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LORETTO — Altoona Area High School graduate Trent Meyers, a member of the Saint Francis men’s golf team, was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District At-Large team.

Meyers, a rising junior, boasts a 3.87 grade-point average with a finance major. Meyers averaged 80.8 strokes per round in 27 rounds in his sophomore campaign and won the New York/Pennsylvania D1 Quad Match with a 2-under-par score of 70 on April 14. He finished 33rd at the Northeast Conference Championships and led the team in the second round with a two-over par score of 73.

Meyers joins Andrew Deardorff, Cole Dorn, Sam Lane, Michael Mosbacher, and Brady Stump from the Red Flash men’s volleyball team on the CSC Academic Male All-District At-Large team. On the women’s side, Consu de Castro and Dolores Zavaleta from field hockey, Victoria DiRenno and Chyler Espino from women’s lacrosse and Georgia Elluson and Caylah Olay from water polo were also selected.

Batrus, Fisher honored

Postseason academic recognition continued to roll in Tuesday, when four Penn State Altoona student-athletes, including Altoona Area High School graduates Daniel Batrus and Landen Fisher, earned places in the College Sports Communicators’ At-Large category of its NCAA Division III All-District honors.

Batrus is a sophomore on the men’s golf team and is majoring in business, and Fisher is a sophomore men’s volleyball player majoring in mechanical engineering.

Other PSU Altoona athletes honored were Nicky Riscica of the men’s golf team, and Isabelle Forcey of the women’s golf team.

Warren, Gordon recognized

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Nittany Lion student-athletes Tyler Warren (football) and Maddie Gordon (softball) garnered the loftiest academic and athletic accolades bestowed upon Big Ten Conference student-athletes, securing Penn State’s Big Ten Medals of Honor for the 2024-25 academic year.

The Big Ten Medal of Honor is awarded to one male and one female student-athlete from the graduating class of each member institution who has demonstrated excellence on and off the field throughout their college career.

The highest honor that a student competing in conference athletics can achieve in the Big Ten, the award was established in 1915 and was the first award in intercollegiate athletics to demonstrate support for the educational emphasis placed on athletics. During the past century, the Big Ten Medal of Honor has been awarded to more than 1,500 honorees. These individuals have translated their campus experience into success in all walks of life.

One of the most prolific tight ends in Penn State history, Warren demonstrated exceptional commitment to his academics throughout his time at Penn State. He graduated in Fall 2023 with a degree in advertising/public relations in just three years, earning a cumulative GPA of 3.36, and earn a second degree in Telecommunications in Fall 2024. He was a semifinalist for the prestigious Campbell Trophy, the “Academic Heisman” of College Football.

Warren was selected 14th overall by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2025 NFL Draft.

On and off the field, Gordon has made an extraordinary impact on the Penn State community, as well as the Nittany Lion softball team. While completing a double major with a 3.93 GPA, Gordon has also established herself as one of the most dominant student-athletes in the Nittany Lion softball program’s history. She has a pair of All-Big Ten Second Team and NFCA All-Region Second Team accolades adorning her resume, helping lead PSU to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in over a decade during the 2024 campaign while anchoring the highest-scoring offense in program annals in the 2025 campaign.