GREENSBURG, Pa. - Slippery Rock's Charleigh Rondeau earned the 2024 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's Women's Lacrosse Champion Scholar award, as announced Friday afternoon prior to the start of The Rock's game against West Chester in the 2024 PSAC Women's Lacrosse Championship.
Rondeau, in her fifth year of eligibility, hails from Buffalo, N.Y. and has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average through 143.5 credits in pursuit of a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering.
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.