EAST STROUDSBURG - East Stroudsburg University's Senior Scholar-Athletes of the Year, Chris Bach and Jackie Yandrisevits, were both named as recipients of the Winter Top 10 Award on Tuesday by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.

The Top Ten Awards, selected by the PSAC's sports information directors, recognize five female and five male student-athletes each season who distinguish themselves in the classroom as well as in the arena of competition.

Bach (Levittown/Harry S Truman), the first basketball player to earn ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors in school history, and Yandrisevits (Wind Gap/Nazareth), a two-time Academic All-District selection and the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,784 points, will both be eligible to receive the Pete Nevins Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award, which is given to one male and one female candidate at the end of the academic year. Nevins was ESU's sports information director for 33 years, from 1969 until his retirement in 2002.

Both student-athletes were also recognized as ESU's Senior Athletes of the Year at the annual Athletic Awards Banquet on Sunday, marking the second time in 28 years that the same student-athletes were honored with both awards.

Bach was also a Top 10 recipient last winter, while Yandrisevits is being honored for the first time. ESU and Shippensburg are the only two schools in the PSAC with two Top 10 award winners for the winter sports season.

A graduate student in Exercise Science with a 3.82 grade-point average as an undergraduate in Sport Management, Bach was a two-time All-PSAC East selection and averaged 19.0 points and 9.1 rebounds per game as a senior. He was the president of ESU's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, represented ESU at last year's NCAA Leadership Conference, and delivered the keynote address at ESU's National Student-Athlete Day Celebration and the Athletic Awards Banquet.

Yandrisevits maintained a 3.62 GPA as a Health and Physical Education-teacher certification major and was named to the All-PSAC East team in each of her four years. She was ESU's first All-Region selection in 13 years as a senior, averaging 20.1 points and 8.4 rebounds per game, and was third in the PSAC in scoring and 17th in Division II. She was the only PSAC women's basketball player named to the Academic All-District team the last two seasons.

2008-09 PSAC Winter Top 10 List

Men
Chris Bach, ESU, basketball
Pawel Glowiak, IUP, swimming
Kyle Goldcamp, Gannon, basketball
Jarrod King, Edinboro, wrestling
Ben McConnell, Lock Haven, track & field

Women
Lauren Beckley, Shippensburg, basketball
Mary Dell, Shippensburg, track & field
Jennifer Harpp, Slippery Rock, track & field
Erin Richard, Clarion, track & field
Jackie Yandrisevits, ESU, basketball