Gallagher Earns Field Hockey Senior Scholar Athlete Honors
Gallagher Earns Field Hockey Senior Scholar Athlete Honors
TOWSON Md. – The Landmark Conference selects 22 senior scholar athletes each year to recognize the top student-athlete in each sport based on academics and athletics.
The honorees must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.20 and are selected by a committee of Landmark Conference officers, athletics directors, senior woman administrators, faculty athletic representatives, and sports information directors.
The University of Scranton's Megan Gallagher earned Landmark Conference Field Hockey Senior Scholar Athlete honors. Gallagher is the second player in program history to earn Landmark Senior Scholar Athlete honors following Gretchen Kempf in 2012-13. She is also the second student-athlete from The University to be honored this year after Lauren Byrne received the honor in Women's Swimming & Diving and the 43rd Royals student-athlete to be honored since Scranton joined the Landmark for the 2007-08 season.
The Thorndale, Pa., native started all 34 games she appeared in over two seasons for the Royals and tallied nine goals and 15 assists for a total of 33 points. Gallagher shares the single-game record for assists with three in a victory over King's on Sept. 13, 2018 and is also tied for the second most assists in a single season in program history with eight.
Gallagher is a two-time All-Landmark Conference honoree after receiving Second Team honors as a freshman in 2017 and First Team honors as a sophomore in 2018. She also received National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) All-South Atlantic Region Second Team honors following the 2018 season.
During Gallagher's career, the Royals captured the program's first Landmark title in 2019 when she served as a student manager while injured and were runners-up in 2018. She was also a member of the 2017 team that won 15 games, which is the second most in a single season in program history.
In the classroom, Gallagher boasts a 3.71 GPA and will earn a degree from Scranton in Exercise Science this spring. She is a two-time member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll and the NFHCA National Academic Squad.
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