EAST STROUDSBURG - East Stroudsburg University student-athletes Bill Hezel, Kristen Morby and Paul Wagner have all been named to the PSAC Spring Top 10, giving ESU a conference-leading five Top 10 recipients during the 2008-09 academic year, it was announced Wednesday.

All three student-athletes were also named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District team in their respective sports, part of a contingent of 10 Warriors who received Academic All-District recognition this year.

Hezel (Bushkill/East Stroudsburg North), a senior baseball player with a 3.94 grade-point average as a Sport Management major and Business minor, went 5-1 on the mound with a 3.75 ERA in 14 appearances for the Warriors. His five wins were tied for the most on the team as ESU set the school record with 32 victories. Hezel had 36 strikeouts in 36.0 innings pitched as a senior and appeared in 24 games in his career at ESU after transferring from Lehigh University.

Morby (Doylestown/Central Bucks West) of the track and field team was the only ESU student-athlete to graduate with a 4.0 GPA this spring while earning her degree in Biology. A two-time Academic All-District selection, Morby set the school record in the pole vault at 10-6 1/4 as a senior and also held the indoor record during her career with the Warriors.

Wagner (Titusville, N.J./Hopewell Valley) was an All-American in the hammer throw at the 2009 NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships and has a 3.78 GPA in Sport Management through his junior year. Wagner won the PSAC championship in the hammer with a meet record of 190-3 and broke his own school and conference records with a throw of 196-9 to finish sixth at the NCAA Championships. He was won four PSAC titles and holds two school records going into his senior year.

Senior basketball players Chris Bach and Jackie Yandrisevits were named to the PSAC Winter Top 10 and were ESU's Male and Female Senior Athlete and Senior Scholar-Athletes of the Year. They were also two-time Academic All-District selections.

The Top 10 Award winners for the entire academic year are placed on the ballot for the Pete Nevins Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award, which is given to one male and one female recipient. Nevins was the sports information director at ESU for 33 years, from 1969 until his retirement in 2002, and the scholar-athlete award was renamed in his honor after he passed away in January 2007.

ESU has led the PSAC with 10 student-athletes named to their Academic All-District teams in each of the last two years, and Bach was an Academic All-American in men's basketball. Other Academic All-District selections in 2008-09 were Danny Drago and Toric Robinson (men's soccer), Kailyn Buckley and Lynda Hicks (women's soccer) and Matt Freed (football).

2009 PSAC Spring Top 10 List

Men
Trey Bennett, Mercyhurst, baseball
Chris Clark, California, track & field
Bill Hezel, ESU, baseball
Ryan Mostyn, IUP, baseball
Paul Wagner, ESU, track & field

Women
Mary Dell, Shippensburg, track & field
Priscilla Jennings, Millersville, track & field
Kassie Leuschel, Clarion, tennis
Kristen Morby, ESU, track & field
Sonia Petrosoniak, California, softball