ROCHESTER, NY – Cortland senior Autumn Pittman (Spring Valley/Ramapo) finished in 20th place in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.79 seconds during the first day of competition at the 2025 NCAA Division III Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships at Nazareth University's Golisano Training Center.
 
Pittman, a second team All-American last year with an 11th-place finish in the event, was sixth in the first of three heats in the prelims. She finished 0.11 seconds behind 16th place, which would have garnered second team All-America honors. Lauren Jarrett of Wisconsin La Crosse recorded the top preliminary time of 7.29 seconds.  

Coach's Corner - Comments from Cortland Head Coach Steve Patrick 

We had a pretty exciting day overall for the Red Dragons!

With Isaiah, getting on the podium for the first time indoors is pretty fantastic, as is setting two new personal bests! A big thing from our end was how well he improved from throw to throw – that takes a lot of mental skill and focus, which he put on display today. We're excited for tomorrow!

Unfortunately it wasn't the best time of the season for Autumn, but that's OK – the process of getting back to this meet is by itself incredibly challenging, and she was unfortunately battling some illness over the past couple of days into today. She's had an amazing senior indoor season, with a great deal that we are proud of, including finishing off her indoor career as the school record-holder in both the 60 and the 200!

Josh ran a good opening round in the 400, and put himself into a very nice position for tomorrow's final! That should be a great opportunity!

The men's relay really competed well! Hats off first to Evan for battling back from what he felt was a disappointing race in the open 400 to put us into good position. It would have been understandable if he had focused on being negative, but he choose to be positive and tough, which is all we can ask for. The run from Zion was great because he did an excellent job of staying patient in the first lap and then moving us into the lead with a very strong second lap; Harrison started his leg by executing a great changeover of the baton from Zion to extend the lead and then executed his race plan extremely well before handing it off to Josh – who put down a very fast time in his leg. We've very excited for what tomorrow can bring not only for the relay and Isaiah, but of course also for Amarian Hughes in the triple jump.