Tommy Kreider Honored with Second Straight SUNYAC Baseball Scholar Athlete of the Year Award
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - New Paltz's Tommy Kreider repeats as the SUNYAC Baseball Scholar Athlete of the Year as nominated and voted on by the conference sports information directors.
Kreider was named to the 2025 ABCA/Rawlings fourth team and D3Baseball.com fifth team All-American. He became the first player in New Paltz's program history to be named to three consecutive first team selections, earning a spot on both the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region III first team and D3Baseball.com first team list. He was also the 2025 SUNYAC Bob Wallace Player of the Year, another first in program history. Kreider was named to the first team All-SUNYAC for the third time in his career, also the first in the history of the New Paltz Hawks baseball program. The senior helped lead his team to the No. 1 seed after he set season records in runs scored, doubles, stolen bases. He was the only player for the Hawks to start and appear in 42 of 42 games this spring. Kreider led New Paltz in 11 statistical categories: batting average (.439), OPS (1.206), games played and started, runs scored (63), hits (72), doubles (19), total bases (109), slugging percentage (.665), on-base-percentage (.541), walks (30) and stolen bases (37-for-39). In addition Kreider stood second in both at-bats (164) and triples (3).
Kreider earned a perfect 4.0 in his final semester and graduated with a 3.81 overall GPA as an accounting major at New Paltz.
In order to be eligible for the SUNYAC Scholar Athlete of the Year award student-athletes must prove both academic and athletic excellence by obtaining a minimum 3.30 overall GPA, be a starter or significant reserve for their team, and be at least a sophomore. The SUNYAC Scholar Athlete Award began in 2016-17.
