BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- Mercyhurst sophomore Juan Carlos Hernandez Briones has been named the PSAC Men’s Tennis Champion Scholar, the league office announced Saturday prior the semifinals of the 2023 PSAC Men’s Tennis Championship. 
 
In his second year with the team, the Alicante, Valencia, Spain native has maintained a 4.0 GPA through 49 undergraduate credits in his current pursuit of a degree in business economics.

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.