SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Slippery Rock's Joshua Gose earned the 2025 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference’s Men's Outdoor Track & Field Champion Scholar Award, the conference office announced on Saturday at the 2025 PSAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships' Award Ceremony in Slippery Rock, Pa.

Gose, a graduate student from Lewisburg, Pa., maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average through 126 undergraduate credits in pursuit of a degree in accounting.
 
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.