By: Bill Morgal, sports information director
Gallery: (3-2-2025) 2025 PSAC M-IT&F Championships (Day 2)
The Shippensburg University men's indoor track & field team won eight events, including both relays, and totaled 24 individual scoring performances to win the 2025 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Indoor Track & Field Championship on Sunday, extending its streak to 14 consecutive league titles in action at Lehigh University's Rauch Fieldhouse.
Shippensburg (167 points) scored in 14-of-17 events to post a 45.4-point victory over East Stroudsburg – the Warriors (121.6 points) finished second in the 4x400-meter relay to edge third-place Slippery Rock (118 points). A five-way tie for sixth place in the high jump created some unusual point totals for ESU, Kutztown and Seton Hill.
The Raiders received contributions from all event groups but were particularly boosted by their distance squad, which scored 94 points from just five events (22 points in the 800, 21 points in both the mile and the 5K, 20 points in the 3K and 10 points from the distance medley relay).
Tommy Crum Jr. earned the 2025 PSAC Indoor Championships Most Valuable Men's Athlete honor by being the top individual point scorer at the meet. Crum won the mile and the 3K on Sunday and also contributed to Saturday's distance medley relay victory – netting a total of 22.5 points.
The mile was the first distance event of the day and it featured Crum holding off a strong charge from IUP's Mike Formica to win by .24 seconds with a time of 4:18.98.
Ian Sherlock took third in 4:20.10, and
Ryan Wolfe ran fourth in 4:21.70. It is the first time since Slippery Rock in 2015 that the same school finished with three of the league's Top 4 milers.
It was Crum's championships debut in the mile while it was Sherlock's third consecutive All-PSAC finish in the event (he was the runner-up in each of the last two seasons). Wolfe scored for the first time in the event. SU has now won the mile 12 times in league history; no other school has won it more than three times.
About 90 minutes later,
Chase Hensinger took center stage in the 800 meters and posted a wire-to-wire victory with a time of 1:54.75 that is just .13 seconds off his personal best. Hensinger became the fifth Raider in history to win the indoor 800, joining
Drew Dailey (2020, 2023, 2024), Austin Padmore (2018), Tom Kehl (2012, 2013) and Kenrick Marsh (2004). It is his third straight scoring effort after placing third last year and fifth in 2023.
Sherlock completed a tough double with an All-PSAC second-place finish of 1:55.65 – using smart tactics to pass runners on the outside entering the final 200 meters and hold off the oncoming charge. It was Sherlock's PSAC Championships debut in the 800 and he was just a hundredth of a second off his PR.
Speaking of fractions of seconds,
Jackson Gutekunst impressed in his league debut in the 800 by taking fifth place by two thousandths of a second (.002). His time of 1:57.271 was just enough to put him past Seton Hill's Kaden Crump (1:57.274).
In the meet's penultimate race, Crum battled teammate
Garrett Quinan in the 3K's final two laps and used his foot speed to kick his way to back-to-back titles, defending his crown with a time of 8:31.37. Quinan finished second in 8:33.19; he was fourth in the event last season.
Wolfe completed an incredible triple by finishing the 3K seventh with a time of 8:40.14. He joins Formica as the only two athletes in the league over the last six seasons (possibly longer) to score in the mile, 3K and 5K in the same meet.
While the distance squad had many deserved stars, perhaps the brightest beacon of the entire weekend came from sprinter
Quinton Townsend. After a promising start to his career in the 2023 indoor season, Townsend went down with an injury late in the 2023 outdoor campaign that caused him to moss the postseason and the entire 2024 indoor season. Townsend continued to work through recovery and rehabilitation, and his hard work culminated with a memorable Sunday.
It began with a group effort in the 400 meters, as he paced three Raiders with a fourth-place time of 49.77 seconds – a converted best that slots him No. 9 all-time in school history.
Robbie Hrabosky II ran fifth in 49.84 seconds, while
Jak Kearney took eighth in 50.01 seconds. It was the second time scoring in the event for Townsend (third in 2023) and Kearney (second last season) and the first time for Hrabosky II, who was 15th last season.
One hour later, Townsend pulled off an uncommon feat by winning the 200 meters out of the first of the two finals heats. Townsend zoomed around the track in 22.17 seconds, which was .04 seconds faster than Kutztown's Daron Haggans from the second heat. It is his second scoring performance (he placed eighth in 2023) and puts him alongside fellow Raider 200-meter champions
Eric Kirk (2022), Dru Adighibe (2016), Matt Kujawski (2013, 2014) and Jamal James (2006, 2007).
What's arguably even more impressive is that Townsend had not run a 200-meter dash all season until Valentine's Day weekend at Liberty. He ran 22.59 seconds at Liberty, 22.38 seconds last weekend at Bucknell, and finished Sunday as the conference champion. His previous career best of 21.99 seconds came on a banked track in Boston two years ago.
Townsend,
Jae Galloway, Kearney and Hrabosky II put a bow on the meet by winning the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:21.39. Galloway was clocked with a 49.86-second split, the third-fastest in the entire field, while Hrabosky II's anchor leg held off hard charges from ESU's Tyler Boone, Lock Haven's Ryan Miller and others.
