Male Student-Athlete of the Week
Lance Hayes, Sacred Heart, Men’s Indoor Track & Field
Gr. / Queensbury, NY, Queensbury, H.S.
Hayes competed in the Wagner Seahawk Shootout at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Friday and emerged victorious in the 600 meters with a 1:20.82 clocking. Not only did the redshirt senior best a field of 67 entries, but he also broke his own school record in the event by more than a second. Hayes set his old record of 1:21.90 in last year's Seahawk Shootout.
Female Student-Athlete of the Week
Tayla Gunton, Iona, Women’s Indoor Track & Field
Sr. / Cairns, Australia, St. Andrew's Catholic
Senior Tayla Gunton opened the 2025–26 indoor season with a historic performance, setting a new Iona University women’s 5,000-meter record at the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener. Competing as the Gaels’ lone entrant, Gunton ran 16:00.63, shattering her personal best by nearly 50 seconds and breaking the previous school record of 16:01.28 set in 2006. She finished just 0.63 seconds shy of becoming the program’s first sub-16 performer.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 13 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 45th year of competition during the 2024-25 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius University, Fairfield University, Iona University, Manhattan University, Marist University, Merrimack College, Mount St. Mary’s University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Sacred Heart University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena University.
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