LOCK HAVEN, Pa. --  Graduate student center Adam Stilley (Charles Town, W.Va./Martinsburg/WVU) of the Shepherd University football team has been named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's Football Champion Scholar as announced by the league office. Stilley was presented with his award prior to the PSAC Championship game last Saturday.

Stilley is the first champion scholar for Shepherd in football. He boasts a 4.0 GPA while pursuing his MBA at Shepherd.

The PSAC Champion Scholar Awards are modeled after the NCAA's Elite 90 award and honor the student-athlete with the top grade-point average who is competing at the site of each of the PSAC's 23 team championship finals. The selection criteria for the Champion Scholar Awards is identical to that of the NCAA Elite 90 awards, which honor the student-athlete with the top GPA at each of the championship finals sites of the 89 NCAA championships across all three divisions – I, II, and III.