LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced its Women’s Indoor Track & Field Major Award winners for the 2025-26 season.
 
The major awards are determined by a vote of the conference’s head coaches. The top three finishers in each event at the PSAC Championships are recognized as All-Conference performers. That list is linked above.
 
Track Athlete of the Year: Lexi Tepper, Bloomsburg
Field Athlete of the Year: Shannon Harnett, East Stroudsburg
Freshman of the Year: Jada Cole, Edinboro
Coaching Staff of the Year: Slippery Rock
 
Bloomsburg’s Lexi Tepper was voted the 2025-26 PSAC Track Athlete of the Year. At this year’s PSAC Championship she won the Mile, 3000m, and anchored the Huskies’ Distance Medley Relay to victory. She also finished second in the 800m and scored 30.5 points for her team, collecting MVP and Track Athlete of the Meet honors. She broke Bloomsburg school records in the 800 and Mile (NCAA provisional time of 4:54.15) during the season.
 
East Stroudsburg junior Shannon Harnett was selected as the 2025-26 PSAC Field Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive season. She was the NCAA runner-up in the High Jump with a height of 1.79m, which is the new all-time PSAC conference record. In the Atlantic Region she was ranked first in the High Jump, sixth in the Triple Jump, and eighth in the Long Jump and is the ESU record holder in all of those events.
 
The 2025-26 Freshman of the Year award went to Edinboro’s Jada Cole. She placed third in the High Jump at the PSAC meet with a height of 1.74m (the Edinboro indoor program record) and finished 15^th at the national meet to earn Second Team All-America.

The Coaching Staff of the Year award was given to Slippery Rock University. This year’s staff led The Rock to its ninth overall PSAC championship and third in a row. The staff also guided four female student-athletes to USTFCCCA All-Region honors.