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Melita

Bennett Melita

  • Award
    Athlete of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/17/2025
  • Sport
    Men's Track & Field
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Bennett Melita has been named as a Pioneer Athlete of the Week for the week of February 17th, 2025.

Melita had an excellent outing at this past weekend's DIII Elite Meet held in Rochester, NY. The sophomore star participated in the one mile during the meet, running extremely well and managing to notch a final mile time of 4:18:78. His rapid pace led him to finish milliseconds away from the school record time which was set by Mitch Marlow in 2020. Marlow's mile record is a 4:18:46, meaning that Melita is mere steps away from accomplishing the feat. In addition to his near record-breaking performance, Melita also managed to finish fourth in a stacked field featuring 42 of Division III's top competition. Melita was the only sophomore in the top five, with the rest of the feature finishers being comprised of three seniors and one junior. 


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
2/27/2012 Sylvester Owusu-Afriyie Men's Track & Field
2/27/2012 Jess Ciraulo Women's Track & Field
2/20/2012 Vanessa Maines Women's Ice Hockey
2/20/2012 George Schultz Men's Basketball
2/13/2012 Chris Jeffers Men's Basketball
2/13/2012 Lauren DeLude Women's Track & Field
2/6/2012 Megan Myers Women's Ice Hockey
2/6/2012 Jeff Ward Men's Basketball
1/30/2012 Mi'chael White Men's Track & Field
1/30/2012 Tim Coffman Men's Ice Hockey
1/30/2012 Meghan Fiore Women's Basketball
1/23/2012 Evan Smith Men's Ice Hockey
1/23/2012 Sarah Cifonelli Women's Swim & Dive
1/16/2012 Joe Pruckno Men's Track & Field
1/16/2012 Lauren DeLude Women's Track & Field
1/9/2012 Jon Gaffney Men's Ice Hockey
1/9/2012 Jennifer Hamel Women's Ice Hockey
12/12/2011 Lauren DeLude Women's Track & Field
12/12/2011 Ridge Garbutt Men's Ice Hockey
12/5/2011 Meghan Fiore Women's Basketball
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