QUAKERTOWN, Pa. - Mercyhurst’s Madison Fry has been named the 2023 PSAC Softball Champion Scholar, the league office announced Wednesday prior to the Lakers' first game of the 2023 PSAC Softball Championship.
 
In her fourth year with the team, the Gasport, N.Y. native recently completed her undergraduate degree in early childhood education with a 4.0 GPA through 129 credits and is now in graduate school pursuing a Master's degree.

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.