The 2020 SUNY Cortland C-Club Athletic Awards Ceremony, originally scheduled for May 4, was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. In its place, Cortland Athletics is honoring its student-athletes as part of an online "Awards Week" series of releases May 4-8. The week concluded on Friday, May 8, with the announcement of the C-Club Senior Athletes of the Year and Coaches of the Year.

Women's golfer Danielle Bambola (Miller Place) has been chosen as the Female Senior Athlete of the Year and baseball outfielder Colin BeVard (Syracuse/West Genesee) has been named the Male Senior Athlete of the Year. Football head coach Dan MacNeill  and women's golf head coach Joe Tesori, Jr. have been selected as the Co-Coaches of the Year. The awards are sponsored by the C-Club and were voted upon by Cortland athletic administrators.

Bambola earned second-team All-America and first-team All-East Region honors this past year after winning four tournament titles and posting one second-place finish in five appearances. She was the Northeast Women's Golf Conference (NWGC) champion and defeated a highly competitive field at the Mount Holyoke Invitational. Bambola broke her own school record for two-day score (144) and tied her own single-round record (71) at the St. Lawrence Invitational, and she scored in the 70s in nine of her 10 rounds during the fall. Bambola has won 14 tournament titles during her collegiate career.

"What Danielle has done for the women's golf program has been remarkable," said Tesori. "Currently the record holder for lowest stroke average, most wins, most top tens, single round score and multi-round score. She didn't move the needle with this program, she is the needle. What she has meant to her teammates, as a role model and captain, speaks volumes. She has raised the bar for what our program is all about and I can't be any more proud of what she has become. What a ride it's been. I was just fortunate to be a part of it."

Other Female Senior Athlete of the Year finalists were: women's basketball guard Beth Bonin (Cicero/Cicero-North Syracuse); field hockey forward Hannah Burchell (Whitney Point), goalie Marisa D'Amico (Smithtown/Smithtown West) and forward/midfielder Molly Quinlan (Fayetteville/Fayetteville-Manlius); women's swimmer Kelly Davey (Plattsburgh); women's lacrosse midfielder Lexie Meager (Syracuse/West Genesee); and softball outfielder Kelly O'Gorman (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa).

BeVard is a two-time All-New York Region and two-time All-SUNYAC outfielder who also earned SUNYAC Rookie of the Year honors (2017). This season he was batting .308 with eight RBI through 11 games before the season was canceled. Despite the cancellation, BeVard still ranks in the top 30 at Cortland in nine statistical categories, including triples (11, tied for fifth), runs scored (130, 12th), total bases (234, 17th) and doubles (30, tied for 17th). He has a career .331 batting average in 142 games played, 129 as a starter, and Cortland is a combined 111-41-1 with three NCAA tournament appearances during his tenure.

"Colin is, simply put, one of the mentally toughest athletes I have ever coached," said Cortland baseball head coach Joe Brown. "He is a 'Cortland baseball player' – a term used when you have performed at the highest level and when you have embraced all that comes with the intense competition you face as a Cortland athlete. He will go down as a top-10 performer all-time when his career is complete next season. He is humble, confident and a very loyal Red Dragon."

Other Male Senior Athlete of the Year finalists were: men's track and field jumper Micah Assibey-Bonsu (Central Islip) and hurdler Brent DiVittorio (Brewster); men's lacrosse attack Terrence Haggerty (Centerport/Harborfields) and faceoff specialist Brian Williams (Holtsville/Sachem East); football quarterback Brett Segala (Webster/Schroeder) and tailback Zach Tripodi (New Fairfield, CT), and men's soccer midfielder Miguel Tunas (North Salem).

MacNeill retired as Cortland's football coach last December after 23 seasons at the Red Dragon helm. His teams compiled a combined record of 155-85 and earned 17 postseason berths, including six NCAA appearances, and he ranks first at Cortland in career victories and winning percentage. He led Cortland to an 8-3 record and its third straight New York Bowl berth in 2019.

Tesori was named the 2019 NWGC Coach of the Year after his Red Dragon squad convincingly won the league championship tournament last October. Cortland finished in the top four of all of their tournaments, including a first-place finish in the Cortaca Northeast Invitational. Tesori also led Cortland to back-to-back Empire 8 titles in 2017 and 2018. He will be stepping down from the head coaching position to pursue professional opportunities with the PGA.