Dylan Treaster has earned this year's USCAA Student-Athlete of the Year award for not only his athletic participation on the baseball team, but also for his tremendous academic standing and involvement around the campus community. This is the 4th time in the past 6 years that a Penn State DuBois student-athlete has earned this prestigious award that recognizes the best student-athlete across the entire country.
Past recipients of this award for DuBois are: Brandon Gettig (baseball '17), Rebecca Maine (cross country '17), Brandon Orsich (baseball '21).
Dylan will graduate May 2023 with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Applied Materials Engineering with a 3.99 GPA. Dylan has applied to Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, U Penn, and Harvard Universities to their Masters/PhD programs for Materials Science and Engineering with a focus on Additive Manufacturing.
Dylan's freshman season was eliminated by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Dylan's sophomore season was sidelined when he fractured a finger in his throwing hand the night before the team left for Spring Break trip to Myrtle Beach. Though Dylan couldn't play he was an instrumental part of the team's run at a third straight PSUAC and USCAA Championship.
Dylan played primarily 1st base in 24 games in 2021-22 baseball season with a batting average of .357, 1 Home Run, 10 RBI, and an excellent .984 fielding percentage. Dylan's importance and impact to the team isn't necessarily what he does on the field, it's what he brings every day to the culture of a winning program with high academic and moral standards.
Leadership and campus Involvement:
Lion Ambassador 2021-2023
Delta Mu Sigma Honor Society – Executive Board 2020-2023
· Cultural Travel Experience to Hawaii
Astronomy Club – Treasurer 2020-2022
Honors Scholar - 2019 – 2023
Business Society - 2019 – 2020
Research Experience:
· Analyzed carbonaceous chondrite meteorites provided by NASA in order to gain material and mineral compositions that would provide valuable information about the beginning geological processes that occurred early in our solar system.
· Optimizing Aluminum 7075 Repair Applications for Directed-Energy Deposition, a form of Addictive Manufacturing.
Certifications:
Addictive Manufacturing – Rapid Prototyping
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
Awards and Scholarships:
Edward L. & Janet I. Hopkins Scholarship 2022 - 2023
The Evan Pugh Scholar Senior Award 2022
North Central Pennsylvania (NACP) LaunchBox & Entrepreneur Student Award 2022
Scholastic Achievement Award – Baccalaureate Upperclassmen 2022
Academic Excellence Award in Mathematics 2022
Robert J. Nagy Scholarship 2021 – 2023
USCAA All-Academic Award 2021 – 2022
The President's Sparks Award 2021
The President's Freshman Award 2020
Scholastic Achievement Award – Baccalaureate Freshman 2020
PSUAC All-Academic Award 2020 – 2022
Dean's List 2019 - Present
Robert E. Umbaugh Scholarship 2019 – 2022
Baseball Coach Tom Calliari – thoughts on Dylan Treaster
"Dylan Treaster in his 4 years at Penn State DuBois has been a pillar of the highest character of what a student athlete is supposed to be in college.
He is unmatched in the classroom in his four years and has won many awards for his on-campus Leadership Skills. He has taken advantage of every opportunity and has earned a full scholarship for his graduate degree in engineering. He is active in the entrepreneurship club with tremendous creativity within this program. His leadership skills have transitioned onto the baseball field as well. He is on our Leadership council and mentors the underclassmen on the standard of our winning culture. There is no one on the team that anyone trusts more than Dylan Treaster".
Director of Athletics, Ken Nellis on Treaster, "I feel strongly that Dylan Treaster epitomizes what a Student-Athlete should stand for on any level, I am very pleased that he chose Penn State DuBois to leave his mark on our campus and within our baseball team."