Tommy Kreider Honored with SUNYAC's Dr. Sam Molnar Award
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - New Paltz's baseball student-athlete Tommy Kreider is the recipient of the 2025 SUNYAC Dr. Sam Molnar award. This award is nominated and voted on by the member institutions and is presented annually to a senior athlete with the best combination of academic and athletic ability with a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.30.
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. He is a Chi Alpha Sigma National Honor Society inductee and was the 2024 SUNY Division III Baseball Scholar Athlete of the Year and 2024 SUNYAC Baseball Scholar Athlete of the Year.
On the field, Kreider was a two-time ABCA/Rawlings All-American and a two-time D3Baseball.com 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 the 2025 SUNYAC Bob Wallace Player of the Year (another first in program history) and was the 2024 SUNYAC Tournament MVP. In 2025, 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 baseball program. This season, Kreider set single season program records in runs (63), which beat his own record set in 2024 with 62 in four less games played, doubles (19), tying the total he set last season, and stolen bases (37), destroying the formally held record of 26.
This award is named after the late Dr. Sam Molnar, who was the Director of Athletics at Potsdam for over thirty years. He also coached various sports during this period. He served as SUNYAC President during the 1962-63 and 1963-64 years. Click here to see past winners.
