For the second straight year, Pitt-Johnstown senior basketball standout Ian Vescovi earned a spot on the 2015 PSAC Winter Top-10 List.  This year's 10 recipients were chosen by the league's sports information directors are designed to recognize student-athletes who excel in both the classroom and in athletic competition... (Full PSAC Release)

Initiated in the 1997-98 academic year, the Top 10 Award is given to five males and five females in each athletic season: fall, winter, and spring. The winter 2014-15 award winners are Sabrina Anderson of Slippery Rock, Adam Blazek of Gannon, Micah Cattell of Edinboro, Kristin Day of Clarion, Yuri Fernandes of IUP, Emilee Gysegem of Clarion, Tyler Melius of Slippery Rock, Lindsay Stamp of IUP, Ian Vescovi of Pitt-Johnstown, and Alex Zanella of California.
 
Blazek, Day, and Vescovi are now two-time winners of the PSAC Top 10 accolade, as they were all honored last winter. Vescovi and Stamp also earned CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-America honors this winter in men and women's basketball, respectively.

Nine of the ten student-athletes hold a 3.8 or higher grade point average led by 4.0 GPAs from Anderson, Cattell, Day, Gysegem, and Vescovi. Additionally, Zanella holds better than a 3.9 grade point average.



Ian Vescovi, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Men's Basketball – Senior
Major: Mathematics
Cumulative GPA: 4.0
Averaged 13.0 ppg. 7.4 rpg. 2.1 apg. 1.85 blocks/game in 2014-15 … Ranked 36th in Division II in blocks per game and 40th in total blocks (50) … 2013-14 PSAC Winter Sports Top-10 recipient?… 2013-14 and 2014-15 Second-Team All-PSAC West?… 2014-15 Second-Team Academic All-American?… 2013-14 Third-Team Academic All-American?… Three-time First-Team Academic All-District selection?… ended career ranked ranked 21st on the Mountain Cat All-Time Scoring List with 1,076 points and fifth on the Pitt- Johnstown All-Time Rebounding List with 648 rebounds.

To be a candidate for the PSAC Top 10 Awards, a student-athlete must have achieved a minimum of a 3.50 cumulative grade point average and must be a starter or key reserve with legitimate athletic credentials for their respective team. The winter sports eligible for consideration for the Winter Top 10 Awards are men's and women's swimming, men's and women's indoor track and field, wrestling, and men's and women's basketball.

At the conclusion of the academic year, all Top 10 Award winners from each season are eligible for the PSAC Pete Nevins Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards, given to one male and one female candidate.