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Teaching her communication disorders and sciences graduate students about aphasia is fundamental, but when speech language pathologist and lecturer Eileen Gilroy aligned with National Aphasia Awareness Month, the class began advocating for people with this misunderstood speech disorder. Her 13 students make presentations, staff tables, provide in-service education and perform outreach on behalf of aphasia awareness in addition to attending classes and working in the College’s Center for Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders clinic. Gilroy reflects proudly on the program’s first graduates last month, then quickly refocuses on the busy summer in store for this class.

SUNY Cortland hosted nearly 450 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers from across New York state on May 30, bringing together a select group of educators on the campus that houses the largest accredited teaching program in the Northeast.

The second annual New York State Master Teacher Program (MTP) Professional Development Conference featured remarks by State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher via teleconference, a keynote talk from a former New York City deputy superintendent and 32 innovative breakout sessions led by Master Teachers across the College’s campus.

“It was an amazing opportunity to see teachers come together and share the work they’ve been doing with one another,” said Dominick Fantacone M.A.T. ’12, the Central New York region coordinator and the statewide chief campus coordinator for the program. “When it comes to teaching, it’s not very often that teachers from across the state get to share with one another.

“What better place to do that than the campus that’s home to the largest public teacher preparation program in the state.”

SUNY Cortland is the largest regional hub for the Master Teacher Program in upstate New York; an indicator of the College’s leadership in cutting-edge teacher education.

Last November, for example, SUNY launched a new Center of Innovation in Education on campus. The center’s five areas of focus include evaluation of instructional methods and outcomes; project-based learning; clinically rich teacher preparation; teacher preparation strategies; and effective communication in science education. Several of those areas relate to the Master Teacher Program.

Launched by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013, the highly selective MTP includes 552 STEM teachers across 10 regions. They are chosen for their classroom effectiveness, a commitment to personal growth and a willingness to mentor new teachers as well as future educators.

With 70 Master Teachers each, SUNY Cortland and Stony Brook University serve as the largest regional sites for the teacher development program.

The College’s participants meet routinely as a group for mini-courses and workshops and pursue individualized development plans in their STEM content areas. They also share what they’ve learned with other working educators and SUNY Cortland student teachers. The overall goal is to give outstanding teachers in math and science an incentive to continue teaching in New York while sharing their methods, experience and insight with fellow teachers.

“Really, the mission of the Master Teacher Program is professional development created by teachers, for teachers,” said Fantacone, whose office is housed in Cornish Hall on the College’s campus. “It’s not a top-down model with administrators telling you what you need to learn and know.

“It’s teachers recognizing what they enjoy, what they would like to explore and then creating professional development from that.”

The 2015 statewide conference, themed “Leading and Learning Together,” included introductions from SUNY Cortland President Erik J. Bitterbaum and MTP Director Josephine Salvador as well as the live video remarks by Zimpher.

“It wasn’t just a pre-recorded message,” Fantacone said. “It was a two-way, back and forth conversation with the chancellor where teachers could ask questions.”

Lucy West, the founder of Metamorphosis Teaching Learning Communities, delivered a conference keynote talk on the coaching capabilities of teachers. A former deputy superintendent of nearly 200 schools and director of mathematics in New York City, West’s work is grounded in a coaching model that aims to resolve teachers’ most pressing concerns.

Of the 552 Master Teachers, approximately 70 percent teach science and 30 percent teach math. More than three-quarters of the entire group teaches at the high school level, with average teaching experience between 10 and 13 years.

“Getting together as a large group is empowering,” Fantacone said.

The conference’s afternoon breakout sessions were hosted in SUNY Cortland’s Education Building, Corey Union and Cornish and VanHoesen halls. The discussion topics ranged from designing a mentor ambassador program to incorporating “gamification” in the classroom to boosting student teacher success.

“All of these workshops came out of the work teachers have been doing within the Master Teacher Program, so that was great to see too,” Fantacone said.

The MTP requires a four-year commitment from its participants to mentor other secondary school teachers and help both prospective educators and new teachers. The award comes with a $60,000 stipend — $15,000 annually over four years.

