LHU’s Houck named PSAC Champion Scholar for Women’s Swimming

LOCK HAVEN – Lock Haven standout student-athlete Sydney Houck has been named the PSAC Women’s Swimming Champion Scholar, the league office announced Saturday prior to the final session of the PSAC Swimming Championships in Carlisle, Pa.

A junior from Huntingdon, Pa., Houck is a health science major with a pre-physician assistant track and holds a perfect 4.00 GPA.

Houck becomes just the fourth Lock Haven student-athlete to win the award since it started during the 2011-12 season. She’s the first Lock Haven swimmer to ever win the award and the first Bald Eagle to earn this distinction since Colton Swanson (men’s soccer) during 2021-22. Houck becomes the first Lock Haven female student-athlete to be named champion scholar since 2014-15 when Katherine Sick won the award at the indoor track & field championships.

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.

A PSAC Scholar Athlete, Houck is fresh off a back-to-back finals appearances at the PSAC Women’s Swimming Championships in the100- and 200-yard breaststroke and will compete in the B final of the 200-yard breaststroke tonight. The final session begins at 5 p.m.