EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. – Gannon University's Anthony Di Gioia (Welland, Ont.) has been named the PSAC Men's Soccer Champion Scholar for the 2026 season, becoming the second Golden Knight student-athlete to receive the honor during the 2026-27 academic year.

Di Gioia, a junior goalkeeper double majoring in Finance and Economics, carries an impressive 3.99 cumulative grade point average with 82 completed credit hours. He becomes the fourth Golden Knight men's soccer student-athlete to receive the conference's Champion Scholar Award.

Di Gioia becomes the second Gannon student-athlete to earn a PSAC Champion Scholar Award during the 2026-27 academic year, joining men's golfer Jacob Wolak, who received the honor earlier this fall.

The PSAC Champion Scholar Awards are modeled after the NCAA's Elite Scholar-Athlete Award (formerly Elite 90 Award) and honor the student-athlete with the highest-grade point average competing at the site of each PSAC championship final.

The selection criteria for the Champion Scholar Awards are identical to those of the NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete Awards, which recognize the student-athlete with the highest GPA at the championship finals sites of the NCAA's 93 championships across all three divisions – I, II and III.

Di Gioia joins Joshua Ott (2017-18), James Randall (2019-20) and Troy Croscut-Miller (North East, Pa./North East) (2025-26) as Gannon men's soccer student-athletes to receive the honor.