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Eight students at SUNY Cortland will visit Italy this summer to fine-tune their writing skills in covering the food industry.

The students enrolled in a variety of majors will join Professor John Hartsock, the author of the international award-winning non-fiction book Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, in Perugia to take his course, titled Wine Journalism at the Umbra Institute. His class is offered in partnership with SUNY Fredonia, the campus with the established link to the Italian host institution.

Meanwhile, SUNY Cortland is sending another eight undergraduates from a wide variety of academic majors to southern India to earn credits while helping their professor conduct research on public health at two orphanages. Associate Professor of Health Jena Curtis is working through St. Aloysius College in Mangalore and the Tribal Children’s Home in Kodaikanal to offer this hands-on learning opportunity among those cities’ poorest young citizens.

A third cohort of six undergraduates and one graduate student will arrive in tiny Belize on the eastern coast of Central America to immerse themselves in this country’s very different culture and environment while completing courses toward several different majors. The College’s new ties with the Center for Engaged Learning Abroad (C.E.L.A.) program promises to expand academic diversity in study abroad programs.

What do these three academic programs have in common?

All are new this summer. All are offered through newly developed partnerships with other universities or study abroad organizations. And each contributes to one of the highest numbers ever of SUNY Cortland students participating in summer study abroad: 108 compared to last year’s 102, according to Mary Schlarb, who directs SUNY Cortland’s International Programs Office.

“There’s a trend nationally: more students are participating in the short winter or summer programs rather than the semester-long ones,” she said. “They go for short, one- to four-week programs.”

In 2014, the College committed to join Generation Study Abroad, a nationwide effort to ultimately get thousands more American students to graduate with the international experience necessary for success in a globalized world. Reaching this goal means that by 2019, more than 28 percent of SUNY Cortland’s undergraduate and graduate students will venture outside America’s borders to expand their intellectual horizons.

“To that end, we are working to enrich the number of disciplines represented in our programs through the new C.E.L.A. program, which we first advertised last fall,” Schlarb said. “We’re trying to diversify the population of study abroad students with not just racial and ethnic but academic diversity.”

The C.E.L.A. program opens access to students enrolled in a broad range of disciplines, including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), which traditionally are not well represented in the study abroad cohort.

C.E.L.A. is directed by the College’s Belize international internship coordinator, Nancy Adamson. For this newest program, Adamson places students in courses offered by Belizean instructors, sometimes with international collaborators. The program draws upon the expertise of that country’s universities.

Another recent development, Schlarb noted, is that many SUNY Cortland students are trying summer-long programs offered through the College’s or other SUNY campuses’ partnerships with other universities world-wide.

Also, at the Cortland campus much of the flow of students traveling overseas involves faculty-supervised “applied learning” programs for students, such as the trips led by Hartsock and Curtis, she noted. Traveling to another land with their professor as mentor sometimes encompasses the whole course and other times just the culminating experience.

Internship opportunities, both through the College’s longstanding Belize program as well as its more recent affiliation with Projects Abroad, explains much of the more recent travel.

Through Projects Abroad, this summer six students will work in locations all over the world in developing countries. The hands-on learning programs can be in the areas of teaching, internships, volunteering, conservation, healthcare and sports.

A non-profit internship provider, Projects Abroad prepares students for their internship with language study if needed and provides an onsite coordinator, Schlarb said.

“It began with several students going to Project Abroad on their own, but we are able to partner with the program so that they will get academic credit,” she said. “They will have a faculty mentor here and a supervisor in the host country. Students still can do independent internships and get credit, but this way Projects Abroad helps vet the experience they are getting. Projects Abroad’s knowledge of the host setting and on-the-ground support mitigates risk.”

Meanwhile, the Belize internship project continues to grow in interest with nine summer participants, including John Kriegelstein, a junior majoring in international studies, who is trying his hand at radio and television programming and production at Love TV/Radio; Jonathan Moore, a junior international studies major, who will join Belize Red Cross in the areas of AIDS information awareness and disaster management; and Jenna Mrozinski, a senior community health major, who is assisting with outreach, awareness and training at the Belize Cancer Society.

