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Led by a program-record number of selections from five programs, a group of 96 Lycoming College student-athletes earned a slot on the 2023 MAC Winter/Spring Academic Honor Roll to give the athletic department a record number of 185 selections in 2022-23.
The men's basketball program blasted by its past high-water mark of eight MAC Academic Honor Roll selections by posting 10 in spring 2022 and the softball team bested its top mark of Academic Honor Roll selections by two, posting 14 and tying or breaking their program-best mark for the third year in a row. The men's tennis (6, 2022), wrestling (12, 2020) and women's tennis (10, 2017) programs all tied their program-best mark.
Lycoming's 185 selections in 2022-23 smashed the record of 168 set in 2021-22.
Ten seniors -- Luke Finkbeiner (men's basketball), Katherine Brown (women's swimming), Connor Fulmer (wrestling), Hunter O'Connor (Jersey Shore graduate, wrestling), Preston Rogers (wrestling), Nathan Redell (Wellsboro graduate, men's tennis), Madalyn Bechdel (Central Mountain graduate, softball), Kaleigh Kinley (softball), Morgan Wetzel (Central Mountain graduate, softball), Payton Whary (softball) -- wrapped up their careers a perfect 4 for 4 in MAC Academic Honor Roll selections, earning the award in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The academic honor roll is comprised of student-athletes that wrapped up their championship season in the spring and registered a term/semester GPA of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale) or higher.
• Penn College tied a school-record with 100 student-athletes selected as United East Scholar-Athletes. The Wildcats matched their previous high mark of 100 selections in 2021-22. Penn College finished third among the conference’s full-time members. Lancaster Bible (115) and Penn State Harrisburg (102) finished ahead of Penn College.
The annual list of honorees continues to illustrate the remarkable geographic diversity of the league and its member institutions with United East Scholar-Athletes representing 30 different states and 10 different countries. The list includes 94 student-athletes with perfect 4.0 GPAs as well.
Penn College featured 23 student-athletes with perfect grade point averages for the academic year.