Graduate
Mason Boyd joined Raider alumnus Danny Meyer '17 as the only athletes in PSAC history to finish as a four-time All-PSAC performer in the indoor multi. Boyd was unable to hold off the inspired charge of Lock Haven's Matthew Muthler and finished second with a score of 5,172 points that was just 30 converted points off his lifetime best. Muthler earned Outstanding Field Athlete honors by breaking Boyd's conference record with a victorious score of 5,266 points that slotted him seventh on the national performance list.
Boyd opened Sunday with a 60-meter hurdle time of 8.79 seconds but could not establish his customary rhythm in the fault, clearing just 13 feet, 11 ¼ inches (4.25 meters). His 1,000-meter time was 2:49.54. Overall, Boyd finishes as a two-time heptathlon champion (2023 and 2024) after debuting with a third-place finish in 2022. Meyer finished third from 2014-16 and was the 2017 runner-up.
In the 60-meter hurdles,
Bernard Bell III and
Jeovaughni Daniel achieved All-PSAC performances by finishing in second and third place respectively. Bell III was edged by just .02 seconds by defending champion Matthew Crow of Slippery Rock; his time of 8.09 seconds was just .01 seconds off his personal best. Daniel crossed the finish line in 8.14 seconds – just .02 seconds off his personal best. It is Bell's second straight scoring performance; he was fourth last year, and Daniel's first scoring performance.
Elsewhere in the field,
Donovan Kitchen landed an enormous PR on his sixth and final attempt in the shot put that moved him from eighth place into fifth. Kitchen's NCAA provisional mark of 54 feet, 2 inches (16.51 meters) ranks him No. 6 all-time in school history and stands as a new lifetime best of more than a foot (old PR was 52 feet, 10 inches [16.10 meters]). It is his first scoring performance after posting a ninth-place finish last season.
Shippensburg has now won 17 of the 23 PSAC Men's Indoor Track & Field Championships in history, including 14 consecutive conference titles dating back through 2011.
Results
60
12.
Jae Galloway 7.01
13.
Lavar Jackson 7.03
Gabriel Lewis DNF
200
1.
Quinton Townsend 22.17 (22.17p) (No. 9 all-time at SU)
11.
Jae Galloway 22.47
13.
Lavar Jackson 22.61
20.
Travis Wilk 22.98
23.
Logan Rodkey 23.93
400
4.
Quinton Townsend 49.77 (49.99p) (No. 9 all-time at SU)
5.
Robbie Hrabosky II 49.84 (49.97p)
8.
Jak Kearney 50.01 (50.16p)
15.
James Jaisingh 51.21
800
1.
Chase Hensinger 1:54.75
2.
Ian Sherlock 1:55.65
5.
Jackson Gutekunst 1:57.28
Mile
1.
Tommy Crum Jr. 4:18.74
3.
Ian Sherlock 4:20.10
4.
Ryan Wolfe 4:21.70
3K
1.
Tommy Crum Jr. 8:31.37
2.
Garrett Quinan 8:33.19
7.
Ryan Wolfe 8:40.14
9.
Ramon Urena 8:42.26
11.
Aiden Gonder 8:47.05
12.
Brennan Wellock 8:47.36
5K
1.
Garrett Quinan 15:21.74
2.
Ryan Wolfe 15:23.20
6.
Aiden Gonder 15:35.95
11.
Brennan Wellock 15:44.47
60H
2.
Bernard Bell III 8.09 (8.31p)
3.
Jeovaughni Daniel 8.14 (8.20p)
11.
Josef Book 8.53
4x4
1.
Quinton Townsend,
Jae Galloway,
Jak Kearney,
Robbie Hrabosky II 3:21.39
Distance Medley Relay
1.
Tommy Crum Jr.,
Logan Rodkey,
Chase Hensinger,
Ian Sherlock 10:14.77
High
T13.
Michael Kadziela 6' 2 ¼" (1.89m)
Pole Vault
T6.
Joe Ryan 14' 3 ¼" (4.35m)
Long Jump
1.
Jak Kearney 23' 11 ½" (7.30m) (NCAA 'P') (No. 5 all-time at SU)
Triple
11.
Jabrie Gaymon 45' 0 ½" (13.73m)
Shot
5.
Donovan Kitchen 54' 2" (16.51m) (NCAA 'P') (No. 6 all-time at SU)
9.
Gian Greggo 50' 1 ¼" (15.27m)
13.
Colin Daub 47' 0 ¾" (14.34m)
Weight
6.
Gian Greggo 54' 0 ½" (16.47m)
7.
Ridge Crispino 53' 5 ½" (16.29m)
11.
Donovan Kitchen 50' 2 ½" (15.30m)
Heptathlon
2.
Mason Boyd 5172 (5197 w/conversion for 1,000 meters)
10.
Noah Bankert 3997 (4021 w/conversion)
Terrence Steele DNF
