LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University track & field program took home four major awards when the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced its 2024-25 indoor track & field postseason awards Wednesday, with the SRU coaching staff, Anna Igims, Jianna Long and Logan Anderson all being recognized.
 
The Rock earned three of the four major awards on the women's side and one of the awards on the men's side, winning Coaching Staff of the Year, Track Athlete of the Year (Igims) and Freshman of the Year (Long) on the women's side and sweeping the rookie awards by winning Freshman of the Year (Anderson) on the men's side as well.
 
The coaching staff, led by head coach Bill Jordan, was named the PSAC Women's Coaching Staff of the Year for the second straight year after The Rock claimed the 2025 indoor title by winning the meet by the largest scoring margin since 2012. SRU scored in all but one event at the PSAC Championships and won titles in seven of the 17 events contested at the conference meet.
 
Jordan was also named earlier this spring as the Atlantic Region Women's Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, while assistant coach Bobby Over was also named as the Women's Assistant Coach of the Year in the Atlantic Region. Jordan, Over, who coaches the distance runners, and assistant coach Tabitha Bemis, who coaches the jumpers and multi-event athletes, are the three full-time coaches on The Rock staff.

The rest of the staff, many of which are part time or volunteer positions, includes Nathan Shadeck (sprints, hurdles and relays), Judy Geist (throws), Jim Geist (throws), Vanere Maynard (sprints), Andrew Maxwell (distance), Joshua Gose (graduate assistant - throws), Taye Lynch (graduate assistant - jumps) and full-time certified athletic trainer Jordan Kissner.
 
Igims, a graduate student from Pittsburgh, repeats as the PSAC Indoor Track Athlete of the Year after also winning the honor in 2024. She ran her streak of unbeaten races at the PSAC indoor meet to seven straight with three more titles this year, winning the distance medley relay, mile and 3,000-meter run. Igims posted the 15th-best time in the country this winter in the 5,000-meter run and was the only female track & field athlete from the PSAC to qualify for nationals. She earned All-Region honors in four different events, putting up the No. 1 time in the Atlantic Region in the mile (4:55), 3,000-meter run (9:52) and 5,000-meter run (16:36) while anchoring the fastest distance medley relay in the region.
 
In addition to the PSAC major honor, Igims was also named the Atlantic Region Female Track Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA earlier this spring. She has now been named the PSAC and Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year in both cross country and indoor track & field during the 2024-25 academic year.
 
Long, a freshman sprinter from Akron, Pennsylvania, was named the Female Freshman of the Year after having a breakout first collegiate season. She clocked the fastest time in the PSAC in the 400-meter run in her very first collegiate race and ranked No. 1 in the league nearly all season before capping the year by winning the PSAC title in the event. She posted a season-best and NCAA provisional time of 56.60 seconds in the 400m while also helping SRU to the fourth-best 4x400-meter relay time in the league at 3:56.91.
 
Anderson, a freshman multi-event athlete from Edinboro, Pennsylvania, was named the Male Freshman of the Year after have an outstanding debut season in numerous events. He posted the third-best heptathlon score in the Atlantic Region with an NCAA provisional mark of 4,986 points to pick up All-Region honors in his first collegiate season. Anderson also qualified for the PSAC Championships in the long jump, 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles and finished the year ranked No. 6 in the PSAC in the long jump (7.01m) and 10th in the 60-meter hurdles (8.36 seconds).
 
Slippery Rock won its eighth PSAC indoor title on the women's side to tie for the most among all schools in the conference, while the men's squad finished third in the team standings to mark the 14th consecutive year with a top three finish at the indoor meet.
 
The women's major awards were rounded out by Shannon Harnett from East Stroudsburg as the Field Athlete of the Year. Shippensburg took home the men's Coaching Staff of the Year award, while Kutztown sprinter Michael Fellin was named the Male Track Athlete of the Year and ESU thrower Cole Gorham was named the Male Field Athlete of the Year.
 
2024-25 PSAC Indoor Track & Field Major Awards
Mal Track Athlete of the Year: Michael Fellin, Kutztown
Male Field Athlete of the Year: Cole Gorham, East Stroudsburg
Male Freshman of the Year: Logan Anderson, Slippery Rock
Men's Coaching Staff of the Year: Shippensburg
Female Track Athlete of the Year: Anna Igims, Slippery Rock
Female Field Athlete of the Year: Shannon Harnett, East Stroudsburg
Female Freshman of the Year: Jianna Long, Slippery Rock
Women's Coaching Staff of the Year: Slippery Rock
 



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