BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- IUP graduate student Karolin Kirchtag has been named the PSAC Women's Tennis Champion Scholar, the league office announced Friday prior the semifinals of the 2023 PSAC Women's Tennis Championship. Kirchtag was also named the PSAC Women's Tennis Champion Scholar in the 2021-2022 season.
 
In her fourth year with the team, the Salzburg, Austria native has maintained a 4.0 GPA through 137 undergraduate credits and her current pursuit of a master's degree in sports science.

The PSAC Champion Scholar Awards are modeled after the NCAA's Elite 90 award and honor the student-athlete with the top grade point average who is competing at the site of each of the PSAC's finals sites. The selection criteria for the Champion Scholar Awards is identical to that of the NCAA Elite 90 awards, which honor the student-athlete with the top GPA at each of the championship finals sites of the 90 NCAA championships across all three divisions – I, II, and III.
 

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