PSAC NAMES CLARION’S WOLF & LH’S ROBSON TO AWARDS

PETE NEVINS MALE & FEMALE “SCHOLAR ATHLETES OF THE YEAR” 2007

The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference has named Lock Haven's Chris Robson and Clarion's Jamie Wolf as the 2006-07 Pete Nevins Male and Female Scholar-Athletes of Year. 

Selected by the PSAC’s sports information directors, the Pete Nevins Male and Female Scholar-Athlete Awards recognize student-athletes who distinguish themselves in the classroom, as well as in the arena of competition.  To be nominated for the award, student-athletes must first be selected as a Top Ten recipient.

The Top Ten Awards are given to five male and five female candidates following each of the sports seasons throughout the academic year: fall, winter and spring.  A student-athlete has to achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.25 and have reached sophomore athletic standing.

In its 17th year of existence, the awards were renamed this year to honor East Stroudsburg's long-time sports information director Pete Nevins, who passed away in January after a short battle with cancer.

Nevins served as the ESU sports information director from 1969 until his retirement in 2002.  Until his passing, he remained active in the sports realm by writing a weekly column for the Pocono Record which chronicled the achievements of local students who chose to continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level.  A member of the College Sports Information Directors of America, Nevins was inducted into that group’s Hall of Fame in 1987.  Throughout his career, it is estimated that Nevins wrote articles on more than 12,000 ESU athletic events that covered over 5,000 student-athletes. 

The following are biographical sketches of Wolf & Robson:

Jamie Wolf
Senior, ClarionWomen's Diving (South Park/South Park)
Wolf boasts a perfect 4.0 GPA in molecular biology.  The 2007 NCAA II Female Diver of the Year, Wolf won both the 1- and 3-meter national championships while setting the NCAA 1-meter diving record with 453.75 points.  She is a three-time NCAA II Female Diver of the Year (2007, 2005, 2004) and has won an NCAA record seven national championships in eight tries.  She also has been named Clarion's Female Athlete of the Year and a Winter Top 10 selection three times.  Wolf has accepted an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and is going to attend Ohio State University and major in molecular genetics.

Additionally, ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA named Wolf the 2007 At-Large Academic All-American of the Year for the College Division, which, in addition to swimming and diving, recognizes the sports of bowling, crew, fencing, golf, gymnastics, field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, tennis, and water polo for NCAA II, III and NAIA.  She will now be considered for ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA College Division Academic All-America of the Year for all sports, which will be announced in early July.

Wolf becomes just the second female in Clarion history besides swimmer Nikki DiLoreto in 1999-00 to win the league's top honor, and is the fifth overall selection in school history. The other three Clarion winners were Dave Burmeister (Football) 1992, Steve Witte (Football) 1997 and Shawn Colten (Diving) 2003.

Chris Robson
Senior, Lock Haven
Men's Cross Country / Outdoor Track & Field (Lewisbury/Red Land)
Robson, a health and pre-physical therapy major holds a 3.86 GPA.   A four-time Top 10 award winner, Robson has been selected twice to the Fall Top 10 as a member of LHU's cross country team and twice to the Spring Top 10 as a member of the outdoor track & field squad.   His selection this year as the Pete Nevins Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year marks the first time a male athlete from Lock Haven has been honored as the league's Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and just second time overall for LHU since Theresa Kovach (softball) was honored in 1990-91.

The distance specialist earned All-America honors this past season after finishing eighth in the steeplechase at the NCAA Outdoor Championship.  He posted the league's fastest effort for 2007 in the event at the PSAC Championship, winning his second consecutive title with a time of 9:03.28, which also established a new school record. 

Robson also was an All-PSAC performer in cross country with a 16th-place finish in 27:15 at the PSAC Championships, helping Lock Haven earn the team title.  He earned a 27th-place finish at the East Region meet to help guide the Bald Eagles to another team championship and aided LHU's 11th-place finish at

the NCAA Championships.  He has been a key member of the a Bald Eagle squad that has won four consecutive PSAC Cross Country Championships and three out of the last four NCAA East Region Championships.

Will Adair
PSAC Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations