SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Shippensburg University junior Gabriel Lewis was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week on Tuesday afternoon by the league office.
 
Lewis contributed to a historic performance in the 4x100-meter relay on Saturday and also delivered the PSAC's fastest times of the season in both the 100 and 200 meters over the course of two days at George Mason's Dalton Ebanks Invitational.
 
Lewis, Ke'Aune Green, Ni'male Greenwood and Lavar Jackson set the all-time PSAC record in the 4x100-meter relay by running 40.06 seconds, finishing second overall and only trailing NCAA Division I Coppin State (39.76 seconds), and produced a time that is currently sixth on the NCAA Division II performance list.
 
The performance surpasses a conference record that had lasted for 49 years – in 1977, the famed Edinboro quartet of Curtis Pettis, Steve Davis, Howard Hackley and George Crunkleton posted a time of 40.21 seconds. Crunkleton later transferred to Slippery Rock for his final season, when he won national titles in the 100, the 200 and the 4x100-meter relay and helped guide The Rock to the 1979 NCAA Division III national championship.
 
Shippensburg's previous school record was 40.53 seconds, making Saturday's relay all the more impressive considering it was nearly a full half-second ahead of that pace.

Individually, Lewis came within .04 seconds of his school record in the 100 meters, winning that event Saturday with a NCAA-provisional qualifying time of 10.37 seconds that currently ranks 19th on the NCAA Division II national performance list.
 
On Friday night, Lewis finished second in the 200 meters, running a second-place time of 21.20 seconds that is just .02 seconds off the school record. It is a new PR by .08 seconds that moves him into sole possession of second place in school history for the event. 
 
It is the first weekly track award of the outdoor season for the Raiders and the third of Lewis's career.
 
It is SU's first outdoor track athlete of the week award since Lewis was honored last season on April 29. 
 
It is the fifth overall track athlete of the week award for Lewis in his career when including two he earned during the 2026 indoor season.