GENEVA, OHIO - The men's 4x100 relay team and Benjamin Bulger in the 400-meter hurdles both earned NCAA Division III First Team All-American finishes Saturday on the third and final day of the national championships from SPIRE Institute. Each took the sixth spot on the podium to cement their first team status, returning the River Hawks to said category at outdoor nationals for the first time since 2023. 

The men's 4x100 team of Dominic Santos, Mason Winslow, Austin Hurrell, and Brandon Zimmerman made it to Saturday's finals race after earning the ninth and final spot in Thursday's prelims at 40.84. The team that entered the week holding the 17th-fasest NCAA Division III time (14th not including duplicates) with a school-record 40.72 got to within .04 seconds of that standard at 40.76, finishing sixth overall in a race that yielded three sub-40 times, including the foursome from Wisconsin La Crosse winning with a new meet record 39.66. Bulger, who came into the week with the fastest Division III time at 51.47 and posting the fastest preliminary time of 51.99 on Thursday, ran a respectable 52.75 for the sixth-fastest time and just .49 seconds off the winner from Colby Levi Biery, who ran a 52.26. 

The five River Hawks collectively put Susquehanna back on the podium at the NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships since Bryce Ellinger finished third in the high jump at the 2023 title bout in Rochester, N.Y. Susquehanna men's track and field fittingly made it to the final competitive day in the NCAA Div. III realm to cap off a historic spring that saw them host and win their fifth straight Landmark Conference outdoor championship, while earning their first-ever All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference (AARTFC) championship that produced many high marks and the team qualifying for six events at nationals. Aside from the 4x100 and Bulger's 400H, the River Hawks' national qualifiers included Zimmerman in the long jump and 100 meters, Elliott Davis in the 400 meters, and Calder Diakite in the 110-meter hurdles. In addition, Bulger received the Landmark's Track Performer of the Year, while Diakite earned the league's Rookie of the Year. Head coach Ethan Senecal and staff earned the Landmark's Coaching Staff of the Year.