PITMAN, NJ --- Rowan University junior Damitrius Hester (Mahwah, NJ/Mahwah) has been selected as the NJAC's Thomas M. Gerrity Most Outstanding Athlete to highlight the 2026 NJAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field All-Conference Team.
 
Additionally, Rowan sophomore Angel Gonzalez (Magnolia, NJ/Triton) was named Outstanding Track Athlete; Stockton University junior Ahmad Fogg (Egg Harbor Township, NJ/Egg Harbor Township) was named Outstanding Field Athlete; and Rowan freshman David Brown (Edison, NJ/Edison) was named Rookie of the Year. Rowan's coaching staff led by Dustin Dimit was voted the Bill Fritz Coaching Staff of the Year.
 
All-Conference honors were determined by finish at the recent NJAC Outdoor Track & Field Championship and major awards were voted on by the league's nine head coaches.
 
Hester continued an outstanding season in the javelin with one of the premier throws in the country, winning the NJAC title with a career-best heave of 73.38 meters — the best throw in NCAA Division III this season. The mark was hard-earned, as Hester had already pushed his career best to 73.29 meters at the Embry-Riddle meet earlier this year before surpassing it to win the conference title. He is a two-time NJAC Field Athlete of the Week honoree this season.
 
Gonzalez turned in one of the most eye-catching individual performances of the championship meet in the 400 meter hurdles, running a career-best 53.02 seconds in the preliminary round only to obliterate that mark with a 51.26 in the final to claim the NJAC title. His winning time of 51.26 seconds stands as the second-fastest in D3 this season.
 
Fogg earned the conference's top field athlete honor with one of the most versatile performances of the championship meet, competing in three events. He claimed gold in the long jump with a leap of 7.43 meters, which ranks third in NCAA Division III this season, and added a third-place finish in the triple jump with a mark of 13.91 meters that currently ranks 11th in the NCAA Metro Region. He also cleared 1.88 meters in the high jump to place eighth.
 
Brown won the NJAC high jump title with a clearance of 2.09 meters and is one of three Rowan high jumpers ranked in the national top five this year. His season-best 2.14 meters, posted at Widener earlier this season, is tied for third in D3. Brown was also named NJAC Rookie of the Week in Week 4 of the regular season.
 
Rowan's coaching staff — led by Dustin Dimit and including Norm Tate, Eric DuBois, Ryan Gebhardt, Milton Goode, John Oberg, Joseph Kalnas, Jassina Surles, Francis Terry, Miles Voenell, and Soham Kolli — earned the Bill Fritz Coaching Staff of the Year honor after guiding the Profs to their 11th consecutive outdoor team title. Rowan accumulated 319.33 points to win by more than 100 points, collecting 11 gold medals, seven silver medals, and 11 bronze medals at the championship meet. They also mentored three of the four individual major award winners in Hester, Gonzalez, and Brown.
 

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Event	First Team	Second Team	Honorable Mention
100m Dash	Maxim Rychkov TCNJ	Samuel Thomas Ramapo	Eric Foster, Jr. Rowan
200m Dash	Samuel Thomas Ramapo	Madaijoudou Diawara Rowan	Noah Traverso TCNJ
400m Dash	Pratt Charles NJCU	Noah Traverso TCNJ	Marquis Taylor Rowan
800m Run	Dallas Hohney Rowan	Jacob Dinerman Rutgers-Camden	Teddy Wilson Rowan
1500m Run	Kevin Matthews TCNJ	Brandon Chen TCNJ	Ryan Pena Ramapo
5000m Run	Brandon Chen TCNJ	Colin Patterson Rowan	Evan Melito TCNJ
10000m Run	Evan Melito TCNJ	Sean Haggerty TCNJ	Anthony Faust Rowan
110m Hurdles	Jason Agyemang Rowan	Kwaku Nkrumah Rowan	Eric Foster, Jr. Rowan
400m Hurdles	Angel Gonzalez Rowan	Samuel Agbessi Rowan	Nathaniel Adams TCNJ
3000m Steeplechase	Ryan Segalla TCNJ	Nate Kidwell TCNJ	Garrett Walters Rowan
4x100 Relay	Rowan (Masai Byrd, Evan Corcoran, Eli Hendricks, Madaijoudou Diawara)	Ramapo (Wander Dilone, Samuel Thomas, Kevin Ortiz, Darnelsen Romain)	TCNJ (Christopher Eubanks, Maxim Rychkov, Noah Traverso, Tyler Seaton)
4x400 Relay	Rowan (Nicholas Garman, Blaik Slavinski, Samuel Agbessi, Teddy Wilson)	Ramapo (Logan Natale, Jordan Hart, Jaycen Peterson, Christian Iriaka)	TCNJ (Victor Akinboboye, Lebron Rose, Tyler Seaton, Nathaniel Adams)
High Jump	David Brown Rowan	Jayden Deleon Rutgers-Camden	Noah Wampole Rowan
Pole Vault	Ethan Plut Rowan	Tyler Kadezabek TCNJ	Max Owens Rowan
Long Jump	Ahmad Fogg Stockton	Anthony Parker Rowan	Christopher Ross Rowan
Triple Jump	Joshua Justin Rowan	Bryant Nelson Stockton	Ahmad Fogg Stockton
Shot Put	Braden Paulmenn TCNJ	Bryan Alvarez Montclair State	Josh Caudill Rowan
Discus Throw	Javion Payne Rowan	Paris Hamlin Rowan	Shamil Dixon Kean
Hammer Throw	Josh Caudill Rowan	Dyheim Watson Rutgers-Camden	Braden Paulmenn TCNJ
Javelin Throw	Damitrius Hester Rowan	Drue Chauhan Rowan	Dylan Fitzpatrick Rowan
Decathlon	Jayvee Dumas TCNJ	Benjamin Zelasco Ramapo	Walter Pierce Rutgers-Camden