YORK, Pa. - Five multi-year Athlete of the Year award winners, including Wayne Langbein and Patrick Deas of Gallaudet University, Byron Pugh and Luke Campbell of Salisbury University and Tim Hartung of York College of Pa., highlight the list of exceptional athletes named to the Capital Athletic Conference's Silver Anniversary Men's Track & Field Team. Seven programs earned berths on the celebratory squad, including 13 by Salisbury. Entering its 25th year of varsity competition, the CAC selected a Silver Anniversary Team in 19 championship sports, primarily based on season-ending conference awards as voted by the conference coaches. Each Silver Anniversary Team will feature 25 former or current standouts. Men's and women's indoor track & field, which became a CAC championship sport in 2012, was combined with men's and women's outdoor track & field. The Silver Anniversary Golf Team has just eight members because the sport was added to the CAC championships list just seven years ago. The teams will be announced early in the regular-season for its respective sport. Each Silver Anniversary Team honoree will receive a commemorative gift from the conference, and many will be recognized by their institution/alma mater at some time during the academic year.
The University of Mary Washington, a charter member of the CAC, led the conference with 153 current and former student-athletes on the Silver Anniversary Teams, including 40 in men's and women's tennis combined. Salisbury University, which joined the CAC in the 1994-95 athletic season, was second with 122 Silver Anniversary Team honorees. CAC charter members York College of Pa. (60) and St. Mary's College of Md. (35) were next in line for most Silver Anniversary Team honorees.
The CAC was organized as a six-team affiliation in 1989 and began championship competition with the winter sports during the 1990-91 season. Membership changes in the last decade ultimately created a 10-team conference that has become one of the strongest in NCAA Division III.
CAC teams have won 18 national team championships, and dozens of other teams have finished in among the top four in NCAA Division III competition. In 2013-14, the CAC advanced more than 25 teams to post-season competition. Four CAC athletic programs finished among the Top 60 in the final Learfield Cup – the only conference in the Middle Atlantic Region to accomplish that feat. One team won a national championship (Salisbury University women's lacrosse) and three others played in the national championship game. Nineteen CAC teams won at least one game in NCAA Tournament competition and 10 advanced to at least the NCAA Sweet 16. In the last two years, CAC student-athletes have combined to win six individual national championships at NCAA
swimming or track & field competitions. The CAC student-athletes collected a record 11 Capital One Academic All-America awards in 2013-14 as well as an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and the Josten's Award, recognizing a Division III women's basketball player for her achievements on the court, in the classroom and contributions to the community.
In the classroom, the CAC boasts 81 Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, including one Academic All-American of the Year award winner, 12 NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship winners, five NCAA Elite 89 award winners,
two Honda year-end award winners and a Josten's Award winner in women's basketball. The CAC also features an annual Academic Honor Roll that recently honored nearly 1,200 students for their academic achievements. Thousands of other student-athletes have received Player of the Year, All-America or All-Region recognition in their respective sports.
In the early years of the conference, Lanbein (1992-93), Pugh (1994-95) and Deas (1996-97) each won the CAC Men's Track & Field Athlete of the Year award in consecutive seasons. Hartung won the first CAC Indoor Athlete of the
Year award in 2012, then added the outdoor title in 2013. Campbell was the co-Indoor Athlete of the Year winner in 2014 with Hartung, then was selected by the conference coaches as the outright winner in the 2014 outdoor season. Campbell, a four-time NCAA Division III champion hurdler, is one of two members of the Men's Track & Field Silver Anniversary Team still competing in the CAC. Still just a junior for the Sea Gulls, Campbell will be joined at the 2015 CAC Indoor Championships (Feb. 21 at Christopher Newport University) and 2015 CAC Outdoor Championships (May 2-3 at York College of Pa.) by senior teammate
Dylan Burkett. Hartung, one of three York graduates on the CAC Men's Track & Field Silver Anniversary Team, and Salisbury graduate
Tristan Gilbert were also members of the CAC Silver Anniversary Men's Cross Country Team. Additionally, 2010 Salisbury graduate and Men's Track & Field Silver Anniversary Team honoree Brandon Fugett is now an assistant coach at York College.
CAC Men's Track & Field Silver Anniversary Team Honorees
Name Last Year of Competition Institution
Larry Beavers 2010 Wesley College
Cory Beebe 2010 Salisbury University
Bobby Bergin 2003 University of Mary Washington
Quentin Briscoe 2010 Salisbury University
Matt Bundy 2013 Wesley College
Dylan Burkett Active Salisbury University
Luke Campbell Active Salisbury University
Patrick Deas 1998 Gallaudet University
Jay Drenner 2012 Salisbury University
Paul Drumgoole 1996 Catholic University of America
Sean Duggan 2004 Catholic University of America
Brandon Fugett 2010 Salisbury University
Tristan Gilbert 2006 Salisbury University
Tim Hartung 2014 York College of Pa.
Tony Hill 1999 Salisbury University
Justin Johnson 2004 Salisbury University
Tim Johnson 2002 York College of Pa.
Wayne Langbein 1993 Gallaudet University
Chauncey Manson 2012 Frostburg State University
Robert Powell 1998 York College of Pa.
Byron Pugh 1995 Salisbury University
Brien Roberts 2000 University of Mary Washington
Delannie Spriggs 2010 Salisbury University
Marcus Tines 2006 Salisbury University
Derrick Washington 2006 Salisbury University