East Stroudsburg’s Lauren Reightneour earns PSAC Women’s Cross Country Scholar Athlete Award
East Stroudsburg University senior Lauren Reightneour has been named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Women’s Cross Country Champion Scholar, the league office announced Saturday at the 2020-21 PSAC Women’s Cross Country Championship in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. --- East Stroudsburg University senior Lauren Reightneour has been named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Women’s Cross Country Champion Scholar, the league office announced Saturday at the 2020-21 PSAC Women’s Cross Country Championship in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.
Reightneour is the second ESU women’s cross country student-athlete to earn the award. The last Warriors women’s cross country student-athlete to earn champion scholar honors was Lisa Lower in 2011-12.
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 Birdsboro, Pennsylvania native recorded a perfect 4.0 GPA while majoring in health and physical education.
ABOUT THE PSAC
Headquartered in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division II Conference comprised of 18 institutions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The member institutions are Bloomsburg University, California University of Pennsylvania, Clarion University, East Stroudsburg University, Edinboro University, Gannon University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown University, Lock Haven University, Mansfield University, Mercyhurst University, Millersville University, The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Seton Hill University, Shepherd University, Shippensburg University, Slippery Rock University and West Chester University.