SUNY Cortland junior Katie Mahoney (Toronto, ON/Toronto Leaside Junior), junior Joleen Lusk (Cherry Valley/Cherry Valley-Springfield), senior Isaiah Brunache (Bennington, VT/Mount Anthony Union), senior Kendall Arcuri (Staten Island/St. Joseph by-the-Sea) and senior Reilly Quinn (Morrisonville/Beekmantown) have been honored as State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Winter Scholar Athletes of the Year, while Mahoney, Lusk, Brunache, Arcuri, senior Angelo Centrone (Mahopac) and junior Kathryn McSweeney (East Brunswick, NJ/NJ Premier Gymnastics) have been honored as State University of New York (SUNY) Winter Scholar Athletes of the Year, in their respective sports, for the 2025-26 season.
 
Mahoney is an exercise science major with a 3.93 overall grade point average entering the spring semester. Cortland's first-ever women's ice hockey All-American, Mahoney finished the season with 11 goals and 20 assists in 28 games and was named the SUNYAC Player of the Year.
 
Lusk is an exercise science major who entered the spring semester with a 3.98 overall GPA. The women's basketball forward earned first team All-SUNYAC and third team D3hoops.com all-region honors after leading Cortland with 11.5 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.7 blocked shots per game in 27 games.
 
Brunache is an exercise science major with a 3.92 overall GPA prior to the spring semester. He earned both SUNYAC and SUNY indoor track and field honors for the second straight year, and he also was the SUNY honoree as a sophomore two years ago. He earned first team All-America honors in both the weight throw, with a fifth-place finish, and the shot put, with a seventh-place showing, at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships. Brunache was also chosen as the SUNYAC Men's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year.
 
Arcuri repeats as both the SUNYAC and SUNY winner for men's basketball. A physical education major with a 3.48 overall GPA entering the spring, he earned NABC second team all-district and D3hoops.com third team all-region honors, and was a first team All-SUNYAC selection, after averaging 13.2 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in 25 games. He finished his Cortland career with 1,249 points.
 
Quinn is a sport management major with a 3.95 overall GPA prior to the spring semester. The women's indoor track and field honoree was named the SUNYAC Women's Field Athlete of the Year after winning conference titles in both the long jump and the high jump and earning All-Niagara Region honors in both events.
 
Centrone is a repeat winner of the SUNY award for men's wrestling. A physical education major with a 3.35 overall GPA prior to the spring, Centrone earned All-America honors with a seventh-place finish a 149 pounds at the NCAA Division III Championships. He also claimed the NCAA Region 2 and SUNYAC titles. Centrone finished the season with a 20-3 record and his Cortland career with a 98-12 record.
 
McSweeney, a member of the Cortland women's gymnastics team, is the SUNY "women's at-large" honoree. Pursuing an individualized degree program, McSweeney has a 3.94 overall GPA prior to the spring. She earned All-National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) East Region honors on uneven bars with second-place regional finish and tied for 18th place of 48 on uneven bars at NCGA National Championship.
 
The SUNYAC Scholar Athlete Award winners are selected from each of the SUNYAC's sponsored sports. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must have a minimum overall grade point average of 3.30, be a starter or significant reserve on his or her team and have an academic class standing of sophomore or higher.

The SUNY Scholar Athlete Awards recognized student athletes from SUNY colleges and universities sponsoring intercollegiate athletics at the four-year and two-year levels who were nominated and voted upon by representatives of their respective institutions. Nominating information includes cumulative grade point average, current and career statistics, and athletic and academic honors.
 
More than 14,000 student-athletes compete at SUNY institutions representing 53 different colleges and universities at the NCAA Division I, NCAA Division III/USCAA and NJCAA levels and are eligible for the awards. The 19 Division III institutions in the SUNY system are: Alfred State, Brockport, Buffalo State, Canton, Cobleskill, Cortland, Delhi, Farmingdale, Fredonia, Geneseo, Maritime, Morrisville, New Paltz, Old Westbury, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Potsdam and SUNY Poly. SUNY-ESF, a member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), participates in the program with the 19 NCAA Division III members for a total of 20 colleges and universities.
 
The SUNY Scholar Athlete Awards, which originated in the fall of 2022, recognized outstanding academic and athletic success in 29 different sports and are presented three times a year to coincide with the specific sports contested in the fall, winter and spring seasons. The Scholar Athletes of the Year in each sport will then be nominated for an overall Scholar Athlete of the Year for men's sports and women's sports in each category that will be announced in mid-July. Because sport sponsorship varies among institutions, a minimum sponsorship formula has been developed for award selections. At least three (3) institutions must sponsor the sport in the Division I category, while at least five (5) institutions must sponsor the sport in the SUNY Division III/USCAA and SUNY NJCAA categories. For sports that do not meet the minimum threshold to be a viable award, an At-Large Category has been developed for each level and each season.