Certainly the interest in study abroad has grown since the whole process of students reviewing study abroad program descriptions and submitting applications has moved online, Schlarb said.

More than 100 more students than the prior year applied after the process went digital last fall.

Many of the students looked beyond SUNY Cortland for the actual academic program, Schlarb noted. Besides through SUNY Fredonia, the institutions included through Stony Brook University, SUNY Geneseo, University at Albany, Binghamton University, SUNY Brockport, SUNY Geneseo, SUNY Farmingdale, SUNY Oneonta and SUNY Oswego.

“Any SUNY student can go through any SUNY program, and some of our students are going through other programs and students from other colleges are coming through ours,” Schlarb said. “We have all the procedures for registration and transferring credits in place. It’s relatively seamless.”

The trend for students to use established overseas programs reassures that students have enrolled in legitimate, reliable and compatible academic ventures, Schlarb said.

“We know they have been vetted,” she said. “We’re happy for any student to go through any program, whatever meets their academic needs or interests.”

 Scholarships Aid in Overseas Learning Opportunities

This summer, 40 of those 108 students received a SUNY Cortland scholarship to offset the cost of their academic work in another country.

Ten of the students earned the Uschald Study Abroad Scholarship, created in 1991 in the name of Willi A. Uschald, professor emeritus of foreign languages and director emeritus of international programs at SUNY Cortland. Uschald Scholarships are open to students accepted to a study abroad program who are U.S. citizens. Summer 2015 awardees received between $500 and $750.

The awardees and their programs are as follows:

Three students will study in Mangalore, India, with the India: Research in Public Health class:

• Chelsea Dimyan, a senior physical education major from New Fairfield, Conn.;
• Carolyn Encarnacion, a sophomore chemistry major from Bronx, N.Y.; and,
• Gabrielle Mastrogiovanni, a senior community health major from Rochester, N.Y. 

Two students will complete internships in Belize:

• John Kriegelstein, a junior international studies major from Seneca Falls, N.Y.; and,
• Jonathan Moore, a junior international studies major from Syracuse, N.Y. 

Two students will study in the Umbra Institute program offered in Perugia, Italy through SUNY Fredonia:

• Krystal Vega, a senior communications studies major from New York, N.Y.; and,
• Emily Wheeler, a junior communication studies major from Syracuse, N.Y. 

The remaining students will pursue academic work as follows: 

• Jahtayshia Davis, a senior African American studies major from Brooklyn, N.Y., will participate in SUNY Cortland’s Summer in Ghana program;
• Shanice Green, a senior childhood education major from Valley Stream, N.Y., will take part in a program in Australia called Summer: Australian Education in the Outback and Tropical Coast; and,
• Ivy Senke Starowicz, a sophomore childhood education major from Manlius, N.Y., will experience a winter/summer program in Belize with the C.E.L.A Center for Engaged Learning Abroad.      

Thirty recipients were awarded Overseas Academic Program (OAP) scholarships, reserved for students accepted in a study abroad program. The scholarship is for amounts between $200 and $1,000 for summer recipients.

Four summer 2015 OAP scholarship recipients will study in Mangalore, India, with the India: Research in Public Health class:

• Laura Hill, a senior exercise science major from East Islip, N.Y.;
• Meghan McGovern, a junior sociology major from Manlius, N.Y.;
• Melissa McKeveny, a senior exercise science major from Holbrook, N.Y.; and,
• Amanda Sibbitts, a junior biomedical science major from Homer, N.Y. 

Three scholarship recipients will complete internships through the Projects Abroad Program:

• Kadeeja Fredankey, a junior biomedical Science major from Brooklyn, N.Y., in Bolivia;
• Nicole Mattia, a sophomore speech and hearing science major from Kings Park, N.Y., in Thailand; and,
• Brooke Stevens, a junior psychology major from Manorville, N.Y., in Jamaica.

Three scholarship recipients will pursue different programs offered through SUNY Brockport:

• Devin Cerise, a junior history major from Garden City, N.Y., for a summer internship in Dublin;
• Melissa Vasquez, a junior psychology major from Westbury, N.Y., to document the culture of Western Europe; and,
• Gabrielle Zaccour, a junior early childhood/childhood education major from Brockport, N.Y., to experience the Food and Culture of Athens, Greece.

