The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced its inaugural class of L.P. Hill Unity in Sports Award honorees for the 2025-26 season. The award recognizes the contributions of an individual or group on each member campus that, through intercollegiate athletics, epitomizes the promise of Unity, Equity, and Access For All.
 
The award is named after Leslie Pinckney Hill, the first President of Cheyney State Teacher's College. From 1913 to 1950, he was the Principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and oversaw its establishment as Cheyney State Teachers College.  The Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard-educated son of a former slave taught at Tuskegee Institute and was a renowned educator, writer, poet, and community leader. 
 
In 1927, a year after the first documents that created the Pennsylvania State Normal School Athletic Association, Mr. Hill argued for the inclusion of Cheyney in the Associations bylaws which had been left out in the initial drafting.  The Board of Principals immediately rectified this error, and all 14 state-owned institutions were then included in the Association's initial governing documents.
 
Lock Haven Recipient
Kenny Hall, Athletics Diversity and Inclusion Designee
 
A servant leader on campus helping identify and assist student-athletes in need of financial, emotional, and mentoring support.
 
In July, 2020, Kenneth Hall was named the Athletics Diversity and Inclusion Designee (ADID) for the Lock Haven University Department of Athletics.

Hall, a 1994 Lock graduate and a former Bald Eagle student-athlete, was recently named the director for Lock Haven's Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Announced in June, 2020, the office serves as a resource and advocate for the university community to voice their concerns, present and work through issues, create policies and help ensure that the plans and decisions made by the university take into consideration the need to be a more inclusive campus and a vehicle for change.

An alumnus with degrees in business administration and accounting, Hall began his career at Lock Haven as an assistant director of admissions. The former Lock Haven football player served in that position for eight years before transitioning to the position of director of the office of Human and Cultural Diversity. Hall became the director of the Center for Excellence and Inclusion in August 2013. He also earned a master's degree in education from Lock Haven.
 
Find a complete list of the 2025-26 L.P. Hill Unity in Sports Award recipients at PSACsports.org.