylie Sucharski
FOOTBALL
Teddy Gregory Jr.
Michael Henwood
Eli Podgorski
Luke Pugliese
Joey Reed
Ethan Trettel
MEN'S SOCCER
Rocco Birns
Ryan Hanes
Gabin Lonjard
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Leah Allman
Bailey McGee
Sophia Palermo
Lindsey Price
Sydney Smith
Libby Zacharyasz
VOLLEYBALL
Lauren VonderHaar
Arielle Walter
Jaeden Yost
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