LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – IUP men's track and field senior Derek Noll was named to the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Spring Top 10 Team, announced by the league office Tuesday afternoon.
 
Initiated in the 1997-98 academic year, the PSAC Top 10 Awards are designed to recognize student-athletes who excel in both the classroom and in athletic competition. The Top 10 Award is selected by the conference's sports information directors and given to five males and five females in each athletic season: fall, winter and spring.
 
This is Noll's first career PSAC Top 10 honor, as he becomes just the fourth IUP men's track and field athlete to achieve the feat.
 
Noll was a criminology major with a 3.71 cumulative grade point average, and was a member of the 2019 USTFCCA All-Academic Team. He wrapped up his final season with the Crimson Hawks this May by earning first team All-American honors in the 800 meters at the 2019 Division II Outdoor Championships, the first All-American honor of his career.

Noll was also the PSAC outdoor champion in 800 meters with time of 1:52.26 and was responsible for 23 of IUP's 61 points at PSAC Outdoor Championships. He finished the year ranked second in Atlantic Region in the 800 with personal best time of 1:50.35. Noll accomplished that PR at the LHU Qualifier in May, breaking the stadium record in the process. He was also named to the 2019 USTFCCA All-Atlantic Region team for the 2019 NCAA Division II Outdoor season as well.

In addition to winning the 800 at the LHU Qualifier, Oliver Nikoloff Open, and the PSAC Championships, he also won the 400 meters and was a member of the winning 4x400 relay team at the SRU Open during the outdoor season.

Noll's spring accomplishments were a continuation of what proved to be an exceptional senior season, as during the winter he won titles in the 800 meters and 4x800 relay at PSAC indoor championships, earning indoor All-Atlantic Region honors in 800 meters.

He finished his career as a three-time All-Atlantic Region winner in the indoor 800 meters, outdoor 800 meters, and indoor Distance Medley Relay. Noll was also a four-time PSAC Champion in the 4x800 (twice), and 800 meters (twice), and won 17 events during career, including 11 during his senior indoor and outdoor seasons.
 
2018-19 PSAC Spring Top 10
The complete 2018-19 Spring Top 10 Team includes (women) Sami Barnett, West Chester; Tamara Jennings, Kutztown; Emily Maseth, West Chester; Bekah Slattery, Lock Haven; and Abby Wagner, Shippensburg. The men's awardees include Jared Melone, West Chester; Jack Goertzen, Shippensburg; Matt Cocorikis, IUP; Ryan Clifford, Mansfield; and Derek Noll, IUP.

IUP's PSAC Top 10 honors
Noll joins IUP men's golf senior Matt Cocorikis as a PSAC Spring top 10 Honoree. They give IUP 59 total top 10 awards since 1997-98, the third most in conference history. Shippensburg has 71 and Slippery Rock has 65 to make up the top two in the conference.

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