Lock Haven, Pa. - The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) is pleased to announce its Spring 2010 Top 10 Award recipients. The PSAC Top 10 Awards, which are selected by the PSAC’s sports information directors, recognize student-athletes who excel in both the classroom and in the area of competition. The PSAC Top 10 Awards are in their 13th season of existence, having been initiated in the 1997-98 academic year.
The Top 10 Awards recognize 10 outstanding student-athletes, five male and five female, for each athletic season: fall, winter and spring. The Spring 2010 Top 10 Award winners are Chris Edelman of Lock Haven, Kolten Hoffman of Gannon, Kyle King of Mercyhurst, Nick Spisak of West Chester and Paul Wagner of East Stroudsburg on the men’s side; and Rohini Das of Kutztown, Mary Dell of Shippensburg, Jennifer Hansen of Slippery Rock, Samantha Ingersoll of West Chester and Maddy Outman of IUP on the women’s side. Dell, Hansen and Wagner are repeat winners of a Spring Top 10 award, with both Dell and Wagner being honored last year and Hansen being honored two years ago. Dell, Edelman, Hansen and Wagner have also already been honored this academic year as Top 10 winners, with Dell being named a Fall Top 10 winner in women’s cross country and Edelman, Wagner and Hansen having been honored as Winter Top 10 winners in men’s and women’s indoor track & field, respectively.
Dell, a senior, closes out her outstanding cross country and track & field career at Shippensburg as a four-time PSAC Top 10 selection - twice this year in the fall and spring, and twice last year in the winter and spring. Hansen, a former PSAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year two years ago before redshirting last year, closes out her career as a five-time PSAC Top 10 selection - three times in the spring in three of the last four years, and twice in the winter, both this year and two years ago. Wagner, a senior, closes out his career as a three-time Top 10 selection, in the spring both last year and this year, and in the winter this year. Edelman, also a senior, was a two-time Top 10 selection this year, in the winter and now spring.
To be a candidate for the PSAC Top 10 Awards, a student-athlete must have achieved a minimum of a 3.50 cumulative grade point average and must be a starter or key reserve with legitimate athletic credentials for their respective team. The spring sports eligible for consideration for the Spring Top 10 Awards are baseball, softball, lacrosse, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s golf and men’s and women’s outdoor track & field. At the end of the academic year, all PSAC Top 10 Award winners from the entire academic year are eligible for the PSAC Pete Nevins Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards, given to one male and one female candidate at the end of the academic year.
Listed below are biographies for the Spring 2010 PSAC Top 10 Award winners:
PSAC Spring 2010 Top 10 Awards
Rohini Das, Kutztown (Women’s Tennis)
Mary Dell, Shippensburg (Women’s Outdoor Track & Field)
Chris Edelman, Lock Haven (Men’s Outdoor Track & Field)
Jennifer Hansen, Slippery Rock (Women’s Outdoor Track & Field)
Kolten Hoffman, Gannon (Baseball)
Samantha Ingersoll, West Chester (Softball)
Kyle King, Mercyhurst (Men’s Tennis)
Maddy Outman, IUP (Women’s Outdoor Track & Field)
Nick Spisak, West Chester (Baseball)
Paul Wagner, East Stroudsburg (Men’s Outdoor Track & Field)
Rohini Das, Kutztown
Women’s Tennis, Senior
Kolkata, India
Major: Finance & Business
Cumulative GPA: 4.00
Das compiled an overall singles record of 20-4, including a nine-match winning streak to finish the season, while playing solely No. 1 singles...She also combined with a few doubles combinations to go 16-8 at doubles, primarily at No. 1 and playing with Ridhima Borooah, with whom she is 14-8, all at No. 1 doubles...In PSAC East play, she was a perfect 5-0 in singles. Das also earned all-PSAC East all-conference honors in both singles and doubles...Under Das' leadership this season, the Golden Bears qualified for the PSAC East playoffs and advance to the conference semifinals...Das was named to the CoSIDA Academic all-District II College Division first team and was a third team At-Large ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American and was the Kutztown University senior scholar-athlete of the year...She was one of the most dominant tennis performers in Kutztown history...Das is a three-time all-PSAC Scholar Athlete. A finance and international business major, she graduated on May 8...She made the Dean's List four times and is a three-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete...She was also named PSAC East Athlete of the Year for the second straight season after another standout year.
