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Maggie Harding Among NCAA Elite 89 Contenders

First it was the Elite 11 that produced Penn State news this week, now it’s the Elite 89: Women’s volleyball graduate Maggie Harding is a nominee to win the NCAA’s Elite 89 award for the second time.

Elite 89 is an annual NCAA competition decided by fan voting. The 89 contestants consist of the members from each team that participated at a finals site with the highest GPA. Coupled with the women’s volleyball team’s successful season, Harding’s 4.0 made her the obvious choice to compete for the crown from Division I women’s volleyball. The food sciences major and THON 2014 dancer last won the award in December 2012 when the Nittany Lions made it to the semifinals before bowing out to Oregon.

She’ll need some help to win it again, however. At the time of this writing, she’s 12th of the 89 competitors, trailing leader Sam Malone of Kentucky’s men’s basketball by about 1,150 votes. But there’s still a lot of time for Harding. Voting goes until July 13 at 5 p.m. for the first round, after which the field will be narrowed to 30 competitors and voting will start anew.

Let’s see if we can’t add to the academic honors our student-athletes have received this summer. Vote for Harding here.

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Tim Gilbert

Former Managing Editor of this site, now just makes lots of #content for it from the Phyrst’s Table 69. Senior from Philadelphia. First-generation Penn Stater. I might go to law school after this, but I might not, too. “For the Glory” is in my email signature because I’m a douche. [email protected] is my email if you want to tell me why I suck. Alternatively, you can call me out on Twitter @OlGilb.

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