LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – For the third time in her career, Clarion University’s Hannah Heeter is a PSAC Top 10 Award winner, this time for Fall 2013.

Heeter, from nearby Seneca, Pa. and Cranberry High School, joins Jamie Wolf and Kayla Shull as the only three-time Clarion winners of the Top 10 Award, which is awarded in the Fall, Winter and Spring each season to five male and five female athletes judged to be the best scholar-athletes both academically and athletically in those seasons by the conference Sports Information Directors.

Carrying a 3.963 GPA in Pre-med/Biology, Heeter, a senior in the classroom and on the volleyball court and a junior in basketball, is a multisport star for the Golden Eagles starting on both NCAA Division II qualifying volleyball team and the women’s basketball team and earning All-PSAC West and All-Region honors in both sports.

Just the 20th PSAC female athlete to win the Top 10 Award at least three times, Heeter joins IUP’s Lauren Hall (volleyball) and Molly Carr (basketball and softball) and Shippensburg’s Lauren Beckley (basketball) as the only three-time winners of the award who strictly played ball sports.

The Fall 2013 PSAC Top 10 Award is just one in a long-line of academic and athletic awards for Heeter, who is a three-time Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-American including being named a first-team Academic All-American this past fall in volleyball as well as the Academic All-American of the Year in volleyball. She was a second-team Academic All-American in both volleyball and basketball during the 2012-13 school year and was also named the Female PSAC Pete Nevins Award winner as the top female scholar-athlete in the conference as well as the Female NCAA Division II Conference Commissioners Association Atlantic Region Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She is also a four-time Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District selection (three volleyball and one basketball).

On the playing court, Heeter was a 2013 Daktronics first-team All-Region and AVCA All-Region selection in volleyball and first-team All-PSAC West after being an AVCA All-Region choice in 2012 and a second-team All-PSAC West selection. She was a first-team All-PSAC West selection in basketball for the 2012-13 season as well and was also named a second-team Daktronics All-Region choice in basketball the same season after being named a second-team PSAC West choice and the PSAC West Freshman of the Year (redshirt season) in 2011-12.

NOTES — Heeter’s selection to the Top 10 Award marks the 47th time a Golden Eagle has won the award, the second most Top 10 Award winners in PSAC history behind Shippensburg’s 52 … Wolf (2005, 2006, 2007) and Shull (2011, 2012, 2013) were both award winners for their work in diving and swimming respectively … Additionally multiple-time winners of the award from Clarion including Erin Richard (track & field/cross country — 2), Lisa Baumgartner (tennis — 2), Ashley Grimm (basketball — 2), Gary Aughinbaugh (swimming/diving — 2), Dan Pierce (swimming/diving — 2), Christina Tillotson (swimming/diving — 2) and Tracey Barnette (volleyball — 2).