April 13, 2011

PHILADELPHIA - La Salle senior men's basketball player Steve Weingarten has been named the Philadelphia Big 5 Scholar-Athlete of the Year, it was announced today by the Herb Good Club. He will receive the award at the Big 5 Awards Banquet on April 25, 2011 at the Liacouras Center Fox-Gittis Room at Temple University at 6:30 PM. Tickets for the banquet can be reserved by contacting Al Shrier at Temple (215-651-1821/ashrier5@temple.edu).

Weingarten was named the Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Student-Athlete of the Year this season and carries a 3.86 GPA as a dual major in history and American studies. He has been a two-time CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-District First Team selection and also received Academic All-Atlantic 10 honors this winter.

He was awarded a postgraduate scholarship from the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association and was honored on the I-AAA National Scholar-Athlete team for the second straight season. Last week, he was honored with La Salle's Academic Excellence Award, presented to the graduating student-athlete with the highest GPA.

Temple's Fran Dunphy won the Harry Litwack Award for the city's top coach and Lavoy Allen was named the Big 5 Most Outstanding Player. Langston Galloway of Saint Joseph's will be presented the Dave Zinkoff Award as the Big Five Rookie of the Year.

Temple's Scootie Randall has won the George Paull Award as the Big Five's Most Improved Player. Villanova's Corey Stokes is the Big Five's Most Accurate Foul Shooter (89.4 average) and earns the Cy Kaselman Award. Villanova's Antonio Pena will receive the Harry Merrill Sportsmanship Award. Carl Jones of Saint Joseph's gets the Palumbo Award as the Big Five's top scorer (17.0 average, 545 points).

Joining Allen on the All-Big Five first team are his teammate Ramone Moore, Villanova's Corey Fisher and Corey Stokes and Penn's Zack Rosen. The second team includes Penn's Jack Eggleston, Temple's Juan Fernandez, Carl Jones of Saint Joseph's, La Salle's Aaric Murray and Villanova's Maalik Wayns.