Two scholarship recipients will participate in SUNY Cortland’s Summer in Ghana program:

• Beesanne Kurzum, a sophomore sociology/anthropology major from Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; and,
• Alexandra Walker, a junior political science major from Speonk, N.Y.

Two scholarship recipients will take part in a program in Belize with the C.E.L.A Center for Engaged Learning Abroad:

• Allyson Baraban, a junior biology major from Melville, N.Y.; and,
• Bethanny Jolly, a sophomore biology major from Geneva, N.Y.

Two awardees will study in the Rome, Italy program offered through Stony Brook University:

• Marie-Marcelle Benoit, a sophomore childhood education major from West Hempstead, N.Y.; and,
• Cormier, a sophomore communications studies major from Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

 Two awardees will study at the Universidad Veritas in Costa Rica:

• Danielle Diaz, a junior business economics major from Mount Sinai, N.Y; and,
• Abigail Merz, a freshman outdoor recreation major from Rochester, N.Y.                                                     

Two awardees will study at University College Cork in Ireland:

• Caitlyn Caswell, a junior speech and hearing science major from Clifton Park, N.Y.; and,
• Megan Sullivan, a junior business economics major from Seaford, N.Y.              

Two awardees will study the Italian language and civilization of Rome, Altomonte and Florence, Italy, through a program offered through SUNY Oswego:

• Samantha DiTaranto, a senior psychology major from Farmingdale, N.Y.; and,
• Teresa Quartironi, a senior communication studies major from New Rochelle, N.Y.

 Two students will study in the Umbra Institute program offered in Perugia, Italy through SUNY Fredonia:

• Morrill Makenzie, a junior communications studies major from Ontario, N.Y.; and,
• Alyssa Ackerman, a junior communications studies major from Apalachin, N.Y.                                             

Two scholarship recipients will pursue different programs offered through the University at Albany:

• Christina Losier, a junior communications studies major from New City, N.Y., for study at Regent's University School of Fashion and Design in London, England; and,
• Kaitlyn Altamura, a junior English as second language major from Honeoye Falls, N.Y., for study in the AIP Language Institute Summer Studies program in Valencia, Spain.

 The remaining awardees will pursue academic work as follows:

• Kelli Grossmann, a sophomore art major from Miller Place, N.Y., for study in the Ireland: Dingle Summer Art program;
• Nicole Guzman, a junior early childhood/childhood education major from Yorktown Heights, N.Y., for study in the six-week Spain: Spanish Language Culture course offered in Malaga and Madrid, Spain, through Binghamton University;
• Iva Markicevic, a junior adolescence education: English major from Cortland, N.Y., for study in the Summer Spanish Language and Culture Studies at Cuzco, Peru program offered through SUNY Geneseo; and,
• Jenna Mrozinski, a senior community health major from Tappan, N.Y., for a summer internship in Belize.

The top Division III athletics program in New York state belongs to SUNY Cortland, based on the final standings of the 2014-15 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup competition.

During a year that produced two team titles (baseball and women’s lacrosse) and a pair of individual national champions (Joe Giaramita in wrestling and Maddy Scozzie in women’s gymnastics), the College finished in 12th place among the approximately 450 eligible NCAA Division III programs competing nationally. The Red Dragons finished ahead of 11 other New York institutions that placed in the top 100.

The College also maintained its spot among a select Division III group nationally. SUNY Cortland remains one of only five schools nationwide to place in the top 25 each of the 20 years the standings have been compiled on the Division III level. The other schools to hold that distinction are Amherst College (Mass.), Emory University (Ga.), Middlebury College (Vt.) and Williams College (Mass.).

“This most recent announcement is another testament to the extraordinary year it has been for SUNY Cortland and our talented student-athletes,” said College President Erik J. Bitterbaum. “To be one of only five (Division III) institutions nationwide in the Top 25 every year signifies consistent excellence — an honor that should leave all Red Dragons past and present feeling proud.”

SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher also extended her congratulations.

