Penn State Behrend Honors 12 on National Student-Athlete Day
On
April 6 Penn
State Behrend honored 12 of its standout team members on National
Student-Athlete Day.
National
Student-Athletes Day is America's day to recognize the academic and
community service achievements of student-athletes.
Those honored for the 2007-2008 school year include: baseball's
Andrew Chrobak, men's basketball's Ben
Gasbarre (DuBois/DuBois Central Catholic, Doug Straub (St. Marys/Elk
County Catholic), Justin Kovac (Venetia/Peters Township), Thomas
Newman (Girard/Northwestern), and Dan Zeigler
(Johnsonburg/Johnsonburg); women's basketball's Anne Priester (Wattsburg/Seneca)
and Meagan Bielanin (Erie/Mercyhurst Prep); women's swimming's Sara
Breese (West Springfield/Northwestern); women's soccer's Brittany
Barbato (State College/State College); men's tennis player Brad
Nagel (West Alexander/McGuffey); and women's water polo player Jenna
Zeyfang (Erie/Erie First Academy).
NSA Day members earned 3.0 or higher GPAs and served the community
in or around Penn State Behrend. Community service projects
these student-athletes participated in included Habitat for
Humanity, Special Olympics, TOPPS Soccer, Make-A-Wish, Second
Harvest Food Bank, clothing donations, tutoring, volunteering at the
Barber Institute, volunteer tennis coaching for youth players, and
the Lambda Sigma Society service organization.
NSA was created by the
National Consortium for Academics and Sports and North Eastern University’s
Sports in Society. It is co-sponsored by the NCAA & the National Federation
of State High School Associations.