EAST STROUDSBURG – East Stroudsburg University senior Paul Wagner has been named to the PSAC Spring Top 10, his second scholar-athlete recognition from the conference this year, after winning two PSAC championships and earning All-America honors in the hammer throw during the outdoor track and field season.

Wagner (Titusville, N.J./Hopewell Valley) is a Top 10 recipient for the third time in his career and was previously mentioned on the Spring 2009 and Winter 2010 lists. The awards recognize PSAC student-athletes, five male and five female, at the end of each season for their combined academic and athletic accomplishments.

The Top 10 award winners are eligible for the Pete Nevins Scholar-Athlete of the Year, which is presented to one male and one female recipient and will be announced later this summer. 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.

Wagner, a Sport Management major with a 3.83 grade-point average, won PSAC championships in the hammer throw (197-0) and shot put (51-9 1/4) to earn the PSAC Men's Athlete of the Meet. He scored 25 of the Warriors' 159.5 points as they finished as the men's runner-up for the third straight PSAC championship.

Wagner placed seventh in Division II in the hammer to earn his second straight All-America honor and was an automatic qualifier entering the NCAA Championships with an ESU and PSAC record of 203-2.

He was an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America third team selection last year, with this year's recipients slated for release next week. He was also selected as ESU's Men's Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year and is an eight-time PSAC champion, four-time NCAA participant and two-time All-American. He holds school, PSAC and championship meet records in the weight throw (indoors) and hammer throw (outdoors), with all-time best marks of 66-3 3/4 in the weight and 203-2 in the hammer.

Wagner is one of four PSAC student-athletes to be named to two Top 10 lists this year, along with Mary Dell (Shippensburg), Jennifer Hansen (Slippery Rock) and Chris Edelman (Lock Haven).

A pair of Warriors, linebacker Matt Freed and women's soccer forward Lindsay Foder, were named to the Fall Top 10. Foder will represent the Warriors on the ballot for the Pete Nevins Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.


2010 PSAC Spring Top 10 List

Men
Chris Edelman, Lock Haven, track & field
Kolten Hoffman, Gannon, baseball
Kyle King, Mercyhurst, tennis
Nick Spisak, West Chester, baseball
Paul Wagner, ESU, track & field

Women
Rohini Das, Kutztown, tennis
Mary Dell, Shippensburg, track & field
Jen Hansen, Slippery Rock, track & field
Samantha Ingersoll, West Chester, softball
Maddy Outman, IUP, track & field