Cortland senior women's soccer and women's ice hockey player Katie Diem (Fairport) has been chosen as the Dr. Dolores Bogard Award winner and senior men's track and field athlete Isaiah Brunache (Bennington, VT/Mount Anthony Union) has been named the Dr. Sam Molnar Award winner for the 2025-26 school year by the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC).
 
The Bogard Award is presented to a senior women's student-athlete and the Molnar Awards is presented to a senior men's student-athlete for an outstanding combination of academic and athletic achievements. The recipient must have a 3.30 or higher cumulative grade point average. Bogard was an administrator and coach at SUNY Cortland for more than 20 years and served as SUNYAC President during the 1987-88 school year. Molnar was the director of athletics and coached numerous sports at SUNY Potsdam for more than 30 years. He served as the SUNYAC President during the 1962-63 and 1963-64 school years.
 
Diem is Cortland's eighth SUNYAC Bogard Award winner and first since gymnast Maddie Scozzie in the 2014-15 school year. The award originated in the 1983-84 school year and was named for Bogard in 1993-94. Brunache is Cortland's third Molnar Award winner and first since football player Adam Haas in the 2005-06 school year. The award began in 1975-76 and was named for Molnar two years later.

Diem was a defender on Cortland's women's soccer team and a forward on the Red Dragons' women's ice hockey team. A biology major with a 3.98 overall GPA, Diem became Cortland's first-ever women's soccer Academic All-American with her selection last fall on the CSC Academic All-America first team. She also was named both the SUNYAC and SUNY Women's Soccer Scholar Athlete of the Year.
 
Diem earned United Soccer Coaches first-team all-region honors, was the SUNYAC Defensive Player of the Year, and was tabbed to the SUNYAC women's soccer all-tournament team as she helped the Red Dragons win the conference title. She finished the season with four goals and three assists in 21 games, and in 39 games had career totals of five goals and five assists.
 
During the women's ice hockey season, Diem played in 22 games and registered five goals, seven assists and a plus-17 rating. She helped Cortland advance to the SUNYAC tournament championship game. Her hockey career totals were eight goals and nine assists in 39 games.
 
Diem was named the SUNYAC Elite 20 Award winner, given to the athlete with the highest GPA among teams at each conference championship site, for both soccer and hockey. She was also selected as the SUNY Cortland Athletics Women's Senior Athlete of the Year.
 
Brunache, an exercise science major with a 3.91 overall GPA, was a seven-time All-American as a thrower on the men's track and field team. He was the national runner-up in the shot put at both the 2023 and 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, in addition to finishing fifth in the weight throw and seventh in the shot put indoors in 2026, seventh in the weight throw indoors in 2025, eighth in the discus outdoors in 2026, and eighth in the shot put indoors in 2025. He also qualified for nationals in events on six other occasions.
 
Brunache is the school record-holder in the indoor weight throw (19.85 meters/65' 1.5"), the indoor shot put (17.57 meters/57' 7.75") and the outdoor shot put (18.21 meters/59' 9"). He was a three-time USTFCCCA Niagara Region Field Athlete of the Year (2025 outdoors, 2026 indoors, 2026 outdoors) and an 18-time All-Niagara Region honoree (indoor shot put four times, indoor weight throw four times, outdoor discus four times, outdoor hammer throw twice, outdoor shot put four times). Brunache also was a five-time All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference (AARTFC) champion and two-time runner-up (plus six other AARTFC top-8 finishes)
 
Brunache won eight SUNYAC titles, finished as a runner-up six times and placed third twice for a total of 16 All-SUNYAC honors. He was voted as the SUNYAC Field Athlete of the Year three times (2025 outdoors, 2026 indoors, 2026 outdoors), was the 2024 and 2025 SUNYAC Outdoor Championship and 2026 SUNYAC Indoor Championship Most Valuable Performer of the Meet, and was named the 2023 SUNYAC Rookie of the Year
 
Brunache was honored as a 2025 CSC First Team Academic All-American and a three-time (2024-26) CSC Academic All-District selection, and he's eligible for consideration for Academic All-America honors in 2026 (will be announced in July). He's a six-time SUNY Scholar Athlete of the Year (three indoor, three outdoor) and five-time SUNYAC Scholar Athlete of the Year (two indoor, three outdoor), and he was chosen as the SUNY Cortland Athletics Men's Senior Athlete of the Year.