•St. John Fisher women’s lacrosse junior and Hilton grad Sydney Carpenter was named Empire 8 Offensive Player of the Year for the second time in her career and First Team All-Conference and earned First-Team All-American Honors by USA Lacrosse and Third-Team Honors by IWLCA. She earned First Team All-Region honors by IWLCA for the third straight season. She led the Cardinals in goals (42), assists (26), and points (68) during the regular season, then added 15 more goals and three more assists during postseason play. She finished the regular season second in the conference in assists per game (1.63) and tied for second for points per game (4.25).
•Hilton native and Utica College senior outfielder Jason Story was named Empire 8 First Team All-Conference in baseball and to the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-Region III Second Team, becoming just the seventh player in program history so honored. Story set the new single-season program record with 11 home runs which also led the Empire 8. He slashed .355/.460/.674 with 20 total extra-base hits, 38 RBIs, and 42 runs scored while going 11-for-13 on stolen bases.
•Churchville-Chili grad and Geneseo sophomore attack Alaina Reina was named Second Team All-Region by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) and Second Team All-SUNYAC in women’s lacrosse. She tallied a team high 46 goals including 22 assists for 68 points on the season. In just her second season with the Knights, she eclipsed the 100 goal and 100-point mark in her career.
•Spencerport’s Connor Mesh was named First Team All-Conference in Empire 8 men’s lacrosse for the second consecutive season after the St. John Fisher junior short-stick defensive midfielder placed fourth on the team in caused turnovers (11).
•St. John Fisher junior Veronica Duell (Byron-Bergen) earned Empire 8 First-Team recognition in the long jump (5.68 meters) and was involved in the 4×100 meter relay team (0:52.89) that made the Third Team.
•Churchville-Chili grad Sophia Podszebka of Roberts Wesleyan was named All-East Region Second Team and earned East Coast Conference Midfielder of the Year honors after she set a single-season Roberts record of 163 draw controls, which was second in NCAA Division II. The senior also had 31 points on 20 goals and 11 assists. Teammate Emma Blumenstock was a first team selection as an attacker after scoring 104 points on 42 goals and 62 assists in the season to lead the Redhawks. Annie Mulhall, Madelyn Robinson, and Lucy Rugaber were also Second Team All-Region honorees.
•Nazareth College junior and Spencerport alum Andrew Bodensteiner was named Second Team All-Conference in Empire 8 men’s volleyball, ranking third in the conference in attack percentage and fourth in blocks.
•Hayden Penna (Hilton) of St. John Fisher earned Empire 8 First-Team All-Conference honors in men’s track & field after clearing the bar at 4.60 meters. Teammate Sophia Leach (Hilton) earned Second-Team Empire 8 recognition in the 400-meter dash (1:00.08) and 400-meter hurdles (1:07.88).
•SUNY Brockport junior defense Tim Hubbard (Hilton) was named Second Team All-SUNYAC in men’s lacrosse. He finished tied for 10th in SUNYAC in ground balls and recorded a team-high 18 turnovers. Teammate Nick Askin was named the 2024 SUNYAC Men’s Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Year, with brother Nate Askin joining Hubbard on the Second Team. Nick Askin rewrote the Brockport record book in his lone season as a Golden Eagle setting new single-season records in both goals (63) and points (70), in addition to breaking the Brockport single-game goals record with a 10-goal effort against Westminster on March 9. Nate Askin finished the season with 15 goals for 28 points and ten ground balls, finishing with a team second-best 13 assists.
•Geneseo junior outfielder Tori Guary (Spencerport) was named Second Team All-SUNYAC in softball after hitting over .300 on the season, good enough for top six on the team and top 40 in the league.
•Brockport HS and SUNY Brockport senior Eliza Gonzalez was named First Team All-SUNYAC in women’s tennis singles and Second Team in doubles with partner Olivia Raschiatore. Gonzalez was named to the SUNYAC All-Conference Team for the third time after posting a 7-5 record as Brockport’s #1 singles player with a 15-8 record across both doubles and singles play. Serving as Brockport’s first doubles team, Raschiatore and Gonzalez finished with an 8-4 record as a duo.
•SUNY Brockport track & field produced several All-Americans highlighted by Rebecca Heuler, who was the National Champion in Javelin and First Team All-American. Her 47.35m throw set a new outdoor program record and is the 16th longest in Division III history.
