Slippery Rock, Pa. - West Chester University's Joe Messina earned the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference’s Baseball Champion Scholar Award, the league office announced on Wednesday prior to Game 3 of the 2023 PSAC Baseball Championship, hosted by Slippery Rock University.

The senior from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has maintained a 4.0 grade point average through 118 credits in pursuit of a degree in finance.
 
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.