BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - Slippery Rock University's Steph Keelon earned the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference’s Women's Cross Country Champion Scholar Award, the league office announced on Saturday after the completion of the 2023 PSAC Women's Cross Country Championship at Bloomsburg University.

Keelon, who hails from Canonsburg, Pa. has maintained a 4.0 grade point average through 144 credits in pursuit of a degree in Early Childhood and Special Education.
 
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 finals sites. 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.