Mary Dell, Shippensburg
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field, Senior
Boiling Springs, Pa./Boiling Springs
Major: Biology/Secondary Education Certification
Cumulative GPA: 3.979
2010 DII Outdoor All-American in 3K Steeplechase (2nd; 10:20.37)...2010 PSAC Outdoor Champion in 1500 (4:33.65)...2010 PSAC Outdoor Champion in 3K Steeplechase (10:52.90)...2010 All-PSAC in 800 (3rd, 2:13.62)...Set PSAC record in 3K Steeplechase (10:20.37)...Finished second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2010 DII National Championships with a time of 10:20.37 that broke the previous meet record and established a new all-time mark in PSAC history...It took a historic meet-record performance by Adams State freshman Alicia Nelson (10:11.48) to keep Dell off the first-place podium...Dell extended her streak of consecutive championship seasons as an All-American to eight, a stretch that dates back to her seventh-place finish with the indoor DMR unit in 2008...She completed her collegiate track and field career as a three-time outdoor All-American and a three-time indoor All-American...Dell was been an All-American in three different events on the outdoor national stage (4x400-meter relay, 1,500 meters, 3K steeplechase)...Dell was a three-time All-PSAC athlete in outdoor competition and won two conference titles, including a victory in the 3K steeplechase by a margin of 10 seconds...She contributed 28 points to a Shippensburg squad that recorded a meet-record 212.5 points and was an integral factor in the program becoming the first in the history of the PSAC to achieve a Triple Crown by winning the cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field championships in the same calendar year since the PSAC began sponsoring an indoor championship in 2002...Dell, a three-time PSAC Top 10 award winner and a CoSIDA National Academic All-American, is just the fifth student-athlete in school history to earn a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship...Honors: 2008-09 CoSIDA National First Team Academic All-American (XC/Track)...2008-09 Shippensburg University Student-Athlete of the Year...2009 PSAC Fall Top Ten Award Winner...2009 PSAC Winter Top Ten Award Winner...2009 PSAC Spring Top Ten Award Winner...2009 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team Member...2008 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team Member...2010 DII Indoor All-American in DMR (2nd; 11:31.29)...2010 DII Outdoor All-American in 3K Steeple (2nd; 10:20.37)...2009 DII Indoor National Champion in DMR (1st; 11:24.54)...2009 DII Outdoor All-American in 1,500 (6th; 4:33.38)...2008 DII Indoor All-American in DMR (7th; 12:01.38)...2008 DII Outdoor All-American in 4x400M relay (8th; 3:45.89)...2010 - Set All-Time PSAC Indoor Track Record in 4x800M relay (9:04.77)...2010 - Set All-Time PSAC Indoor Track Record in DMR (11:24.54)...2010 - Set All-Time PSAC Outdoor Track Record in 4x800M relay (9:02.85)...National Competition: 10-Time Division II Automatic Qualifier...6-Time Division II All-American...6-Time Division II Provisional Qualifier...1-Time Division II National Champion...2010 Division II Indoor All-American (DMR)...2010 Division II Indoor Automatic Qualifier (Mile)...2010 Division II Indoor Provisional Qualifier (800)...2010 Division II Indoor Provisional Qualifier (5K)...2010 Division II Outdoor All-American (3K Steeple)...2010 Division II Outdoor Automatic Qualifier (1500)...2010 Division II Outdoor Provisional Qualifier (800)...2009 Division II