Slippery Rock's Joseph Sibeto Claims PSAC Baseball Champion Scholar Accolade
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. --- Slippery Rock senior Joseph Sibeto was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Baseball Champion Scholar, the league announced Tuesday afternoon.
Sibeto is the second The Rock player to earn the award in the sport.
Despite the cancellation of the 2020 PSAC Spring Championships due to COVID-19, the league will honor Champion Scholars for all spring sports including: baseball, softball, outdoor track and field, women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s tennis.
The PSAC Champion Scholar Awards are modeled after the NCAA's Elite 90 award. 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.
Each year, the Champion Scholar is awarded to the student-athlete with the highest GPA at all of the league’s 23 championship finals sites. Because the 2020 PSAC Spring Championships were cancelled, the PSAC opened the award to all student-athletes who met the criteria of: having completed a minimum 48 credit hours and those who are in at least their second year of competition.
The Oakdale, Pa., product and Chartiers Valley graduate has amassed 117 credits towards his criminology degree while boasting a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
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