Gingrich Named Outdoor T&F Senior Scholar Athlete
Gingrich Named Outdoor T&F Senior Scholar Athlete
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.
Peter Gingrich of Moravian College was chosen as the Landmark Conference Men's Outdoor Track & Field Senior Scholar Athlete.
This past spring, Gingrich earned Landmark All-Conference Second Team honors in 800-meter relay with runner-up time of 1:56.89, and he also finished third in 4x400-meter relay in 3:36.70. In 2019, he was fourth in 4x400-meter relay in 3:27.41, fifth in 800-meter run in 1:56.46 and sixth in 1,500-meter run in 4:06.71 at Landmark Conference Championships with his 800-meter and 1,500-meter times being career bests. As a freshman in 2018, Gingrich finished ninth in the 800-meter run in 1:59.29 and 14th in the 1,500-meter run in 4:14.89 at the Landmark Conference Championships. He helped the 2018 and 2019 squads win Landmark Conference titles.
Gingrich was a two-time Landmark All-Conference Second Team honoree at the Indoor Championships with a runner-up in the distance medley relay in 2018 and the 4x400-meter relay in 2019 while helping the Greyhounds to Landmark Conference Championships in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He also competed on Moravian’s Cross Country Team and had a career-best 8K time of 27:18.7 at Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle in 2019.
Off the track and cross country course, Gingrich has made Moravian’s Dean's Honors List eight times as well as being a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. He will be an eight-time member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll - three times in the fall, twice in the winter and three times in the spring. Gingrich is also a member of the Math Honors Society and the Modern Language Honor Society at Moravian.
Gingrich is Moravian’s 36th Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete since the conference began in 2007-08, and he is the fifth men’s outdoor track & field student-athlete to be honored and tenth overall selection from the Moravian men’s track & field program.
Complete List of Senior Scholar Athletes