Indoor National Champion (DMR)...2009 Division II Indoor Automatic Qualifier (800)...2009 Division II Indoor Automatic Qualifier (Mile)...2009 Division II Indoor Provisional Qualifier (4x400M relay)...2009 Division II Outdoor All-American (1,500)...2009 Division II Outdoor Provisional Qualifier (800)...2008 Division II Indoor All-American (DMR)...2008 Division II Outdoor All-American (4x400M relay)...2008 Division II Outdoor National Qualifier (800)...2007 Division II Indoor Provisional Qualifier (400)...PSAC Competition: 2008 PSAC Indoor Championships Meet MVP...2007-08 PSAC Women's Track and Field Rookie of the Year...29-Time PSAC Place Winner...24-Time All-PSAC Award Winner...7-Time PSAC Champion...2007 Indoor - 55 (8th), 200 (5th), 400 (2nd), 4x400 (4th)...2007 Outdoor - 400 (5th), 4x100 (3rd), 4x400 (3rd)...2008 Indoor -1600 (2nd), 800 (3rd), 4x400 (1st), 4x800 (1st), DMR (2nd)...2008 Outdoor - 800 (2nd), 1500 (2nd), 4x100 (4th), 4x400 (2nd)...2009 Indoor - 800 (1st), DMR (1st), Mile (3rd)...2009 Outdoor - 800 (2nd), 1500 (3rd), 3K (3rd)...2010 Indoor - 800 (2nd), Mile (2nd), 3K (2nd), DMR (1st)...2010 Outdoor - 800 (3rd), 1500 (1st), Steeple (1st)...Indoor School Records: 800: 2:12.84...4x4R: 3:52.77...4x8R: 9:04.77 (PSAC record)...DMR: 11:24.54 (PSAC record, NCAA meet record)...Outdoor School Records: 3KS: 10:20.37...4x4R: 3:45.89...4x8R: 9:02.85 (PSAC record)
Chris Edelman, Lock Haven
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field, Senior
Elverson, Pa./Owen J. Roberts
Major: Health
Cumulative GPA: 3.825
Finished 13th at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor National Championships in the 400…Was recently awarded a NCAA Postgraduate scholarship…At PSAC Championships, finished second in the 400…In prelims at PSAC Championships set matched the all-time PSAC record in the 400 meter dash with a time of 46.57, the time marked an all-time PSAC Championship record and a LHU school record...2010 PSAC Winter Top 10…Dean's List student every semester he was at Lock Haven…2009-10 Indoor Track Season: Converted 400 meter specialist moved up the 800 this year…Second in the 800 (1:55.45) at PSAC Championships...Anchored LHU's second-place 4x400 meter relay team that clinched team title for the Bald Eagles…Ran on third-place DMR and fourth-place 4x800 meter relay at PSAC Championships … ran on Lock Haven's national qualifying DMR … All-time PSAC record holder at 500 meters. 2008-09: Indoor: Grabbed his first All-America honors anchoring the 4X400m relay team to 8th place at Nationals…national qualifier in the 400m…PSAC champion in the 400m and 4x400m relay…Outdoor: Qualified for the NCAA National Championships in the 400m…placed 3rd in the 400m at PSACs…anchored the 4x400m relay to first place at the PSAC Championships. 2007-2008: Indoor - Bucknell, 3rd in 400. PSU Relays- 3rd 4x200, 4th 500m, 7th distance medley, PSU Nat. invite- 6th in distance medley. Outdoor: bucknell- 6th 400m, PSAC champ. 4th 400m, 2nd 4x400 2006-07: Placed second in the 400m at the PSAC Mandate Meet (52.82). Outdoor: Finished second in the 400m at the PSAC Championships (48.24). Placed third in the 400m at the Terrapin Invitational (48.82)… Finished fifth in the 400m at the Last Chance Meet (48.60)…Finished sixth in the 400m at the Bucknell Outdoor Heptagonal (49.61). Personal Bests: 100m 11.04…200m 22.00…400m 48.18…800m 1:58.5. In High School: Competed in track and field and soccer for the Wildcats…Pottstown Mercury Athlete of the Year 2005 and 2006…was coached by Eric Wentzel.
