ERIE, Pa. - Gannon University's Hailey Koch earned the 2024 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference’s Women's Volleyball Champion Scholar Award. Koch was honored prior to Gannon's semifinal against East Stroudsburg University on Friday evening.

Koch, a senior hailing from Littleton, Colo. (Dakota Ridge High School) has maintained a 3.991 grade point average through 102 credits in pursuit of a degree in criminal justice.
 
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.