Two Warriors named Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars

2017 May 5

Two Lycoming College student-athletes repeated their recognition as Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars by the periodical Diverse Issues in Higher Education in its April 6 issue. Senior cross country runner Donald Keys (Erie, Pa./Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy) repeated as a second-team selection and senior football player Adin Hines (Harrisburg, Pa./Susquehanna Township) was named to the fourth team.

Diverse Issues established the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Program, named for the late tennis star, in 1992 to honor outstanding undergraduate students of color. Each sports scholar must be a non-freshman who competes in an intercollegiate sport, maintains a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.20, and is active on his campus or in the community.

Keys earned four letters with the cross country team, turning in his finest campaign as a senior, when he posted a career-best time of 32:29 at the NCAA Mideast Regional. The economics major was a three-time member of the MAC Academic Honor Roll and he is also heavily involved on campus, where he has served in positions with the Campus Crusade for Christ, the Campus Activities Board, the Lycourier and the Summer Orientation Staff.

Hines has earned three letters with the football team, developing into one of the team's best defensive lineman. As a senior, he stepped into the starting lineup, finishing the year with 33 tackles and a team-best eight tackles for loss. Hines is a two-time member of the MAC Academic Honor Roll as an accounting major. He plans on returning to Lycoming's football team while finishing his degree requirements in 2017.

The duo are Lycoming's first repeat winners in the Ashe Sports Scholars Program, as they were two of four award winners that earned mentioned in 2016.