West Babylon, N.Y. - St. Thomas Aquinas College Men's Track & Field standout Emmanuel Mena Jimenez has been selected as the 2024 ECC Outdoor Track & Field Male Athlete of the Year on Friday.

Now the three-time defending ECC Outdoor Track & Field Male Athlete of the Year, Mena Jimenez (West Haverstraw, N.Y.) competed 20 times across the hammer throw, discus, and shot put this spring and only twice placed outside of the top three. Mena Jimenez won the hammer throw all seven times in which he competed in the event and won the discus three times (2nd - 2x, 3rd - 2x) and shot put three times. On the ECC stage, Mena Jimenez won all three of those individual events, totaling 30 points for the runner-up Spartans. Mena Jimenez leads the NCAA East Region and ranks 13th in the nation in the discus (54.92m/180' 2”), leads the NCAA East Region and ranks 28th in the nation in the hammer throw (59.18m/194' 2”), and ranks sixth in the NCAA East Region in the shot put (15.39m/50' 6”). 

Mena Jimenez has qualified to compete in the NCAA Division II National Championships, which will be hosted by Emporia State University, and held at Francis G. Welch Stadium in Emporia, Kansas on May 23-25. Mena Jimenez will be making his third appearance at a Division II National Championship, having competed in the Discus at the outdoor meet last May and the Weight Throw at the indoor event this past March.