Brockport HS grad Jacob Miller (Men’s 400m), Jonathan Zavala (Men’s 1500m), Mia Montgomery (Women’s Long Jump), Matthew Jackson (Hammer Throw), and the 4×400 Relay Team of Craig Duffy, Ayden Grinion, Michael Durski, and Miller were named Second Team All-American.
•Brockport senior gymnasts Maren Eramo and Emma Grace Sargent were named All-Americans by the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association. Eramo, a first team selection, was the co-champion on the Vault with a score of 9.825 at nationals while Sargent earned second team status on the Uneven Bars with a school-record season-high of 9.850.
•Roberts Wesleyan head men’s volleyball coach Mike Dedee was named the East Coast Conference Co-Coach of the Year and Moises Jimenez was named the ECC Libero of the Year with five players earning All-Conference honors for the first-year program, which was the No. 2 seed in the ECC Championships and won a National Christian College Athletic Association Invitational Title. Jimenez led the conference in digs this season with 219 in total – fifth in the country. Paul Fillion, Jonah Grbic, Noah Liousfi, and Griffin Monrad were all named All-Conference with all having over 100 kills on the season.
•Roberts Wesleyan fifth-year pole vaulter Brynn King was named the ECC’s 2024 Outdoor Track and Field Female Athlete of the Year and Mark McCown, who guided the Redhawks men’s program to their second consecutive ECC Championship, was named the ECC’s Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. King set a personal, meet and NCAA Division II record by clearing 4.68 meters (15-4 1/4). She also broke a 13-year-old meet record (4.51 meters, 14-9 1/2) by winning the Kansas Relays on April 19. McCown has led the men to three ECC titles in the past four seasons.
•Four members of the Roberts Wesleyan University men’s lacrosse team have earned postseason honors from the East Coast Conference. Junior attack Gunner MacMillan and sophomore defender Brady Kustra have been named to the ECC First Team and senior attack Jordon Deats and senior long stick midfielder Luke Delavak have been selected to the Second Team. MacMillan established a Roberts single-season record with 62 goals this spring and tied for the ECC lead with 78 points. Kustra caused a team-high 30 turnovers, which ranked fourth in the conference. Deats scored a career-high 36 goals and led the team with 35 assists. Delavak ranked second on the team in ground balls with 68.
•SUNY Brockport baseball had five Second-Team All-Conference picks in Justin DelVecchio, Jason Mansell, Zach Eldred, Cole Traudt, and David Belsito. DelVecchio led the Brockport pitching staff with 50 strikeouts to go with a 3.50 ERA (third in SUNYAC). His 126 career strikeouts rank eighth in program history. Mansell registered a team-best 200 putouts at catcher with 23 assists and just two errors for a .991 fielding percentage. Eldred completed his senior season with 133 career hits, 16 home runs (fifth all-time) and 101 RBIs (eighth all-time) for his career. Traudt was second in hits (34), first in doubles (9), first in triples (2), second in homers (2), third in RBIs (22), and hit .386 at the plate. Belsito totaled 129 putouts, 13 assists, and just two errors for a .986 fielding percentage.
•The Golden Eagles had seven players earn All-SUNYAC honors in women’s lacrosse while Tristan Davis was named the SUNYAC Rookie of the Year. Cassidy Burnash and Alayna Foos were First Team selections while Davis, Sarah Kilburn, Kaeli McCarthy, Journey Naab, and Adrianna Reed were Third Team. Burnash is now a three-time All-SUNYAC selection after she set career-highs of 83 points (second in SUNYAC) and 41 assists (third in SUNYAC) to go with 42 goals to finish her career at Brockport with 250 points (fourth All-Time), 160 goals (fourth All-Time), and 90 assists. Foos is also a three-time All-SUNYAC player after she set career-best numbers across the board offensively with 52 goals (sixth in the SUNYAC) and had 14 assists to give her a career-best total of 66 points. Davis made an immediate impact on the field for the Green and Gold and finished the year third on the team with 40 total points and was second on the team with 45 draw controls. Kilburn snagged a team-best 70 draw controls (8th in the SUNYAC) and finished fourth on the team in total points (30).
