Week 4 PAC Honors (for events between January 27-February 2)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 4 of the 2024-25 season.
 

PAC Track Athlete of the Week

Alex Mitchell • Grove City • Junior • Hummelstown, Pa./Harrisburg Christian Mitchell won the 400 in a time of 48.60 seconds and also won the 500 in a school-record time of 1:03.71 at the Youngstown State Mid-Major Invitational, held last Friday and Saturday ... Mitchell added a 10th-place finish in the 200 (22.55) and first among Division III sprinters in the event.

PAC Track Honor Roll

Allegheny junior Cole Jooste (Upper St. Clair, Pa./Upper St. Clair); Franciscan junior Andrew Madigan (Lawrenceville, N.J./The Wilberforce School); Geneva senior Kevin Arseneaux (Yarmouth Port, Mass./Dennis-Yarmouth Regional); Saint Vincent graduate student Tim Patterson (Butler, Pa./Butler); Thiel sophomore Logan Smith (Girard, Pa./Girard); W&J senior Brock Pennington (North East, Pa./North East); Waynesburg graduate student Quintin Weaver (Rimersburg, Pa./Union); Westminster graduate student Anthony Kamenski (Chicora, Pa./Karns City)

 

PAC Field Athlete of the Week

Aaron Moon • Allegheny • Senior • Springfield, Va./Lake Braddock Moon earned two top-five individual finishes at Baldwin Wallace's Dr. Taraschke Team Challenge ... He was second in the long jump with an AARTFC-qualifying mark of 6.86 meters/22-6.25, which would rank second in the PAC this year only behind Moon's long jump of 7.02m in December ... He also set a new PR in the high jump and finished fifth at 1.91 meters, which ranks second in the PAC this winter ... In addition, Moon ran on the 4x200 relay team, which took third with a time of 1:36.60.

PAC Field Honor Roll

Geneva graduate student Jack Garvin (Northumberland, Pa./Northumberland Christian); Grove City senior Ryan Lenhart (New Castle, Pa./Shenango); W&J sophomore Zachary Werner (McKeesport, Pa./McKeesport); Waynesburg senior Garrett Hilliard (Greenville, Pa./Greenville); Westminster junior Jalen Ritzert (Greenville, Pa./Greenville)

    

PAC Newcomer of the Week

Cameron Sadler • Allegheny • Freshman • Marcellus, N.Y./Marcellus Sadler placed top 10 in both throws and set one new PR at Baldwin Wallace's Dr. Taraschke Team Challenge ... He set a PR in the shot put, placing ninth out of 21 with a mark of 12.44 meters/40-9.75, which also ranks seventh in the PAC this year ... Sadler finished 10th out of 23 in the weight throw at 13.44 meters

PAC Newcomer Honor Roll

Franciscan freshman Mark Biagi (Powell, Ohio/Powell); Grove City freshman Jeremiah Knowles (Ephrata, Pa./Ephrata); Thiel freshman Josh Williams (Jacksonville, Fla./Atlantic Coast)

    

PAC Records & Milestones

Geneva's Kevin Arseneaux traveled to Penn State Friday for the school's National Open, where he took 45th overall in the 800 running against mainly Division I competition and his time of 1:56.09 was the fastest in the PAC this season by almost three seconds  ... Grove City's Ryan Lenhart finished sixth in the shot put at the YSU Mid-Major with a best heave of 48-1.75, which ranked first among Division III entrants in the event and is the top throw in the PAC this season ... At the YSU Mid-Major, Saint Vincent's Tim Patterson posted the top PAC time this year in the 3000 (8:48.21) and teamed with senior Aiden Jackson (Carroll, Ohio/William V. Fisher), sophomore PJ McNeal (Plum Borough, Pa./Plum) and junior Jordan Raynor (Lyndhurst, Ohio/The Lyceum School) to record a time of 10:28.69 in the Distance Medley Relay (DMR), which ranks 12th in the country ... After W&J's Brock Pennington posted a second-place finish at the YSU Mid Major in the one-mile run with a mark of 4:19.40, second-fastest in the PAC this year, he ran a leg on the DMR with junior Anthony Cestaro III (Memphis, Tenn./Christian Brothers), senior Julian Paul (Pittsburgh, Pa./Montour) and sophomore Dom Flitcraft (Aliquippa, Pa./Hopewell) which placed third overall (10:20.51), a time that is seventh-fastest in Division III this year ...  Quintin Weaver set Waynesburg's indoor mile record in 4:24.62 and notched the team's fourth-fastest 800 (1:59.07) at YSU, with those times ranking as the PAC's No. 2 800 and No. 4 mile this season ... Westminster's Jalen Ritzert finished the heptathlon in sixth place with career-best 3,756 points at YSU's Mid-Major Invitational, which tops the PAC's Performance List in the event and ranks 12th in the Mid-Atlantic Region.