University Park, Pa. - 41 Penn State Greater Allegheny student-athletes were recognized by the Penn State University Athletic Conference for their outstanding effort both in the classroom and in competition, as each of them were awarded the Academic All-Conference honor.

To be eligible for the Academic All-Conference distinction, a student-athlete must either maintain a semester GPA of 3.0 or higher during their semester of competition or maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher and have at least 24 credits completed. 

The list of the award-winners are as follows, separated by sport:

Baseball
Bill Carter
Clay Groff
Trevor Jaworski
Zach Krivda
Eric Schell
Matt Warhola
Tommy Williams

Men's Basketball
Petrie Addison
Aaron Byrd 

Cross Country
Tammy Bevilacqua
Kasey Dansak
Melissa Loftus
Rob Meier
Rachel Ramsey
Keith Smith

Men's Soccer
Seung Wook Cho
Bangaly Diane
Manoj Sharma
Qimin Sun

Softball
Audra Besnak
Sam Clark
Shelby Bendick
Kasey Dansak
Kim Hall
Ashley Lowenstein
Holly Madeja
Casey Naylor 

Volleyball
Audra Besnak
Adrielle Brisbon
Alyssa Finocchi
Christina Floyd
Kayla Franklin

Women's Basketball
Shelby Bendick
Christina Floyd 

Women's Soccer
Victoria Benedetto
Betel Gebre
Nana Kennedy-Kwofie
Melissa Loftus
Lauren Pruitte
Rachel Ramsey
Jocelyn Randolph

Congratulations to these student-athletes and keep up the hard-work!!!