KUTZTOWN, Pa. - West Chester's Alina Burger earned the 2025 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference’s Field Hockey Champion Scholar Award, the conference office announced on Friday prior to the opening game of the 2025 PSAC Field Hockey Championship semifinals in Kutztown, Pa.

Burger, a senior from Koenigs Wusterhausen, Brandenburg, Germany in her third year with the program, maintained a 4.0 grade point average through 104 credits in pursuit of a degree in psychology
 
The PSAC Champion Scholar Awards are modeled after the NCAA's Elite Scholar-Athlete Award (formerly 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 Scholar-Athlete 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.