SUNYAC INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Friday, February 27 through Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026
SUNY Brockport SERC Field House – Brockport, NY
 
SUNYAC RELEASE (Includes Event Schedule and Meet Information)
 
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-Available for purchase on site
-Adults - $10 per day 
-Children Ages 5-12 - $5 per day
-Children under the age of 4 – FREE
-Students of SUNYAC schools with ID – FREE
 
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THE BREAKDOWN… The Cortland women's and men's track and field teams will look to defend their conference titles from last year at the SUNYAC Championships on Friday and Saturday, hosted at the SERC Field House on the campus of SUNY Brockport. 
 
The meet will have the same teams competing as last year. Eight full conference members - Buffalo State, Cortland, Fredonia, Morrisville, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburgh, and Potsdam - are joined by associate members Alfred State, Penn State-Behrend, Cobleskill, and Delhi to make up a 12-team championship meet. Alfred State, Cobleskill, and Delhi will become full members of the SUNYAC next school year. 
 
On the women's side, Cortland is looking for its 20th team title. The Red Dragons have the most titles of any SUNYAC school, with Buffalo State (4 titles), Fredonia (2), and Oneonta (1) as the only other current members to claim a conference title. 
 
The Cortland men are in search of a 10th title this year. The Red Dragons trail only Fredonia (16 titles) for the most team titles of current members. Buffalo State (2) and Oneonta (2) are the only other current members to have won a conference title.  
 
RETURNERS FROM LAST YEAR'S MEET… Cortland won conference titles on both the men's and women's sides at last year's SUNYAC Indoor Championships, also hosted by Brockport. The Red Dragon men scored 233 team points, more than double the total of second-place finisher Oneonta (103). The Cortland women scored even more team points than the men, totaling 243.5 team points to finish with nearly twice the points of Oneonta (124.5) in second place.

The Cortland women return three SUNYAC champions from last year – Lillian Swyers (Peru), Kayla Tretola (Levittown/Island Trees), and Jennifer Ndukwu (Queens/Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School). Swyers won the triple jump, and earned a second-place finish in the long jump and a third-place finish in the 60 hurdles. Tretola was the conference champion in the shot put, while also finishing fifth in the weight throw, and Ndukwu was first in the weight throw and third in the shot put. 
 
Melissa Innocent (Elmont/Valley Stream North) will look to improve on a pair of second-place finishes from last year in the 3,000 meters and the mile, while Cheyenne McPeek (Johnson City) recorded a second-place finish in the shot put and was third in the weight throw.  
 
Other returning all-conference selections for Cortland are Reilly Quinn (Morrisonville/Beekmantown), who tied for third in the high jump, the entire distance medley relay team of Jewel Jones (Long Beach), Emily Pierro (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown), Mia Hannan (Lynbrook/Sacred Heart Academy), and Sammie Salisbury (Poughkeepsie/Arlington) that placed third, and one member of the second place 4x400 relay in Yasmine Peralta (Monroe/Monroe-Woodbury). Jones was also fifth individually in the mile.
  
Two Red Dragons who recorded a pair of top-8 finishers return in Eilise Marino (West Sayville/Sayville), who was fourth in the 60 hurdles and sixth in the triple jump, as well as Hannah McMasters (Homer), who was fourth in the weight throw and sixth in the shot put. 
 
Six other Cortland athletes finished in fourth place in an event last year and will look to earn all-conference honors this season – Katie Ball (Smithtown/Smithtown East) in the pentathlon, Kelly Newman (Harrison) in the 800 meters, Anne Barney (Oakland, NJ/Indian Hills) in the 3,000 meters, Alexa Wolcott (Wyoming/Pavilion) in the 5,000 meters, Faith Hoyt (Pittsford/Pittsford Mendon) in the pole vault, and Hannah Nolan (Montour Falls/Odessa-Montour) in the triple jump. 
 
Wrapping up the point scorers for Cortland that are back this season are Phoebe Peer (Saranac Lake) and Gabby Collins (East Northport/Elwood-John Glenn), who were seventh in the 3,000 meters and 60 hurdles, respectively, and eight-place finishers Grace Reed (South Windsor, CT) in the high jump and Caitlin Maher (Hartsdale/Ardsley) in the triple jump. 
 
The Cortland men have two individual champions returning - Isaiah Brunache (Bennington, VT/Mount Anthony Union) and John Anderson (Ithaca). Brunache defended his title in the weight throw and will look for a third straight conference crown in the event this year, and will look to defend a title in the shot put. Anderson claimed the heptathlon individual conference title.
 
Brandon Mullholland (Syracuse/Westhill) claimed a second-place finish in the 5,000 meters and was third in the 3,000 meters. Zion Cheatham (Lockport), Evan Collette (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa), and Vincent Smaldone (Red Hook) also each recorded a pair of top-5 finishes, with Cheatham placing second in the 400 meters and fifth in the 200 meters, Collette finishing second in the weight throw and fifth in the shot put, and Smaldone finishing fourth in the 5,000 meters and fifth in the 3,000 meters. 
 
