Slippery Rock University baseball athlete Connor Hamilton and Shippensburg University softball athlete Hannah Marsteller have been named the 2021-22 Pete Nevins Scholar-Athletes of the year, the league announced Friday.
The two honorees were selected by a vote of the league’s sports information directors.
The PSAC Pete Nevins Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards are presented to the top student-athletes who have achieved at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average while competing at an outstanding athletic level. Student-athletes must have been recognized as a conference Fall, Winter or Spring Top Ten Award Winner to be eligible for the honor. The Scholar-Athletes of the Year are chosen by the league's sports information directors and were renamed in 2007 to honor East Stroudsburg’s long-time sports information director, Pete Nevins, who passed away earlier that year. Nevins held his position at ESU for 33 years and it is estimated that he wrote articles on more than 12,000 ESU events that covered more than 5,000 student-athletes.
Hamilton becomes the first Slippery Rock student-athlete to win the award since Marcus Martin (2017-18), while Marsteller earns the first recognition for Shippensburg since Neely Spence (2011-12).
Connor Hamilton
School: Slippery Rock
Hometown / High School: Forestport, N.Y. / Adirondack
Sport: Baseball
Major: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Cumulative GPA: 3.92
Helped lead Slippery Rock to its highest win total since 2009 and berths in the PSAC Tournament and NCAA Tournament hitting .400 with 56 runs scored, 17 home runs and 52 RBI. He slugged .782 with a .514 on-base percentage. Was named the 2022 CoSIDA Baseball All-American of the Year as just the second PSAC student-athlete to earn the accolade and earned PSAC Spring Top 10 honors in June. He is a two-time consensus all-region honoree and a two-time First-Team All-PSAC West selection.
Hannah Marsteller
School: Shippensburg
Hometown / High School: Fredericksburg, Va./Riverbend
Sport: Softball
Major: Biology (Health Prof. Pre-Vet)
Cumulative GPA: 3.54
Marsteller earned 2022 PSAC Spring Top 10 and 2021-22 CoSIDA Academic All-American honor in June. She was named the 2022 Ron Lenz D2CCA Player of the Year, and was a Consensus All-American. She was also a Finalist for the 2022 Schutt Sports NFCAA Division II Player of the Year and was the PSAC East Athlete of the Year. She now has back-to-back Ron Lenz Player of the Year Awards and back-to-back CoSIDA Academic All-American honors, while also back-to-back Spring Top 10 honors.
ABOUT THE PSAC
Headquartered in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division II Conference comprised of 18 institutions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The member institutions are Bloomsburg University, California University of Pennsylvania, Clarion University, East Stroudsburg University, Edinboro University, Gannon University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown University, Lock Haven University, Mansfield University, Mercyhurst University, Millersville University, The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Seton Hill University, Shepherd University, Shippensburg University, Slippery Rock University and West Chester University.
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