Clarion’s Day, Cal’s Dinzeo Earn PSAC’s Pete Nevins Award

Richard Herman

Richard Herman

Published July 9, 2015 4:20 am
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DayLOCK HAVEN, Pa. — The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced Clarion’s Kristin Day and California’s Aaron Dinzeo as its 2014-15 Pete Nevins Scholar-Athletes of the Year. Day and Dinzeo were selected by the league’s sports information directors.

The Pete Nevins Scholar-Athletes of the Year are presented to the top student-athletes who have achieved at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average while competing at an outstanding athletic level. To be eligible for the Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards, a student-athlete must have been recognized as a fall, winter or spring PSAC Top 10 award winner in the same academic year.

Day is a chemistry major with a concentration in biochemistry who graduated with a perfect 4.0 from Clarion. She was named the 2014-15 Capital One Academic All-America of the Year for Division II. She is only the second ever winner of this award from the PSAC. Day is a three-time NCAA Division II National Champion and eight-time career All-American, won the NCAA Division II one-meter national title this season with 506.85 points, while finishing fourth on the three-meter with 512.20 points. In 2014, she won both NCAA championships in dominating fashion. She won the three-meter springboard title setting a new NCAA record with 539.35 points, winning the event by 52.9 points. The two-time Capital One Academic All-America of the Year for Division II Women’s At-Large followed that with a one-meter national title scoring 497.05 points, winning by 30.2 points. For her efforts she was named the CSCAA NCAA Division II Female Diver of the Year.

Dinzeo, an anthropology major who graduated with a 3.89 GPA, finished second at the NCAA National Championships this season, earning All-America status for the third time in his cross country career. He was the individual champion in both the PSAC and the NCAA Atlantic Region and was selected as the PSAC Cross Country Athlete of the Year and the USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year. Dinzeo was the Capital One Academic All-America of the Year for Men’s Cross Country and Track & Field. Dinzeo is also a three-time Capital One First Team Academic All-American, a seven-time USTFCCA All-Academic, and a seven-time NCAA All-American. He was twice named the PSAC Athlete of the Year in his career (Outdoor Track & Field 2014, Cross Country 2014) and has been named to the PSAC Top 10 list on five separate occasions.

The PSAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards are now in their 25th year of existence. In 2007, the awards were renamed to honor East Stroudsburg’s long-time sports information director, Pete Nevins, who passed away earlier that year. Nevins held his position at East Stroudsburg for 33 years, and it is estimated that he wrote articles on more than 12,000 East Stroudsburg events that covered more than 5,000 student-athletes.

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