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PG South: South Park grad earns a huge honor from NCAA
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

South Park and Clarion University graduate Jamie Wolf has been named the top female Division II Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the Division II Conference Commissioners Association.

The Division II Scholar-Athletes of the Year awards are sponsored by Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex.

The selection of Wolf caps a process guided by the Division II Commissioners Association. Last month, 16 regional scholar-athlete award winners were named. Wolf was selected from a field of eight women's regional winners.

Mike Klobucher, of Ferris State University, a member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, earned the distinction on the men's side.

Wolf is the first Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference athlete to earn this national award.

Wolf graduated with an undergraduate cumulative grade-point average of 4.0 at Clarion University, earning a degree in molecular biology.

A native of South Park, Wolf has accepted an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and is currently attending Ohio State University to major in molecular genetics.

A member of the women's diving team, she ended her four-year career as a three-time NCAA Division II Female Diver of the Year (2007, 2005, 2004) and won an NCAA record seven national championships in eight tries.

This past season, Wolf won both the 1- and 3-meter national championships while setting the NCAA 1-meter diving record with 453.75 points.

She was named ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA 2007 At-Large Academic All-America of the Year and is currently one of the top nine finalists for the association-wide NCAA Woman of the Year Award which will be announced Oct. 27 in Indianapolis, Ind.While at Clarion, Wolf was named its Female Athlete of the Year on three occasions (2007, 2005, 2004) and was inducted into both the Phi Kappa Phi National Honors Fraternity and was a member of the Beta Beta Beta Biology Honors Fraternity. She owns school records in the 10-dive 1-meter, 11-dive 3-meter and six-dive 3-meter events. Her service and leadership activities included participation in Clarion's Dance Marathon and Operation Clean Sweep, as well as teaching swimming lessons and serving as president of the Health Careers Club and manager of an undergraduate research laboratory.

Dukes' Totino honored

Seton-LaSalle graduate Nathan Totino has been named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Football League Rookie of the Week two of the last three weeks.

Totino, a 5-foot-10, 200-pound freshman linebacker at Duquesne University, recorded 10 tackles, including seven solo stops, in the Dukes 31-21 win at Marist.

In four games, Totino is third on the team with 24 solo tackles and 38 total tackles.

He gets PSAC award

Woodland Hills graduate Terrence Johnson was named Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division Defensive Player of the Week after intercepting a pair of passes for California University of Pennsylvania in Saturday's impressive 38-12 win over Indiana, Pa.

Johnson, a 6-foot, 190-pound sophomore who shared the PSAC interceptions lead in 2006, had his first two picks of the 2007 campaign in the first two minutes of the fourth quarter during a rally that changed the complexion of the game.

First published on October 11, 2007 at 12:00 am
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