“Congratulations to the entire athletics department, especially the women’s lacrosse and baseball teams of SUNY Cortland for winning their first ever national championships in their respective sports,” said Chancellor Zimpher. “The College’s efforts are great examples of the strength and commitment of our SUNY athletes both on the field and in the classroom.”

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), Learfield Sports and USA Today present the award annually to recognize overall excellence among collegiate athletic programs.

The standings are compiled based on schools’ national finishes in different sports. Teams earn points by qualifying for the NCAA postseason and additional points for advancing in the playoffs. The national champion in each sport earns 100 points.

The Red Dragons finished with a score of 716 points. Williams won its 18th Directors’ Cup with 1,053 points, followed by Johns Hopkins (Md.) (1,016.75), MIT (961), Washington (Mo.) (944) and Amherst (918.50) in the top five.

SUNY Cortland had 12 teams finish in the top 40 in 2014-15 NCAA postseason competitions, including four top-10 finishes. In addition to the women’s lacrosse and baseball teams each claiming their first national titles, men’s lacrosse tied for fifth after advancing to the national quarterfinals and the men’s soccer team tied for ninth after advancing to the “Sweet 16” round.

Wrestling placed 13th, women’s indoor track and field tied for 18th, men’s cross country finished 19th and men’s indoor track and field tied for 21st. In addition, men’s outdoor track and field tied for 24th, women’s cross country placed 26th, softball tied for 33rd and women’s outdoor track and field finished 39th. The women’s gymnastics team finished fifth nationally at the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) Division III Championships, but that result is not figured in the Directors’ Cup standings since it is not an NCAA-sponsored championship.

Other New York state institutions in the top 100 included: Ithaca (30th), Geneseo (32nd), Oneonta (40th), New York University (42nd), St. Lawrence (46th), Skidmore (55th), Rochester Institute of Technology (70th), St. John Fisher (74th), Plattsburgh (93rd), Hamilton (95th) and Nazareth (97th).

The College’s 2014-15 finish marked the 12th time in the past 15 years that SUNY Cortland placed in the top 15. The Red Dragons tied for second in 1997-98, third in 2006-07 and fifth in 2005-06 and 2008-09.

Two SUNY Cortland students featured in this year’s Best of SUNY student art exhibition will take pride in having their work displayed in the state’s capital.

Patricia Endy and Giotto Zampogna will have their work on display at the New York State Museum on 222 Madison Avenue in Albany, N.Y., through Sept. 6. The Best of SUNY show features 84 works of art selected out of more than 300 submissions by individual art departments across SUNY’s campuses. The works include drawings, paintings, photography, sculpture and digitally produced pieces.

Endy, a studio art major from Manlius, N.Y., has entered “Under the Moss: Yielding to Transformation,” a 2014 sculpture made of cast iron, baling wire and larch.

Zampogna, a senior bachelor of fine arts major from Groton, N.Y., has exhibited two 2014 works, a clay piece “Waterfall,” pictured above left, and another ceramic work “Waterfall 2.”

A list of the student artists featured in the exhibition and photos from the exhibit are available online.

SUNY Cortland is strengthening its commitment to U.S. military veterans and their dependents by ensuring that tuition will be paid for, regardless of where the former soldier or eligible family member lives.

All schools in the 64-campus SUNY system currently cover tuition for veterans or dependents living in New York, as well as for all veterans living out of state.

But by participating in the Yellow Ribbon Program, SUNY Cortland will ensure that dependents who live outside New York state can take full advantage of educational benefits transferred by former military members.

“New York state has been ahead of the curve by guaranteeing in-state tuition to all veterans,” said Karen Gallagher, director of the College’s Financial Aid Office. “But one of the instances where the Yellow Ribbon Program definitely could help is an out-of-state dependent using the benefit of a veteran.”

Currently, the full cost of in-state SUNY tuition is provided for all veterans, regardless of their state of residence, through the New York State Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In-state tuition – currently at $6,470 – is fully covered by the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Because all veterans are charged the in-state tuition rate, regardless of residency, veterans from outside the state are fully covered as well.

