12/01/2025
SUNY Cortland’s intercollegiate athletics program currently sits in first place in the 2025-26 Dr. Patrick R. Damore State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Commissioner’s Cup standings following the fall season. The competition recognizes overall sports excellence within the conference.
Cortland has an average score of 9.39 points, followed by New Paltz at 7.25 and Buffalo State at 6.40 in the 10-team standings. Commissioner’s Cup points are awarded based on each team’s finish in the SUNYAC standings, both during the regular season and in league postseason tournaments, when applicable.
Cortland won four SUNYAC titles in the fall — in men’s and women’s cross country, women’s soccer and women’s volleyball. The Red Dragons also placed second in SUNYAC postseason tournaments in field hockey and women’s tennis after third-place regular-season finishes, and the men’s soccer team won the SUNYAC regular season title and tied for third in the conference tournament.
Seven of Cortland’s nine fall sports compete in the SUNYAC. Of the two that do not, the football team won the Empire 8 Conference title, while the women’s golf team will compete at the Northeast Women’s Golf Conference championship in the spring.
Cortland qualified for NCAA Division III team tournaments in men’s soccer, women’s soccer, women’s volleyball and football, with the men’s soccer team advancing to the “Sweet 16” to tie for ninth place nationally.
Cortland has won the SUNYAC Commissioner’s Cup each of the last two years and 19 times overall since the competition originated in the 1996-97 season.