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EAST STROUDSBURG – East Stroudsburg University junior Tiffany Lapotsky has been named to the 2018 PSAC Winter Top 10 for her athletic and academic achievements, the conference announced on Wednesday.
 
A member of the women's basketball team, Lapotsky (Ashland, Pa./North Schuylkill) earns her first career PSAC Top 10 award. She becomes the first member of the women's basketball to earn the award since Jackie Yandrisevits (winter '08) and third overall (Marie Schlegel, winter '99).
 
The conference list honors five male and five female student-athletes among the conference's 17 institutions. The program requires at least a 3.50 cumulative grade-point average to be eligible for nomination, and each school may nominate two male and two female student-athletes each season.
 
All 30 PSAC student-athletes (15 male, 15 female) selected during the academic year are eligible for consideration for the Pete Nevins Scholar-Athlete of the Year, which is named after longtime ESU sports information director Pete Nevins and is presented to one male and one female in June.
 
Lapotsky, an Exercise Science major with a 4.0 GPA though through five semesters (77 credits), was most recently named to the 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-American second team. She is also a member of the honors program and exercise science club at ESU.
 
She was the first member of the women's basketball program to receive the award since the inception of the CoSIDA Academic All-American program in 1979. In February, Lapotsky was the fourth Warrior to earn Academic All-District accolades since 2005-06.
 
Lapotsky garnered All-PSAC East first team acclaim after pacing the Warriors offensively in field goals (172), 3-point field goals (46), free throws (88), and points per game (17.1). She tallied 478 points and shot 42.9 percent from the field after starting 26 of the Warriors' 27 regular season games.
 
Her 478 points rank eighth all-time for a single-season in program history, while her field goals and 3-point field goals also rank in the top-11 all-time. She scored 10 or more points in 18 consecutive games for ESU during the regular season, finishing a game shy of DeAnna Rayam's 19-game streak during the 2009-10 season. She has been named to the Lehigh Valley Small College Basketball Scholar-Athlete team in each of her first three seasons.
 
The Warriors have had 37 student-athletes earn a total of 55 honors, fifth-most in the 17-school conference, since the PSAC's sports information directors began selecting the lists in 1997-98.
 
 
2018 PSAC Winter Top 10
 
Women
Tiffany Lapotsky – East Stroudsburg
Christina Sather – Clarion
Nadia Mulder – West Chester
Becca Cubbler – Bloomsburg
Abby Wagner – Shippensburg
 
Men
Chance Marsteller – Lock Haven
Dylan North – West Chester
Dante Lombardi – IUP
JJ Ollio – Slippery Rock
Nathan Davis – Seton Hill