EAST STROUDSBURG – East Stroudsburg University junior Negus Graham has been named the PSAC Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year for his performance this spring, the conference announced Tuesday.

Graham (East Stroudsburg/East Stroudsburg South) was an All-American in the 400m dash and ran an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 46.64 seconds of the prelims of the PSAC Championships. He was previously named the PSAC Men's Track Athlete of the Meet, winning the conference title in the 400 and running the first lap on the Warriors' championship 4x400m relay team.

Graham joins teammate Chris Reddick as a PSAC award winner this year. Reddick was the Men's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year after setting ESU and PSAC records in the 200m with the second-fastest qualifying time (21.24) in Division II.

The junior is ESU's first men's athlete to earn All-America honors both indoors and outdoors in the same event, and the first All-American in a sprint event (non-hurdles) in school history.

Graham ran four brilliant times in the 400 on his way to his PSAC title and All-America status. He clocked his school record-time of 46.64 in the PSAC prelims, then ran 47.43 to win the conference championship by .19 seconds. At the NCAA Championships in Charlotte, N.C., Graham qualified for the final in 46.87 seconds and posted a lap of 47.08 to finish eighth in one of the fastest fields in Division II history.

In the 200, he was sixth in the PSAC final in 21.99 after running 21.55 in the prelims. He finished third in both the 200 and 400 during the indoor season and anchored the PSAC champion 4x400m relay squad.

Graham was an integral member of the Warriors' record-setting 4x200 and 4x400m relays throughout the outdoor season. The quartet of Graham, seniors Reddick and Andrew McCloskey and sophomore Ian Melhorn ran a time of 3:14.29 twice during the year, including the PSAC championship – ESU's first in the mile relay since 1987.

ESU's relay season also featured a pair of record-setting times at the prestigious Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The Warriors won the Wetzler/Pennsylvania 4x400 for the first time since 1985 with a time of 3:15.39, and broke the 34-year old school record in the 4x200 by more than two seconds. The time of 1:25.37 was the fastest among Division II schools at the relay carnival. Graham ran splits of 47.7 in the 400 and 21.4 in the 200.

All told, Graham holds both school records in the 400, along with a place on the record-setting indoor and outdoor 4x200 and 4x400 relays.

Nafee Harris of IUP, the NCAA champion in the long jump, was named the Men's Field Athlete of the Year. Millersville's Jeff Robinson was the Men's Freshman of the Year.

On the women's side, NCAA 5000m champion Neely Spence (Shippensburg) and four-time All-American Maddy Outman (IUP) were the track and field Athletes of the Year, respectively. Kutztown's April Doyle was named the Women's Freshman of the Year.

Both Coach of the Year awards went to Dave Osanitsch, who guided Shippensburg to a pair of PSAC championships and the women to a ninth-place finish in Division II.