KUTZTOWN, Pa. -  IUP's Dan Gibney earned the 2024 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's Men's Cross Country Champion Scholar award, as announced Saturday afternoon after the 2024 PSAC Men's Cross Country Championship. 
 
Gibney, a senior, hails from Stewartstown, Pa. and has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average through 87 credits in pursuit of a degree in Safety, Health, & Environmental Applied Sciences.
 
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.