Ten Cortland student-athletes have been named to the 2024-25 Division III Men's and Women's Track and Field/Cross Country Academic All-District teams for District 3.
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The all-district teams are selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC). In Division III, District 3 encompasses all schools in New York State. Recipients must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically with a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade point average and meet certain requirements in terms of athletic accomplishments.
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Cortland's all-district honorees are:
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MEN:
Isaiah Brunache (Bennington, VT/Mount Anthony Union), Jr.
Evan Collette (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa), So.
Harrison Gavalas (Southampton), Jr.
Josh Jeffes (Scotia/Scotia-Glenville), Grad.
Adam Schreiber (Williamson), Grad.
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WOMEN:
Anne Barney (Oakland, NJ/Indian Hills), So.
Jennifer Ndukwu (Queens/Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School), Jr.
Reilly Quinn (Morrisonville/Beekmantown), Jr.
Deirdre Sullivan (Tappan/Tappan Zee), Sr.
Alexa Wolcott (Wyoming/Pavilion), Jr.
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Brunache, Gavalas and Wolcott are repeat selections from the 2023-24 school year.
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Brunache is an exercise science major with a 3.97 cumulative GPA. He was the national runner-up in the shot put at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships last month and was named both the Niagara Region and SUNYAC Men's Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year. During the indoor season he earned All-America honors with seventh-place finish in the weight throw and eighth-place finish in the shot put.
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Collette is an exercise science with an overall GPA of 3.90. Collette qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the hammer throw and also won the event at the SUNYAC Championships. He ranked third regionally in the hammer, and indoors he ranked fourth regionally and 33rd nationally in the weight throw and 10th regionally in the shot put.
Gavalas is a business economics major with a 3.61 cumulative GPA. During the indoor season, Gavalas was part of Cortland's national championship 4x400-meter relay team, and he ranked 11th regionally in the 400-meter dash. At the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, he was a member of Cortland's 4x100-meter relay team that earned second team All-America honors with a 10th-place finish and was also part of the Red Dragons' national qualifying 4x400-meter relay.
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Jeffes is a sport management major with a 3.61 GPA. He also had a 3.85 GPA as an undergraduate student at SUNY Delhi before coming to Cortland this past season. At the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships, Jeffes anchored the Red Dragons' national championship 4x400-meter relay team and earned All-America honors with a sixth-place finish in the 400-meter dash. Outdoors, Jeffes was an All-American with a seventh-place showing nationally in the 400 meters and was part of Cortland's national-qualifying 4x400-meter relay. Jeffes was named both the SUNYAC Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year, winning 200-meter and 400-meter dash titles at both conference championships.
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Schreiber is currently a graduate student in sport management with a 3.87 GPA. As an undergraduate student at Cortland, he earned a 3.91 GPA in sport studies and graduated in December 2023. Last fall he finished fourth at the SUNYAC Men's Cross Country Championships to earn first team All-SUNYAC honors. He was recognized as both the SUNYAC and SUNY Scholar Athlete of the Year in the sport. Schreiber also ranked in the top 50 regionally in both the 5,000-meter run indoors and 10,000-meter run outdoors.
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Barney is a speech and hearing science major with a 3.59 overall GPA. She earned third team All-SUNYAC honors at the conference women's cross country championship meet last fall with a 13th-place finish and she finished 74th at the Niagara Region championship. She finished fourth in the 3,000 meters during the SUNYAC indoor championship meet and fifth in the 5,000 meters at the league's outdoor championship.
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Ndukwu majors in inclusive childhood education and has a 3.64 overall GPA. During the indoor season she won the SUNYAC title in the weight throw and placed third in the shot put, and during the outdoor season she was SUNYAC runner-up in the hammer throw and third in the shot put, and she finished fifth in the hammer at the AARTFC Championship. She ranked fifth regionally in the weight throw and 18th in the shot put during the indoor season and sixth in the hammer and 12th in the shot put outdoors.
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Quinn is a sport management major with a 3.94 cumulative GPA. She won the SUNYAC outdoor title and ranked ninth regionally in the high jump, and during the indoor season she tied for third place in the SUNYAC and ranked seventh regionally in the high jump.
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Sullivan is a criminology major with a 3.60 overall GPA. Sullivan finished fourth at last fall's SUNYAC Women's Cross Country Championship to earn first team all-league recognition and she was 43rd at the Niagara Region meet. She won SUNYAC titles both indoors and outdoors in the 5,000 meters and ranked 18th regionally in the indoor 5,000 meters and 19th regionally in the outdoor 3,000-meter steeplechase.
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Wolcott is a fitness development major with a 3.76 cumulative GPA. She earned third team All-SUNYAC honors in cross country with a 12th-place conference finish and she placed 85th at the Niagara Regional. She was All-SUNYAC outdoors with a third-place finish in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, ranking 12th regionally in the event, and indoors she placed fourth in the conference in the 5,000 meters and ranked 24th regionally.