LHU’s Sydney Houck named PSAC Women’s Swimming Scholar Champion for second straight season

YORK – Lock Haven standout student-athlete Sydney Houck was named the PSAC Women’s Swimming Champion Scholar for the second straight season, the league office announced Saturday prior to the final session of the PSAC Swimming Championships in York, 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.

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.

Houck, who is the first Lock Haven swimmer to ever win the award, has now done so in back-to-back seasons.

In the past two academic seasons, Lock Haven has brought home four PSAC Scholar Champions, including two from Houck.