GENESEO, N.Y. - The Empire 8 announced their weekly honors on Monday afternoon, and SUNY Geneseo earned a total of four honors from the conference. Ryan Hagan and Ann Brennan took home Runner of the Week honors for cross country, Dylan Thody earned Offensive Player of the Week for men's soccer, and Sibby Lowe rounded out the honors as Athlete of the Week from women's swimming and diving.

In a race featuring 12 nationally ranked teams, Ryan Hagan placed second overall out of 269 student-athletes at the Connecticut College Invite on Saturday with a blistering time of 23:53.67 over the 8,000-meter course (4:48.4-mile rate). Hagan's second place finish led the Knights to a third-place finish overall, beating out No. 4 NYU by four points. It is Hagan's third E8 weekly accolade of 2025.

In a race featuring 16 nationally ranked teams, including the top five teams in the country, Ann Brennan placed 23rd overall out of 271 student-athletes at the Connecticut College Invite on Saturday. Brennan's time of 21:24.09 over the 6,000-meter course (5:44.4-mile rate) led the Knights to a ninth-place team finish. It is Brennan's third E8 weekly accolade of 2025.

Thody played a key role this week for the Knights as they remained undefeated in Empire 8 play. Thody assisted on the game-winning goal in the closing minutes of a 1-0 win over Nazareth on Wednesday, then scored the second goal of Geneseo's 2-2 tie at Alfred on Saturday.

Lowe led Geneseo to season-opening wins over Brockport, Penn St. Behrend, and Grove City at the Knights quad meet on Saturday. Lowe won a total of four events at the meet, picking up individual wins in the 50-yard freestyle (24.36), and the 100-yard butterfly (58.67). In the relays, she was on the winning 200-yard medley relay team who posted a time of 1:46.30, and the 200-yard freestyle relay team who took first at 1:37.59.

Full press release from the Empire 8.