SUNY Potsdam Athletes of the Week ending Feb. 24
POTSDAM, N.Y. (WWTI) – SUNY Potsdam's Athletes of the Week for the Week Ending Feb. 24, 2025, are Freestyle/Individual Medley, Ryan Orcutt, of the Swimming and Diving team and Middle Distance, Emily Yousey, of the Women's Track and Field team.
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Orcutt is a graduate of Columbia High School and is majoring in Biology and Mathematics.
On the final day of the SUNYAC – AMCC Swimming and Diving Championships, Orcutt swam to a second-place finish in the 100 Freestyle preliminaries with a program record time of 46.58. In the A Finals, he finished second in 46.37. He was just .75 seconds from a SUNYAC Championship and earned second-team All-SUNYAC honors.
Yousey is a graduate of Sandy Creek High School and is majoring in Biology.
Yousey had two first-place finishes at the SLU Open on Saturday, setting Potsdam records in both the 400 M with a time of 1:00.05 and the 200 M with a time of 27.53.
The Potsdam Bears' next game will be men's ice hockey on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at Plattsburgh.
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