NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -€“ The Presidents' Athletic
Conference (PAC) announced today that Kristen Moreland (Dover, Ohio/Dover
H.S.) of Thiel College and Brad Kubis (Aliquippa, Pa./Hopewell
H.S.) of
Bethany College have been named Student-Athlete Advisory Committee
(SAAC) Scholar-Athletes of the Month for May 2012.
Moreland is a senior student-athlete at Thiel College and a member
of the Tomcat softball team. With 251 career strikeouts she is
ranked first on the Thiel softball all-time list, while her 21
career wins rank her
third and her 34 career complete games tie her for third. Moreland
led the Tomcat softball program in victories in three of her four
seasons.
Off the field, Moreland is triple majoring in Accounting, Business
Administration and Fine Art, while minoring in English. She holds
an impressive 3.98 grade point average (GPA). Moreland has been
recognized
after each of the last three seasons as a member of the PAC
Academic Honor Roll and was named a National Fastpitch Coaches
Association (NFCA) All-America Scholar Athlete following the 2011
season. On
campus, she is a member of the English Honorary, Sigma Tau Delta,
the Business Honorary, Chi Eta Sigma, and the Senior Honorary, Les
Lauriers. Moreland serves as the treasurer of the Alpha Chi
National honorary and is a member of the National College Athlete
Honorary, Chi Alpha Sigma. She is the art editor for the
College’s literary magazine, The Phoenix, and was named the Thiel
College'€™s Student of the Month for March 2012.
Kubis is a junior student-athlete at Bethany College and a member
of the Bison Baseball team. He was a First Team All-PAC selection
in 2009 and 2010, as well as a Second Team All-PAC selection in
2012. Kubis
batted .372 this spring with one home run, 27 RBI, 25 runs scored
and a team-best .482 on-base percentage. He has a .392 career
batting average to rank fourth all-time at Bethany, while his 155
hits rank him ninth and his 96 career RBI put him fifth. Kubis set
the Bethany College single-season saves record with 12 in 2010,
broke the BC career mark last year and has 24 to his credit with a
year to go. In 2010, he was named Third Team All-American by D3Baseball.com.
Off the field, Kubis is majoring in Biology and holds a 3.63 GPA.
He has been named on the Dean’s List three times
and on the Capital One Second Team Academic All-District II in
2011. On campus, Kubis is a
member of Beta Beta Beta Biology Honor Society. He also coaches a
14-16 year old team in the summer. Each month, SAAC members at a
PAC school nominate a student-athlete to highlight based on
academic
and athletic accomplishments. Honorees must be a varsity member in
their respective sport(s) and in their junior or senior year.
Scholar-Athletes of the Month must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or
higher and be
actively involved on his or her campus community.
Founded in 1955, the Presidents'€™ Athletic Conference
continues its mission of promoting intercollegiate athletics and
the pursuit of academic excellence. Consisting of 10 select private
institutions in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, and Kentucky, the PAC remains a unique organization
in this day of high pressure intercollegiate athletics. With
academics at the center of each member'€™s philosophy,
the PAC is built on the principle
that an athletic program is a part of college life, but not an
entity in itself. The PAC annually crowns champions in 19 sports
(10 men, nine women) as a member of NCAA Division III.
Moreland, Kubis named PAC SAAC Scholar-Athletes of the Month for May, 2012
Posted: May 17, 2012