Jennifer Hansen, Slippery Rock
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field, Graduate Student
Charleston, W.Va./Capital
Major: Special Education
Cumulative GPA: 4.0 (undergrad)/4.0 (grad)
Completed career sweeps of outdoor All-America honors and PSAC Championships, earning fourth outdoor and sixth career All-America honor with third-place finish in pole vault at National Championships and earning fourth outdoor PSAC title in the event…Posted second-best clearance in NCAA Division II this season…Best performance of all PSAC and Atlantic Region pole vaulters…Cleared same height at National Championships as winner of the event, but finished third on misses…Best clearance of the season was 4.01 meters…One of only two athletes in the nation to clear 4.0 meters…Earned first team CoSIDA Academic All-District honors...Four-time member of the PSAC Top 10…Two-time ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America selection…Seven-time PSAC champion in the pole vault (three indoor, four outdoor)…Six-time All-American in the pole vault (four outdoor, two indoor)…Injured for entire 2008-09 season…Returned to win PSAC titles in both indoor and outdoor vault this season, earning All-America honors in each season…Holds the SRU and PSAC overall and championship records in the pole vault…Maintained perfect 4.0 GPA through both undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
Kolten Hoffman, Gannon
Baseball, Junior
West Middlesex, Pa./West Middlesex
Major: Mathematics
Cumulative GPA: 4.00
.349 average, 26 runs, 11 doubles, 26 RBI, .484 slugging percentage, .461 on-base percentage, .979 fielding percentage in 2010...CoSIDA Academic All-District II first team two consecutive seasons...Is a PSAC Scholar-Athlete...Hit .338 (26-77) with runners on base and .364 (16-44) with runners in scoring position ...Had 13 multiple-hit games and a team-high seven multiple-RBI games...Ended the season with 18 consecutive games without an error, a stretch of 126 fielding opportunities...Produced three hitting streaks of five games or more.
Samantha Ingersoll, West Chester
Softball, Senior
Ashburn, Va./Stone Bridge
Major: Psychology
Cumulative GPA: 3.91
2010 stats: Played in all 50 games, 157 AB, 37 R, 76 H, 17 doubles, 3 triples, 14 HR, 68 RBI, 141 TB, .898 slugging pct., 32 walks, only 15 strikeouts, .563 OBP, .484 batting average...2nd Team NFCA All-America…1st Team Daktronics, Inc., All-America…1st Team NFCA All-Atlantic Region…Daktronics, Inc., Atlantic Region Player of the year…1st Team Daktronics, Inc., All-Atlantic Region…PSAC East Player of the Year…1st Team All-PSAC East…Broke eight single-season school records in 2010…Won the PSAC triple crown, leading the league in batting average, home runs, RBI…Led the conference in seven different offensive categories…Ranked among Top 10 in the nation in four categories…Her 68 RBI are the second-most in a single season in PSAC history…Her .898 slugging percentage is sixth-best in a single season in PSAC history...Ranks fourth in the NCAA in RBI (68)…Sixth in on-base percentage (.563)…Seventh in hitting (.484)…Ranks 27th in home runs (14)…She was integral in helping West Chester achieve a national ranking for the first time in school history (22nd for two weeks) as well as leading the Golden Rams to the programs first divisional title in the highly competitive PSAC Eastern Division…Her walk-off HR in the bottom of the seventh inning in the PSAC Tournament against Lock Haven forced a second and deciding game, which WCU eventually won to advance to the final round.
Kyle King, Mercyhurst
Men’s Tennis, Senior
Greenville, Pa./Greenville
Major: English
Cumulative GPA: 4.00
2010 National College Athlete Honor Society Member…2010 CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team…2010 third team At-Large ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American...2010 All-PSAC West First Team…2010 PSAC Sportsmanship Award winner...Kyle was a top-three finalist for the Mercyhurst Scholar athlete of the year award…Helped team to first-ever PSAC Tournament final appearance where the Lakers become PSAC runners-up…Advanced to NCAA Tournament…Went 19-6 in singles play and in doubles he went 15-10…Named the PSAC West Athlete of the Week in March...2008-09: PSAC Scholar-Athlete, Mercyhurst Scholar Athlete, ITA Scholar-Athlete...Went 13-4 in singles play and had a perfect 4-0 record against PSAC opponents…7-5 doubles record....2007-08: Mercyhurst Scholar- Athlete, ITA Scholar-Athlete, ITA Academic All-American, went 8-7 in singles play and 12-5 in doubles play...On-campus work includes writing center tutor, history department research assistant, campus newspaper (arts & entertainment editor, copy editor)…Volunteerism includes Second Harvest Food Drive, Habitat for Humanity, Special Olympics, ExpERIEnce Children's Museum, Lincoln Elementary School (helping students form a student newspaper as part of their afterschool extracurricular programming).