Out-of-state veteran dependents, however, are not currently charged the in-state rate. That more than doubles the cost of annual SUNY tuition to $16,320.

The Yellow Ribbon Program makes additional education funds available to veterans without an additional charge to their GI Bill entitlement. Institutions voluntarily join the program and they choose the amount of funding that will be contributed.

SUNY Cortland will cover up to $5,200 per student if it is needed.

“This is terrific news, both for the College and for our brave servicemen and women across the country,” said SUNY Cortland President Erik J. Bitterbaum. “They deserve access to an affordable, high-quality education and we’re honored to provide that at SUNY Cortland.”

Six other SUNY institutions participated in the Yellow Ribbon Program during the 2014-15 academic year.

Gallagher said the program gives the College more visibility among veterans across the country.

“It gets SUNY Cortland’s name out there so that maybe veterans who hadn’t thought about us will now consider us,” Gallagher said.

Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 GI Bill have spent 36 months in active duty after Sept. 10, 2001, or they have been honorably discharged for a service-related disability and served 30 continuous days after Sept. 10, 2001. They also can be dependents eligible for a transfer of entitlement.

“All of our veterans should be proud of their service,” Gallagher said. “I’m hoping this can be just another step in doing more for them.”

A baseball-themed dining event put on by SUNY Cortland’s Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) scored big in a national awards contest for campus food providers.

ASC’s “Play Ball” event, held March 5 in Neubig Hall, earned a silver medal in the 2015 National Association of College and University Food Services (NACFUS) Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards Contest for its quality and creativity — the College’s 10th food service award since 2006.

“We were thrilled with the results,” said Bill McNamara, director of Dining Services for ASC. “The Neubig dining team worked hard in the planning and execution and I’m very proud of their work.

“Any time you can be nationally recognized while earning positive customer feedback, you know you hit a home run.”

The event’s timing was aligned with the beginning of Major League Baseball’s spring training schedule, with everything from the food menu to the lobby set-up in Neubig Hall planned to perfection. Each dining station was transformed into a representation of a different baseball stadium, with team regalia serving as decoration.

Food choices represented different teams: lobster rolls and New England clam chowder for the Boston Red Sox; Old Bay sausage and buffalo crab macaroni and cheese for the Baltimore Orioles; steak sandwiches, fried pickles and garlic fries for the New York Yankees; Cuban sandwiches for the Tampa Bay Rays; and so on.

ASC workers played the role of roaming vendors by handing out peanuts, Cracker Jacks and Big League Chew to guests in the dining hall. Create-your-own nachos and soft pretzel stations also were on display. Before or after their meals, dining guests could try their hand at bean bag and milk bottle toss games in the Neubig Hall lobby area.

Attendance was an all-time high for a themed meal, with 2,529 guests, and customer feedback was overwhelmingly positive, McNamara said.

“I think it’s safe to say staff and students alike were eager and excited to think ahead to spring after a long, hard winter,” he said.

Elaborate special event dinners are prepared annually in Neubig Hall at no extra cost to students. McNamara said the meals are a way to take students “out of the box” and to thank the SUNY Cortland community.

ASC submitted a digital scrapbook for the NACUFS competition. Judging was based on four criteria: menu selection, theme development, marketing of the event and overall impressions.

NACUFS has more than 1,000 institutional and industry members. Based in Okemos, Mich., the national association is dedicated to promoting quality food service on college and university campuses.

Founded more than 50 years ago, ASC is SUNY Cortland’s campus-based, not-for-profit dining service provider. The organization also manages vending, campus stores, student ID cards and other essential services for the campus community.

The SUNY Cortland women’s lacrosse team capped a storybook season with the program’s first-ever NCAA title, knocking off previously top-ranked Trinity College, 17-6, in the Division III national championship game at PPL Park in Chester, Pa.

The Red Dragons, playing in their first-ever NCAA title game, had lost to the Bantams in national semifinal games in each of the past three seasons. Led by first-year head coach Kelly Lickert-Orr, SUNY Cortland finished the 2015 campaign 22-1 and tied the school record for wins in a season.

The College ran out to an 8-2 halftime lead in the championship and never trailed in the game.

