Shippensburg's Gracee Tothero Earns Women's Swimming Champion Scholar Award
Photo Credit to Dave Leisering
YORK, Pa. ---Shippensburg junior Gracee Tothero was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Women’s Swimming Champion Scholar, the league office announced Saturday evening at the PSAC Swimming Championships in York, Pa.
Tothero is the first Raider to earn the award in the sport.
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 90 NCAA championships across all three divisions – I, II, and III.
The State College, Pa., native and State College Area graduate has amassed 87 credits towards her biology major while sporting a perfect 4.0 GPA.
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