Matthew Breslin (Islip) was the final returner to earn all-conference honors in an individual event, placing third in the pole vault, while Hector Ramos (Evans Mills/Indian River), Declan Kennedy (Lakewood/Southwestern), and Jordan Wingert (Verona/Vernon-Verona-Sherrill) helped the distance medley relay finish second for relay all-conference honors.Wingert also finished sixth individually in the mile, while Ramos was eighth in the 800 meters.
 
The 4x400 relay team of Cabe Hogue (Corning/Corning Painted Post), Sean Keane (Riverhead), and Jason Zaita (Selden/Centereach) registered a fourth-place finish, while Zaita and Hogue each also had sixth-place finishes individually. 
 
Travis Iwuagwu (Suffern) and Deontae Bennett (Riverdale, GA/Greenwich, NY) also finished in the top-5 of their events, with Iwuagwu placing fifth in the 60 hurdles and Bennett in the 60 meters. 
 
Also recording top-8 finishes for Cortland were Hunter Rautenstrauch (Buffalo/West Seneca West), Joffre Proano (Hampton Bays), Hayden Erick (Dundee), Lucas Chamberlain (Copake/Taconic Hills), and LeBron Richardson (Pelham/Pelham Memorial).
 
THE CORTLAND CAPSULE… The Red Dragons opened the indoor season in December with split competition between Utica and Cornell, with Melissa Innocent, Hannah McMasters, Annabelle Schuck (Saratoga Springs), and Abby Hardy (Johnson City) all placing first for the Cortland women. Meanwhile, the men were led by first-place finishes from Taoig Cypher (Irvington), Elliott Supley (Peru), Isaiah Brunache, and Manuel Sepelveda (East Rochester).
 
Cortland began competition in January with three straight weekends of competition at Ithaca, before back-to-back weekends at Utica. During the meets at Ithaca, Gianna Boland earned a victory in the triple jump, Innocent won the mile, Reilly Quinn won the long jump, and Ndukwu won the weight throw. The men were led by three straight wins in the shot put and two victories and a second-place finish in the weight throw by Brunache. Meanwhile, Sepulveda won the triple jump and the long jump, LeBron Richardson, Christian Kahrs (Cicero/Cicero-North Syracuse), Hunter Rautenstrauch, and Travis Iwuagwu all registering first-place finishes at Ithaca.

Cortland closed the regular season by splitting up for meets at Nazareth on Friday and Cornell on Saturday, highlighted by Ndukwu breaking the school record in the weight throw and Brunache besting his own school record in the weight throw. 
 
RECORD-BREAKING PERFORMANCES… In the final weekend of action before the conference championship meet, Isaiah Brunache broke his own school record in the weight throw with a mark of 19.84 meters. Jennifer Ndukwu also set a school record in the weight throw on the same day, throwing 17.03 meters to break a six-year old school record set by Harley Buczkowski in 2019. 
 
SUNYAC WEEKLY WINNERS… Cortland has claimed SUNYAC weekly awards 17 times this season. Isaiah Brunache has been selected as the Men's Field Athlete of the Week five times, while Melissa Innocent was the Women's Track Athlete of the Week three times. Jennifer Ndukwu and Hannah McMasters both won the weekly field award on the women's side twice. Kyler Alston (Latham/Shaker) and Zion Cheatham were the Men's Track Athlete of the Week once, and Evan Collette was selected for the weekly field award on the men's side once. Gianna Boland and Reilly Quinn each earned the Women's Field Athlete of the Week one time. 
 
SEEDED FIRST, OR SECOND, OR THIRD…The following Red Dragons are ranked in the top three in their events in the SUNYAC:

MEN
Alston, Garafola, Radcliff, Cheatham - 4x400 relay (1st)
John Anderson – Heptathlon (1st)
Isaiah Brunache – Shot Put (1st)
Isaiah Brunache – Weight Throw (1st)
Manuel Sepulveda – Triple Jump (1st)
Evan Collette – Weight Throw (2nd)
Nicholas Malette – Heptathlon (2nd)
Elliott Supley – Shot Put (2nd)
Evan Collette – Shot Put (3rd)
Skylar McFarling – Pole Vault (3rd)
Chris Mateo – High Jump (3rd)
Vincent Smaldone – Mile (3rd)

WOMEN
Melissa Innocent – Mile (1st)
Melissa Innocent – 3,000 Meters (1st)
Jennifer Ndukwu – Weight Throw (1st)
Reilly Quinn – Long Jump (1st)
Katie Ball – Pentathlon (2nd)
Gianna Boland – Triple Jump (2nd)
Reilly Quinn – High Jump (2nd)
Kendall Sobczyk – 60 Meters (2nd)
Kayla Tretola – Shot Put (2nd)
Faith Hoyt – Pole Vault
Hannah McMasters – Weight Throw
Jennifer Ndukwu – Shot Put (3rd)
Annabelle Schuck – Long Jump (3rd)
Georgia Spuches Jwaskiewicz – High Jump (3rd)
Lillian Swyers – Triplr Jump (3rd)
Lillian Swyers – 60 Hurdles (3rd)
Alexa Wolcott – 5,000 Meters (3rd)

 
SCHEDULES/RESULTS (click team to access online schedules)…

CORTLAND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
 
CORTLAND MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD