ALFRED, NY – As of Tuesday, June 9, the Empire 8 released its President's List, which included 154 Alfred University student-athletes that garnered a term GPA of 3.75 or higher and 21 teams earning All-Academic for have GPA's of 3.20 or higher.
 
The Saxon teams were led by women's volleyball with a term GPA of 3.80 and were followed closely by the men's tennis team with a GPA of 3.78. Both teams had exactly 60% of their roster earn Empire 8 President's List. All 10 men's tennis players posted a GPA of 3.50 or higher, earning Dean's List and 86.67% of the volleyball earned Dean's List. The Saxon men's tennis team led the entire Empire 8 for men's teams. The women's volleyball team was in the top four E8 institutions for the women.
 
Additionally, the football team had a total of eight student-athletes with a 4.00 GPA or higher, followed by both the women's volleyball team and baseball team, each having five.
 
In total, Alfred University's 507 student-athletes posted a department GPA of 3.27, 245 of them earned Dean's List, 318 had a 3.20 or higher for Saxon Scholar, 53 of them had 4.00's and 362 had over a 3.00. All 28 teams had above a 3.00.
 
Below is the full lest of Empire 8 President's List members (all athletes listed were on the official roster listings at the end of the Spring '26 semester): 
 
Women's Alpine Skiing
-Gail Miller (Dayton, OH/Stivers School for the Arts)
 
Baseball
-Alex Beaird (Oswego, IL/Oswego)
-Michael Calogero (Henrietta, NY/Aquinas Institute)
-Ashton Goring (Brampton, ON, Canada/Cardinal Ambrozic Secondary)
-Thomas Makela (Cocoa, FL/Cocoa)
-Kyle Miller (Corning, NY/Corning-Painted Post)
-TJ Pappas (Saddle Brook, NJ/Saddle Brook)
-Nolan Pridmore (Toronto, ON, Canada/Etobicoke Collegiate Institute)
-Luke Rogoff (Cortland, NY/Cortland)
-JT Stein (Surprise, AZ/Willow Canyon)
-Will Timpano (Orillia, ON, Canada/Patrick Fogarty Catholic Secondary School)
-Anthony Zito (Dover, PA/Dover Area)
 
Men's Basketball
-Tyler Curran (Allegany, NY/Allegany-Limestone)
-Nolan Gilbert (Mechanicsburg, PA/Cumberland Valley)
-Robby Hicks (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa)
-Damon Merazzi (Glen Head, NY/North Shore)
-Chris Redhead (Mt. Kisco, NY/Fox Lane/Salisbury)
-Tarren Wilkins (New Rochelle, NY/Mount St. Michael)
 
Women's Basketball
-Ava Anastasi (Sanborn, NY/Starpoint)
-Natalee Collins (Waterville, NY/Waterville)
-Briana Dorr (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa)
-Eileen Hein (Chicago, IL/Loyola Academy)
-Peyton McInnis (Ransomville, NY/Wilson)
-Kate Quinn (West Seneca, NY/West Seneca West)
-Olivia Van Dewater (Buffalo, NY/Kenmore West)
 
Men's Cross Country
-Damian Brown (Homer, NY/Homer)
-Finnegan Dean (Potsdam, NY/Potsdam Central)
-Evan Foran (Vestal, NY/Vestal)
-Ahmad Yasir Majidy (Herat, Afghanistan/Quality Schools International Dushanbe)
 
Women's Cross Country
-Morgan Brinkmann (Manchester, MO/Parkway South)
-Vivian Crane (Branchport, NY/Avoca)
-Vladyslava Makarenko (Berdychiv, Ukraine/Lyceum 23)
-Daria Melnychuk (Vinnytsia, Ukraine/Podillia Scientific and Technical Lyceum for Gifted Youth / The Principia)
-Sydney Ribble (Addison, NY/Addison)
-Natalya Ryckman (New Eagle, PA/Ringgold)
 
Dressage Equestrian
-Maggie Childs (Webster, NY/Webster Thomas)
-Ryann McElroy (Roscoe, NY/Sullivan West)
-Isabella Rabiner (Saugerties, NY/Saugerties)
-Samantha Smit (Columbiana, OH/Ursuline)
-Megan Wilson (Youngstown, OH/Ursuline)
 
Field Hockey
-Isabella Casalinova (Bennington, VT/Mount Anthony Union)
-Izzy Santella (Middleport, NY/Royalton Hartland)
 
Football
-Maverick Adams (Randolph, NY/Randolph)
-Thomas Bennett (Wantagh, NY/General Douglas MacArthur)
-Jack Bestpitch (Buffalo, NY/St. Mary's of Lancaster)
-Steven Bidwell (Owego, NY/Owego Free Academy)
-Sean Blakley (Colonie, NY/Colonie Central)
-Dominic Bronco (Rochester, NY/Aquinas)
-Domanik Clark (Randolph, NY/Randolph)
-Colin Crowell (Fredonia, NY/Fredonia)
-Martin Flanders Jr (Schuylerville, NY/Schuylerville)
-Timothy Ford (Odenton, MD/Arundel)
-Lucas Freeland (Buffalo, NY/West Seneca West)
-Nick Gaglio (Webster, NY/Webster Thomas)
-Jake Griggs (Fishkill, NY/John Jay)
-Emmanuel Guerrero (Amherst, NY/St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute)
-Andy Mardice Jr (Riverhead, NY/Riverhead)
-TJ Marsh (East Aurora, NY/East Aurora)
-Soi Meade (Springville, NY/Springville-Griffith Institute)
-Dan Mucica (Buffalo, NY/St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute)
-Leonardo Poggi (Bologna, Italy/Liceo Malpighi)
-Dominik Stack (Hamburg, NY/Frontier)
-Benjamin Staneart (Arlington, TX/Grace Preparatory Academy)
-Ryan Waddell (Windsor, NY/Windsor Central)
-Thomas Welch (Avon, NY/Avon)
-Ashton Werner (Windsor, NY/Windsor Central)
 
Hunt Seat Equestrian
-Maggie Childs (Webster, NY/Webster Thomas)
-Alyssa Dailey (Rushville, NY/Marcus Whitman)
-Lucia Jackson-Young (Ithaca, NY/Lehman Alternative Community School)
-Stephen Kuss IV (Syracuse, NY/Cicero-North Syracuse)
-Ryann McElroy (Roscoe, NY/Sullivan West)
-Isabella Rabiner (Saugerties, NY/Saugerties)
-Carleigh Santavy (Commerce, MI/Walled Lake Northern)
-Will Utzman (Fairport, NY/Fairport)
 
Men's Indoor Track & Field
-Damian Brown (Homer, NY/Homer)
-Finnegan Dean (Potsdam, NY/Potsdam Central)
-Evan Foran (Vestal, NY/Vestal)
 
Women's Indoor Track & Field
-Paula Altschaft (Buffalo, NY/West Seneca West)
-Morgan Brinkmann (Manchester, MO/Parkway South)
-Vivian Crane (Branchport, NY/Avoca)
-Vladyslava Makarenko (Berdychiv, Ukraine/Lyceum 23)
-Daria Melnychuk (Vinnytsia, Ukraine/Podillia Scientific and Technical Lyceum for Gifted Youth / The Principia)
-Shansanique Pollack (Troy, NY/Lansingburgh)
-Sydney Ribble (Addison, NY/Addison)
-Natalya Ryckman (New Eagle, PA/Ringgold)
 
Men's Lacrosse
-Ben Cunningham (Dover, MD/The Gunston School)
-Keagan Hoesterey (Palmyra, NY/Palmyra-Macedon)
-Tariq Joseph Jr (Newark, NY/Newark)
-Brady McGowan (Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park)
-Alex Petrangelo (Niskayuna, NY/Niskayuna)
-Brendan Riley (Fairport, NY/Fairport)
-Kyle Wright (Homer, NY/Homer)
 
Women's Lacrosse
-Kylee Bedette (Waterloo, NY/Waterloo)
-Jessica Matson (Binghamton, NY/Chenango Valley)
-Kate Quinn (West Seneca, NY/West Seneca West)
-Lauren Sfeir (Whitesboro, NY/Whitesboro)
-Paige Stansfield (Painted Post, NY/Corning-Painted Post)
-Morgan Wise (Kittanning, PA/Armstrong)
 
Men's Outdoor Track & Field
-Jordan Annlee (Henrietta, NY/Rush-Henrietta)
-Damian Brown (Homer, NY/Homer)
-Finnegan Dean (Potsdam, NY/Potsdam Central)
-Evan Foran (Vestal, NY/Vestal)
 
Women's Outdoor Track & Field
-Paula Altschaft (Buffalo, NY/West Seneca West)
-Morgan Brinkmann (Manchester, MO/Parkway South)
-Vivian Crane (Branchport, NY/Avoca)
-Briana Dorr (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa)
-Vladyslava Makarenko (Berdychiv, Ukraine/Lyceum 23)
-Daria Melnychuk (Vinnytsia, Ukraine/Podillia Scientific and Technical Lyceum for Gifted Youth / The Principia)
-Shansanique Pollack (Troy, NY/Lansingburgh)
-Sydney Ribble (Addison, NY/Addison)
-Natalya Ryckman (New Eagle, PA/Ringgold)
 
Men's Rugby
-Chevon Adriaans (Paramaribo, Suriname/SGS)
-Ehab AlQtam (Malah, Yemen/Newcomb Central)
-Eddie Hart IV (Wilton, NY/Saratoga Springs)
-Ayomideji Israel-Akinbo (Makhanda, Eastern Cape, South Africa/St. Andrews College)
-Maximillian Leyhane (Fayetteville, NY/Fayetteville-Manlius)
 
Women's Rugby
-Danielle Bennett (Hammondsport, NY/Hammondsport Central)
-Allison Parnes (New Hyde Park, NY/Homeschool)
-Cori Recktenwald (Corning, NY/Corning-Painted Post)
-Amelia Ren Vermeer (Des Moines, IA/Theodore Roosevelt)
-Jordayn Williams (Palmdale, CA/Quartz Hill)
 
Men's Soccer
-Ian Ashworth (Hornell, NY/Hornell)
-Landon Berry (Penn Yan, NY/Penn Yan Academy)
-Jesus De La Torre (Malaga, Spain/The Woodstock Academy)
-AJ Giaquinto (Burnt Hills, NY/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake)
-Niko Lampros Mendoza (Lake Oswego, OR/Lakeridge)
-Rodrigo Perez (Pelencia, Spain/IES Victorio Macho)
 
Women's Soccer
-Kiani Barnard-Pratt (Westford, MA/Westford Academy)
-Amber Bates (Jamesville, NY/Jamesville-DeWitt)
-Isabelle Dennis (Livonia, NY/Livonia)
-Anna Henner (Williamson, NY/Williamsville Senior)
-Reagan Hunt (Severna Park, MD/Severna Park)
-Sidney Khuns (Spencerport, NY/Spencerport)
-Meghan Lyle (Portville, NY/Portville Central)
-Lola Prevost (Pelham, Ontario, Canada/Notre Dame)
-Madison Rudenauer (Hornell, NY/Hornell)
-Abby Scanlan (Albion, NY/Charles D'Amico)
-Lily Schena (Olean, NY/Olean)
-Molly Stainbrook (Clarence, NY/Clarence)
-Alia Wahban (Oakville, Ontario, Canada/Hillfield Strathallan College)
-Zoey Wolf (Holley, NY/Holley)
-Lina Young (North Collins, NY/North Collins)
 
Softball
-Taylor Carlson (Huntington Beach, CA/Huntington Beach)
-Caroline Courson (Erie, CO/Erie)
-Paris Guzman (Santa Fe Springs, CA/Santa Fe)
-Eileen Hein (Chicago, IL/Loyola Academy)
-Bella Mistretta (Alexandria, VA/Hayfield Secondary)
-Loretta Sorochty (Batavia, NY/Notre Dame)
-Brielle Wark (East Amherst, NY/Williamsville East)
 
Men's Swimming & Diving
-Jordan Annlee (Henrietta, NY/Rush-Henrietta)
-Michael Blitzer (New York, NY/The Smith School)
-Sean Killian (Kenmore, NY/St. Joseph's Collegiate Institution)
-Uros Stojic (Niš, Serbia/Prva niška gimnazija Stevan Sremac)
-Keagen Winkky (Horseheads, NY/Horseheads)
 
Women's Swimming & Diving
-Kyra Harry (Gaborone, Botswana/Enko Botho)
-Mariam Kiragu (Gaborone, Botswana/Legae Academy)
-Abigail Klein (Lancaster, PA/Lancaster Catholic)
-Anna Muscatiello (Glenville, NY/Scotia-Glenville)
-Elizabeth Share (Macedon, NY/Palmyra-Macedon)
-Alexandra Simmons (Danbury, CT/Danbury)
 
Men's Tennis
-Ricardo Alvarez Janik (La Orotava, Spain/Colegio Casa Azul)
-Matthew Bittel (Wellsville, NY/Wellsville)
-Breece Erickson (Goshen, IN/Bethany Christian)
-Josh Erickson (Falconer, NY/Falconer)
-Mark Ungurian (Chornomorsk, Ukraine/School #6)
-Anlun Zwerver (Koog Aan De Zaan, The Netherlands/Blaise Pascal College)
 
Women's Tennis
-Becca Epping (Mitchell, IN/Bedford North Lawrence)
-Rylee Greggains (Taberg, NY/Camden)
-Claire Lander (Rochester, NY/Churchville-Chili)
-Allison Windisch (Pittsford, NY/Sutherland)
 
Women's Volleyball
-Julia Abbott (Binghamton, NY/Binghamton)
-Cara Bratthauar (Chambersburg, PA/Chambersburg Area)
-Norah Galvin (Lake Placid, NY/Lake Placid)
-Catherina Krause (Pflugerville, TX/Hendrickson)
-Madalynn McGowan (Corona, CA/Norco)
-Abigail Omelan (Tomball, TX/Tomball Memorial)
-Carleigh Santavy (Commerce, MI/Walled Lake Northern)
-Delaney Sims (Bogart, GA/George Walton Academy)
-Jade Wolfer (Nunda, NY/Keshequa)
 
Western Equestrian
-Aaliyah Anthony (Ringgold, PA/Punxsutawney Area)
-Keira Hanschman (Chicago, IL/Cary-Grove Community)
-Harlie Jones (Farmersville, NY/Cuba-Rushford)
-Abigail Omelan (Tomball, TX/Tomball Memorial)
-Samantha Smit (Columbiana, OH/Ursuline)
-Megan Wilson (Youngstown, OH/Ursuline)