Penn State Behrend is the 2021 winner of the AMCC Institutional Peak Performer Award. It is the first time that the Lions have earned the conference's top academic honor.

The award is bestowed annually on the AMCC member with the highest percentage of student-athletes named to the Academic All-Conference Team.  The Lions placed 61.67% of their student-athletes on the team.  Behrend captured four Team Peak Performer awards earlier in the week.

Across the conference, 840 student-athletes achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher as of the Fall 2020 semester, earning the distinction of being named academic all-conference.

Seventy eight percent (652) of those individuals were tabbed Individual Peak Performers by earning a GPA of 3.5 or higher.  A special subset of those student-athletes were also selected for induction to Chi Alpha Sigma, the National Collegiate Student-Athlete Honor Society, which recognizes both academic performance, leadership and character for selected juniors and seniors.

Click here for the complete Academic All-Conference Team, including Individual Peak Performers and Chi Alpha Sigma inductees.