SU's All-Time PSAC Top 10 Winners

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – Senior men's outdoor track athlete Bryan Beegle was named Friday morning to the 2010-11 PSAC Spring Top 10 squad. Beegle is the first men's athlete in school history to win multiple PSAC Top 10 awards in the same year; he received a PSAC Winter Top 10 award two months ago.

Beegle is a criminal justice major who graduated in May with a 3.80 grade-point average. Earlier this month, Beegle was honored with a selection to the 2010-11 Capital One Academic All-District Men's Track & Field/Cross Country First Team. Academic All-America selections will be announced next week.

During the outdoor track & field season, Beegle navigated torrential rain at the 2011 PSAC Championships to finish fifth in the 1,500 meters – helping Shippensburg culminate its season with the first PSAC “Triple Crown” in league history. He earned USTFCCCA All-Region honors for his season PR in the 1,500 meters – a terrific time of 3:49.11 at the Fred Hardy Invitational – but was unable to compete at the NCAA championships due to a previous commitment. Beegle also posted a career PR in the mile (4:07.83) at the Millersville Metrics.

Beegle has exhausted his eligibility as a cross country athlete but still has one season remaining in which he can compete as a graduate student in both indoor track & field and outdoor track & field. He redshirted indoors in 2007-08 and outdoors in 2008-09.

In his track career, Beegle is a 5-time NCAA indoor provisional qualifier and a 2-time NCAA outdoor provisional qualifier. He is a 13-time PSAC placewinner, 9-time All-PSAC award winner and a 4-time PSAC champion. He was named the 2009 PSAC Indoor Meet co-MVP along with East Stroudsburg's Chris Reddick.

It is the eighth consecutive competitive season that Shippensburg has had a PSAC Top 10 award winner. SU had three of its athletes receive PSAC Spring Top 10 awards; Beegle was honored along with junior outdoor track athlete Stephen Schelander and junior women's outdoor track athlete Neely Spence.

With its three honorees on Friday, Shippensburg maintains the lead among league institutions with 47 career recipients of the PSAC Top 10 award. Clarion has 39 all-time honorees while Edinboro boasts 38. IUP, Slippery Rock and East Stroudsburg have totaled 37 award winners.

Shippensburg led the PSAC in 2010-11 with seven PSAC Top 10 awards spanning the fall, winter and spring. No other conference institution achieved more than four Top 10 awards during that time span.

The PSAC Top 10 awards were first granted in the fall of 1997.