NORFOLK, Va. – Ishaq Pitt of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore was named the 2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Male Student-Athlete of the Year, the conference announced today. Pitt will be awarded the honor during a special on-campus event to be announced at a later time.

“I am thrilled to congratulate Ishaq Pitt as the 2015 MEAC Male Student-Athlete of the Year,” said MEAC Commissioner Dennis Thomas. “Mr. Pitt has displayed academic and athletic excellence, hard work, dedication and service in the community throughout his four years at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. I would further like to acknowledge Mr. Pitt’s parents, the UMES administrators, athletic and academic support staffs and coaches who have guided him throughout his collegiate career.”

Pitt was a four-year letterman and a two-year starter as a guard for the Hawks’ basketball team. A two-time captain and a 2012 All-MEAC Rookie Team honoree, Pitt played in a school-record 117 games (52 starts), logging 2,686 minutes, and averaged 5.7 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Pitt earned the 2013 and 2014 Maryland Eastern Shore Male Scholar Athlete of the Year honor. He is a three-time member of the MEAC Commissioner’s All-Academic Team, including in 2015. He was selected as the Arthur Ashe Jr., Sports Scholar of the Year in 2014 and named to the 2015 Capital One Academic All-District Team.

Pitt graduated in December 2014 with a bachelor of science degree in Accounting, accumulating a 3.98 GPA.

In the community, Pitt volunteered with Relay for Life (2011-2014), Angel Tree Christmas Service for Children (2011 and 2012) and Street Sweep (2012-2014). He was inducted as a member of Beta Gamma Sigma (2013) and served as President of the National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. in 2013 and 2014 and Chief of Staff for the Student Government Association (2013-2015). In addition, he was a member of the Student-Athletic Advisory Council (SAAC) from 2012-2014.

Pitt becomes the fourth student-athlete to be honored as the conference’s Male Student-Athlete of the Year. Last year Bethune-Cookman’s Nesly Marcellon received the honor.

The Male Student-Athlete of the Year honor is provided to the student-athlete who has excelled academically and athletically and is in his final season of intercollegiate athletics eligibility and competition under MEAC and NCAA regulations for the sport in which the student-athlete was nominated.

Each of the MEAC’s 13-member institutions may nominate one male student-athlete for the honor. The honoree is selected by a committee of five conference Director of Athletics that use a combination of the following criteria in selection of the award: service and leadership, academic achievement, and athletics excellence.