SU's All-Time PSAC Top 10 Winners

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – Junior men's outdoor track athlete Stephen Schelander was named Friday morning to the 2010-11 PSAC Spring Top 10 squad. It is the first career PSAC Top 10 award for Schelander – one of just two SU athletes this season to earn All-PSAC finishes in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track.

Schelander, Shippensburg's 2010-11 Men's Student-Athlete of the Year, boasts a 3.81 cumulative quality-point average in economics. Earlier this month, Schelander earned his second consecutive selection to the Capital One Academic All-District Men's Track & Field/Cross Country Second Team squad.

As an outdoor track competitor, Schelander achieved All-PSAC finishes in the 1,500 (2nd place) and 5K (3rd place) to help Shippensburg culminate its season with the first PSAC “Triple Crown” in league history. He achieved USTFCCCA All-Region honors in the 1,500 meters after a conversion of his mile time at the Millersville Metrics and also in the 5K after running a career PR of 14:28 at the Bison Outdoor Classic.

Overall, Schelander is a 12-time PSAC placewinner and a 7-time All-PSAC award winner.

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; Schelander was honored along with senior outdoor track athlete Bryan Beegle 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.