Maddy Outman, IUP
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field, Graduate Student
Longmont, Colo./Newton South
Major: Sociology
Cumulative GPA: 4.00 (Grad)/3.52 (undergrad at Williams College)
All-American in the heptathlon, 100 and 400 meter hurdles and long jump at 2010 NCAA outdoor meet…Finished third in heptathlon and set IUP and PSAC record in the event with 5,392 points…Placed fifth in 400 hurdles, lowering her own school record and establishing a new PSAC mark with a time of 58.98…Took seventh in the 100 hurdles and eighth in the long jump…Selected Most Outstanding Track Athlete and Most Outstanding Overall Athlete of the Meet at the PSAC championships…Named PSAC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year...Was conference champion in the heptathlon, 400 meters and 100 meter hurdles and was second in the long jump at the PSAC meet…Led IUP women to fourth place finish by scoring 38 of the team's 68 points...Named the Atlantic Region Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year by the United States Track and Field Coaches Association for the second time in her career in 2010…Selected the 2009 PSAC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year and Most Outstanding Overall Athlete at the 2009 PSAC indoor meet…Finished her two-year career at IUP as a six-time All-American…In addition to her four All-America accolades in 2010 she also finished sixth in the pentathlon at the 2009 PSAC indoor meet and sixth in the 400 meter hurdles at the 2009 outdoor meet…Including her undergraduate career at Williams she was a 13-time All-American and helped lead the Ephs to the Division III indoor national title in 2007…Holds 12 IUP records covering indoor and outdoor track and field and holds PSAC records in the heptathlon, the 100 and 400 outdoor hurdles and the indoor pentathlon…Academically, she was a Graduate Merit Scholarship winner and was awarded a special graduate assistantship with the Mid-Atlantic Research and Training Institute from 2008-10…Served as project director of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week in 2009…Voted IUP and PSAC nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year in 2009…Was a double major in psychology and American Studies at Williams…Named a 1960s Psychology Scholar - a small group of students selected for seminars with leading psychology researches…Has been admitted to law school for this fall but is also considering a professional career in track and field.
Nick Spisak, West Chester
Baseball, Senior
Millersville, Pa./Penn Manor
Major: Non-degree/Post-baccalaureate
Cumulative GPA: 3.84
2010 stats: 53 games played, 198 AB, 64 R, 64 H, 15 doubles, 1 triple, 8 home runs, 40 RBI, 105 TB, .530 slugging pct., 33 walks, 12 HBP, 33 strikeouts, .445 OBP, .323 batting avg....Nick Spisak batted .323 on the year, starting all 53 games that West Chester played…He was a first team All-PSAC East shortstop for the Golden Rams, leading WCU to the PSAC East Division championship for the second straight year…He is a two-time WCU male scholar-athlete of the year winner (2008, 2009)…He also is a two-time CoSIDA academic all-district honoree…Spisak made his fourth appearance on the league's all-star list…He had 64 hits, including 15 doubles, one triple and eight home runs, while knocking in 40 runs…He graduates as the PSAC all-time leader in runs scored with more than 220 in his four years at West Chester…He authored a .530 slugging percentage and a .445 on-base percentage from his second slot in the order…He is a three-time PSAC academic honor roll recipient…Two-time D2 ADA academic honor roll winner…Dean's List member…He has been on the WCU AD academic honor roll all eight semesters in school.
Paul Wagner, East Stroudsburg
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field, Senior
Titusville, N.J./Hopewell Valley
Major: Sport Management
Cumulative GPA: 33.83
All-American in hammer throw (7th, 196-9)...PSAC Men's Athlete of the Meet...Won hammer (197-0) and shot put (51-9 1/4) and placed 4th in discus (152-3)...Scored 25 of ESU's 159.5 points to finish as runner-up for third straight PSAC championship...Set ESU and PSAC records in hammer (203-2) as NCAA automatic qualifier...2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America third team selection...2009 and 2010 first team Academic All-District...ESU's Men's Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year...8-time PSAC champion, 4-time NCAA participant and 2-time All-American...Won four PSAC titles as a senior - weight and shot put indoors and hammer and shot put outdoors...Won three straight PSAC weight and hammer titles...Holds school, PSAC and championship meet records in both events...All-time best marks of 66-3 3/4 in weight and 203-2 in hammer.