ERIE, Pa. – Penn State Behrend has won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Institutional Peak Performer Award for the 2020-21 academic year.
The Behrend Lions are earning the honor for the first time in the 10 years of the conference bestowing this annual award. The AMCC honors the 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, after earning four Team Peak Performer awards earlier in the week (baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, women's swimming and diving).
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.
