SELINSGROVE, PA - Susquehanna University's winter sports teams achieved plenty to celebrate successful seasons, highlighted by men's basketball and men's track & field winning the Landmark Conference championship. Efforts like these kept the River Hawks in third place in the Landmark's Presidents' Trophy winter standings with an 8.85 average. University of Scranton holds the top spot with an 11.58 average, while Catholic is second with a 10.13 average. 

Both the men's and women's basketball teams reached extraordinary heights this winter. The women posted their best season wins total since 1991-92 with a 21-5 mark and earning the second seed for the Landmark Tournament, their highest-ever finish in the Landmark after capturing a 14-4 league record. Julia Roth and Julia Pinckert earned First Team All-Landmark honors, while Carly George was named to the Second Team. Roth went on to achieve D3hoops.com All-Region V Second Team honors. The men's path to the Landmark championship was more arduous. In late January the team was outside the Landmark Tournament picture and needed a strong showing through their last six games to get back in. They went on to win four of their last six games, highlighted by a thrilling overtime win against first-place Catholic. This was enough to earn the sixth and final seed for the tournament, needing to win three on the road for the ultimate prize. They upset Scranton 85-78 in the opening round game, then visited Drew for the third straight year in the Landmark Semifinals, defeating the Rangers 93-87. This sent them to their fourth Landmark Championship game appearance in six seasons, defeating Wilkes, 76-72, to capture their third-ever Landmark title. 

On the same day as the men's basketball championship, the men's indoor track & field team clinched their fifth consecutive Landmark Conference championship just moments before their men's basketball counterparts took the court against Wilkes. They won six events at the Landmark championships, while boasting six Second Team finishers and two Honorable Mentions. Calder El Bachir Diakite was named the Landmark's Men's Track Performer of the Year after winning the 60-meter hurdles and the 200 meters, while setting a new conference and championship meet record in the 60H with a time of 8.10. This time earned him a spot at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Ala. On the women's side they made it a Susquehanna sweep in the pole vault as first-year Kendall Simms stunned the establishment by clearing the winning height of 3.61 meters, joining men's pole vaulter Seth Taub at the top of podium after he cleared 4.05m on his first try. Simms, who constantly rewrote the school pole vault record all winter, used her last opportunity to do it again at the AARTFC Championships, going 3.82m and finishing in the top 25 in NCAA Division III. 

The men's and women's swimming and diving teams finished their first season under new head coach John Funk. They flourished at the Landmark Championship in February as the men finished fourth, while the women took fifth, continuing a run of placing in the top half of the Landmark standings. The River Hawks earned one medalist at the four-day championships, with women's diver Valerie Stoltz took bronze in the one-meter diving (11 dives) with 297.90 points, which is now the third-highest total in team history. On that same topic the women had three more entries into the program's top ten record books, with Stoltz having the fourth-highest one-meter diving total in the six-dive category at 186.00. First-year Tessa Cronin made two entries of her own in SU's top ten, holding the seventh-fastest time in the 50-yard freestyle at 24.88 and the tenth-fastest in the 100-yard freestyle at 54.88. For the men they had seven new entries to the program's top ten: Kaden TenEyck third in the 100 backstroke (52.68), eighth in the 50 freestyle (21.51) and ninth in the 100 freestyle (47.53); Dan Venuti fourth in the 100 butterfly (52.11), fifth in the 200 individual medley (1:57.54), and sixth in the 200 backstroke (1:57.28); Tim Wetmore seventh in the 400 individual medley (4:19.65).