Sophomore Kristen Ohberg and freshman Hannah Elmer each notched four goals and an assist to lead the Red Dragons in the scoring column. Junior Tara Monaghan netted three goals and senior Emma Hayes-Hurley ’15, who was named the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player, recorded two goals and two assists. Senior Marilyn Farrell ’15 tallied two goals and an assist and junior Nicole Bello also scored twice.

Sophomore goalie Jaclyn Beshlian stopped eight shots in between the pipes. She was joined on the Final Four All-Tournament Team by Elmer, Hayes-Hurley, Monaghan and Ohberg.

The win marked SUNY Cortland’s 19th in a row and punctuated an impressive NCAA Tournament run that saw the team win four of five games by at least seven goals. After falling behind 4-0 to Middlebury College in the national semifinals, the Red Dragons came storming back for a 19-12 win.

The 2015 campaign also saw the women’s lacrosse team win its 17th straight State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) title and push its home winning streak to 67 games. The program previously played in the 1984 United States Women’s Lacrosse Association (USWLA) national title game in 1984.

The national championship is the College’s first team title since the men’s lacrosse squad won an NCAA crown in 2009. The SUNY Cortland Athletics Department now boasts 24 national team titles in its history, including 18 NCAA championships.

There was nothing unlucky about the number 13 for the SUNY Cortland baseball team.

The nationally top-ranked Red Dragons, making a 13th trip to the NCAA Division III World Series, captured the first national championship in program history with a dramatic ninth-inning comeback Wednesday afternoon.

The title, which gives SUNY Cortland 25 team national championships, caps a historic season of success on the diamond and comes just three days after the College’s women’s lacrosse team won an NCAA crown for the first time.

The win also marks the first time the College has captured two NCAA championships in the same spring sports season and the first time since the fall of 1993 that two SUNY Cortland teams earned national titles in the same sports season. The College’s men’s cross country and men’s lacrosse teams won NCAA crowns in the same calendar year, in 2008-09.

A 6-2 win over Wisconsin-La Crosse clinched the trophy in the best-of-3 series that took place in Grand Chute, Wis. The Red Dragons finished 45-4 on the season, including 9-0 in NCAA tournament play — winning every game they played at the New York Regional and the World Series.

The team also set a program record for wins in a season.

The decisive game proved to be the most dramatic of the eight-team World Series for SUNY Cortland. The team trailed 2-1 in the 9th inning before loading the bases with no outs. Sophomore Nick Hart delivered a two-run single to give SUNY Cortland the lead and the team tacked on three insurance runs to produce the final score.

The Red Dragons were playing the first-ever Division III best-of-3 championship series. They knocked off UW-L, 11-3, in Game 1 by piling on six runs late. Prior to that, they won a four-team, double-elimination pool by outscoring their opponents 33-9 over three games.

Junior Conrad Ziemendorf was named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Division III All-Tournament Team and was joined by teammates junior Seth Lamando, sophomore Matt Michalski, junior Fabio Ricci and junior Brandon Serio.

Dominant pitching and a balanced offensive attack provided separation for the Red Dragons all season. Fifteen positional players started at least 10 games and all of them batted above .300 for the season. The team’s pitching staff posted a team earned run average below 3.00.

Several Red Dragons earned postseason accolades, led by Serio, named State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Pitcher of the Year, a second-team Division III All-American by the web site D3baseball.com and a third-team All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association, and Ziemendorf, tabbed as SUNYAC Player of the Year and an honorable mention All-American by D3baseball.com.

Head coach Joe Brown was selected as the D3baseball.com New York Region Coach of the Year for the second straight year as well as SUNYAC Coach of the Year honors for the fifth time overall. He led the Red Dragons to a 17-1 SUNYAC regular-season mark and the league’s postseason tournament crown. His Cortland squads have won 14 SUNYAC titles in his 16 years as head coach.

The College made its 23rd consecutive NCAA tournament appearance this season, the longest active streak nationally in Division III. SUNY Cortland’s 13 trips to the Division III World Series also are tops nationally since the division adopted an eight-team field in 1991.

Twice, the Red Dragons finished as high as second nationally — in 2005 and 2010.