Gannon's Joseph Westrick Claims PSAC Men's Cross Country Champion Scholar Honor
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. --- Gannon senior Joseph Westrick has been named the PSAC Men’s Cross Country Champion Scholar, the league office announced Friday at the PSAC Men’s Cross Country Championship in Bloomsburg, Pa.
Westrick is the second Golden Knight to claim the award while it marks the third time a Gannon athlete has been recognized. Garrett Sutton claimed the award the last two seasons.
The PSAC Champion Scholar Awards are modeled after the NCAA's Elite 90 award and honor the student-athlete with the top grade point average who is competing at the site of each of the PSAC's 23 team championship finals. The selection criteria for the Champion Scholar Awards is identical to that of the NCAA Elite 90 awards, which honor the student-athlete with the top GPA at each of the championship finals sites of the 89 NCAA championships across all three divisions – I, II, and III.
The Pittsburgh, Pa., product and Chartiers Valley boasts a flawless 4.0 cumulative grade point average and has accumulated 116 credits towards his environmental engineering degree.
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