2025 SUNYAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships

Friday, May 2 @ 2 p.m. • Saturday, May 3 @ 10 a.m.

Cortland, N.Y. • Cortland's Stadium Complex

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CORTLAND, N.Y. – The Plattsburgh State men's track and field team is set to compete at the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Friday, May 2, and Saturday, May 3, at Cortland's Stadium Complex.

SUNYAC CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY: Led by fourth-year head coach Andrew Krug '10, the Cardinals are looking to continue to move up the conference standings, as Plattsburgh State finished fifth out of nine teams at last year's meet. Geneseo, which had won six straight outdoor track and field championships, departed the conference, meaning a new champion will be crowned for the first time since 2017. Cortland won in 2016 and 2017 and finished second last year, as they look to be the favorites heading into the weekend. Teams competing this year include several new schools, such as Alfred State, Morrisville, Penn State Behrend, SUNY Cobleskill, and SUNY Delhi, which will be a part of the 2025 outdoor championships.
 
ABOUT THE CARDINALS: All season long, junior Charles Cypress (New Windsor, N.Y./Cornwall) has led the way for the Cardinals as the sprinter will look to add to his fantastic outdoor season. Cypress currently sits as the second seed in the 100-meter dash (10.71) and the 200-meter dash (21.51). The Plattsburgh program record holder in the 200-meter dash will look to add to his outdoor medal sheet after earning a second-place finish last year in the 200-meter dash and third place in the 100-meter race.

Junior Samuel Van Auken (Greenville, N.Y./Greenville) joins Cypress as the only two Cardinal athletes with multiple top-five seed times heading into the weekend. Van Auken has the fifth-best time in the 5,000-meter run (15:49.79) and the fourth-best mark in the 10,000-meter run (32:40.62). First-year Thomas Clark (Stone Ridge, N.Y./Rondout Valley) enters the championships on the doorstep of his first medal with his fourth-seed time of 15.21 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles.

Other Cardinals Competing in races at the meet include junior Jordan Williams (Bronx, N.Y./Cardinal Hayes) in the 100-meter dash (11.00) and the 200-meter dash (22.44), sophomore Ryan Beltran (Bronx, N.Y./Cardinal Hayes) in the 400-meter dash (50.12), senior Justin Kumrow (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) in the 800-meter run (1:59.52), sophomore Zander Brown (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham) in the 1,500-meter run (4:24.00), junior Jack Natali Jr. (Clayton, N.Y./Thousand Islands) in the 10,000-meter run (34:57.63), first-year Joshua Gaboriault (Saranac, N.Y./Saranac) in the 400-meter hurdles (1:00.41), and sophomore Nate Alexander (Marcellus, N.Y./Marcellus) in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (10:53.50).

First-year Jackson Hooper (Elizabethtown, N.Y./Boquet Valley) enters the championship meet with the second-best height cleared this season in the SUNYAC, as he cleared 1.95 meters in the high jump earlier this season. The first-year is just .03 meters off the top height cleared this season and will be a legitimate contender for a SUNYAC title. Not far behind him in the same event is first-year Drew Duncan (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown Heights), who is tied for the sixth seed with his season-best mark of 1.85 meters. Sophomore Tyler Baker (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh) is also competing in the event, with his season-best mark being 1.75 meters.

Sophomore Isaiah Ritter (Peekskill, N.Y./Peekskill) is the top-seeded Cardinal in the long jump, as his 6.71-meter jump is seeded eighth. Baker's 6.67-meter jump is seeded 10^th in the event, while junior Julius James (Bronx, N.Y./Cardinal Hayes) will compete in the event as well for Plattsburgh, as he carries a season-best jump of 6.38 meters.

Senior Isaiah Martens-Collins (London, Ontario/Penticton) is looking for their first career medal, as they currently hold the third-seeded javelin throw of 52.94 meters. First-year Zach Stevens (Queensbury, N.Y./Glens Falls) will compete in the hammer throw for Plattsburgh, as he carries a seed mark of 38.28 meters.

Junior Faris Webber (Arlington, Va./Washington Liberty) will compete in the decathlon for Plattsburgh State, as he carries the third-highest point mark of the season among the five participants.

The Cardinals will also have teams competing in the 4x100-meter relay and the 4x400-meter relay. In the 4x100 race, the Cardinals are the sixth seed with their time of 42.47 seconds, while the 4x400 seed time of 3:27.22 is fifth.
 
The first event on Friday—the 100-meter dash, a part of the men's decathlon—begins at 2 p.m.

WHAT'S NEXT: The All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference (AARTFC) Championship is set for Wednesday, May 14, and Thursday, May 15, at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Several Cardinals have already qualified, with potentially more to come at the SUNYAC Championships.