INDIANAPOLIS – Matyas Csiki-Fejer of the Suffolk men's outdoor track & field championship saw his name appear in the official 2022 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championship Field over the weekend.
For each men's individual event contested, including the heptathlon, the top 20 declared student-athletes were accepted into the competition.
Csiki-Fejer was one of the 20 in the 5000 filed after posting the sixth-best time amongst his DIII counterparts this season clocking in a personal-best 14:09.18 in the event at the Duke Invitational April 8, 2022.
The Manchester, Missouri native, is the first-ever Ram to make the field of the outdoor national event adding to the feat of his extensive resume that he has built over his career. This calendar year alone, he made history multiple times. In the fall, he became the first Suffolk cross country runner – male or female – to capture All-America distinction. This winter, the long-distance runner became the first male Ram to compete at nationals, doing so in the 3000. He was just one place shy of All-America status indoor as well.
Now in the spring, Csiki-Fejer, who already helped Suffolk to a first when the Rams captured the inaugural CCC Men's Outdoor Track & Field Championship April 30, the 2022 CCC Male Track Athlete of the Year is the only conference competitor to qualify.
Csiki-Fejer looks to add more accolades to his personal and the program's growing shelf as he heads to the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio May 26-28. Although he is the first male Suffolk student-athlete to complete the trifecta and compete at all three national championships – cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field – in one calendar, he is the second-ever Ram as Emily Manfra '19, was the first to accomplish the feat as a senior in 2018-19.