SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. – Senior forward Carson Poffenberger (Morgantown, W.Va./Morgantown) of the Shepherd University men's basketball team has been named the 2025 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's Men's Basketball Champion Scholar Award recipient as announced by the conference office on Saturday prior to the beginning of Shepherd's  2025 PSAC Men's Basketball Championship semifinal game.

Poffenberger has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average through 128 credits in pursuit of a degree in health promotion and exercise science.
 
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 finals sites. 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 90 NCAA championships across all three divisions – I, II, and III.