LATHAM, N.Y. – A total of 86 Penn State Harrisburg student-athletes have been named 2019-20 North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Scholar-Athlete selections.
Penn State Harrisburg's total was part of a record 1,026 NEAC Scholar-Athlete selections from 12 full member institutions and nine associate member schools for the 2019-20 academic year.
In order to earn the conference's academic distinction, a student-athlete competing in a conference-sponsored sport must achieve a combined grade point average (GPA) of 3.4 or higher for the fall and spring semesters, while remaining in good standing on his or her team.
Among the honorees is NCAA Division III Statistical Champion (block solos) and NEAC Women's Volleyball Defensive Player of the Year Brittany Ebaugh, as well as all-conference first teamers in women's basketball's Kendis Butler and women's soccer's Mackenzie Haladay and Rhyan Socash. Baseball players Zak Koroneos and Chase Smith began the year on the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's Division III Players to Watch List and ended it with the NEAC's academic accolade.
Most impressively, 11 Penn State Harrisburg student-athletes hold cumulative GPAs of 3.9 or higher after the most-recent campaign, including baseball's Simeon Davis, Brandon Feltman, Hunter Merritt, and Thomas Westers, women's basketball's Laurel Amey and Butler, women's tennis' Courtney Bennett, Abigail Clifford, and Rachael Lim, women's volleyball's Alexis Imler, and men's soccer's Jacob Krantweiss.
Women's basketball and women's volleyball had the highest percentage of student-athletes earn the honor with 10 of each of the team's 13 players recognized (77 percent). Baseball was the top men's squad with 16 honorees (43 percent).
Penn State Harrisburg honorees are:
Baseball
Tyler Aug
Ben Closson
Simeon Davis
Tucker Ell
Brandon Feltman
Zak Koroneos
Austin Kunkel
Hunter Merritt
Luke Myers
Brad Richards
John Rinehimer
Robert Skinner
Chase Smith
Joel Sneeringer
Cade Warrick
Thomas Westers
Men's Basketball
Damian Ares
Brandon Coleman
Donald Friday Jr.
Women's Basketball
Laurel Amey
Kendis Butler
Kayla Cade
Jayla Galbreath
Madison Hemler
Sydney Hemler
Nicole Hill
Katelyn Kosovac
Paige Kubulak
Anna Mahan
Men's Cross Country
Ricardo Lugo
Camilo Ruiz
Alex Terody
Women's Cross Country
Katelyn Gormley
Alyssa Knisley
Abagail Marquardt
Men's Golf
Andrew Fink
Montana Gleason
Men's Soccer
Sami Almouzani
Oscar Cartagena Jr.
Zach Hambleton
Eli Hubbard
Mohamed Kotby
Jacob Krantweiss
Luke Myers
Toma Nichik
Cameron Raudabaugh
Women's Soccer
Jenna Alaoui
Sheila Ansary
Elizabeth Clippinger
Samantha Day
Kaylie Derrickson
Mackenzie Haladay
Eden Haldeman
Madison Hemler
Sydney Hemler
Maggie Keller
Katelyn Kosovac
Haley Sedun
Paige Sharrow
Rhyan Socash
Amanda Thoryk
Haley Vavrek
Hannah Williams
Morgan Wilson
Samara Wilson
Softball
Dominique Emmett
Madelyn Krantz
Madelyn Pyle
Harley Sampson
Natalya Steppe
Samantha Weaver
Men's Tennis
Hubert Aguilar
Nick Rohn
Women's Tennis
Sheiva Ansary
Courtney Bennett
Abigail Clifford
Vaishnavi Datta
Erin Harnish
Rachael Lim
Elysse Mellott
Women's Volleyball
Cheyanna Buckingham
Corrinne Cook
Jewel Crumbley
Brittany Ebaugh
Megan Hamm
Alexis Imler
Olivia Koicuba
Katie Kreider
Anna Ruff
Alyssa Snyder