KUTZTOWN, Pa. - Slippery Rock University's Brayden Long earned the 2023 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference’s Football Champion Scholar Award, the league office announced on Saturday prior to the start of the 2023 PSAC Football Championship Game at Kutztown University.

Long, a junior from Hanover, Pa. (New Oxford High School), has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average through 102 credits in pursuit of a degree in sport management.
 
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.