St. Thomas Aquinas senior Emmanuel Mena Jimenez (West Haverstraw, N.Y.) has been selected as a 2024 ECC Outdoor Track & Field Championships Most Outstanding Male Athlete, as voted on by the league’s head coaches and announced on Friday afternoon.

Mena Jimenez won three individual events at the conference meet up at Roberts Wesleyan on Thursday, May 2. The St. Thomas Aquinas senior standout won the discus in 53.92m (176’ 11”), which met the NCAA Division II provisional mark and broke STAC’s program record, as well as as the shot put in 15.18m (49’ 9 3/4”) and hammer throw in 53.60m (175’ 10”). In all, Mena Jimenez took home 20 percent of STAC’s total points (30/149), as the Spartans placed second as a team. 

Additionally, the ECC announced its All-Conference honorees based on finishing place at the ECC Championship. Those STAC honorees are as follows.

Men

Miles Fisher: 4x100 Meter Relay (1st Tm), 110 Meter Hurdles (2nd Tm), High Jump (2nd Tm), Triple Jump (2nd Tm)

Leelan Maxwell: 4x100 Meter Relay (1st Tm), Long Jump (1st Tm), 100 Meter Dash (2nd Tm)

Christan Watson: 4x100 Meter Relay (1st Tm)

Jayden Bennermon: 4x100 Meter Relay (1st Tm), High Jump (1st Tm), Triple Jump (1st Tm), Long Jump (2nd Tm)

Emmanuel Mena Jimenez: Shot Put (1st Tm), Discus (1st Tm), Hammer Throw (1st Tm)

Adam Lenn: Discus (1st Tm), Shot Put (2nd Tm), Hammer Throw (2nd Tm)

Charlie Moore: 400 Meter Hurdles (2nd Tm)

Ethan Zweigbaum: Shot Put (2nd Tm)

Gavin Kopf: Discus (2nd Tm)

Women

Emily Strunk: Shot Put (1st Tm), Discus (1st Tm)

Ciara Durcan: 10,000 Meter Run (2nd Tm)

Ciara Doyle: 4x100 Meter Relay (2nd Tm)

Jazmin Rogers: 4x100 Meter Relay (2nd Tm)

Isabella Farino-Esposito: 4x100 Meter Relay (2nd Tm)

Aalianne Gilbert: 4x100 Meter Relay (2nd Tm)

Alana Rider: Triple Jump (2nd Tm)

Kristen Kennedy: Javelin (2nd Tm)