For the second time in three years, Penn State Behrend has earned the AMCC Institutional Peak Performer Award.  

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 60.14% of their student-athletes on the team.  Behrend student-athletes also captured six Team Peak Performer awards (women's soccer, women's tennis, women's swimming and diving, women's basketball, men's basketball and men's wrestling), which recognizes the team with the highest collective cumulative GPA in each sport.

Last year's IPP award winner, Mount Aloysius College, placed second (59.23%) and the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg was third (52.17%).

Across the conference, 939 student-athletes achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher as of the Fall 2022 semester, earning the distinction of being named academic all-conference.

Sixty-six percent (620) of those individuals were tabbed Individual Peak Performers for 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.