NEW ORLEANS – All-America honors from the 2022 NCAA Division III Men's Outdoor Track & Field season were announced Tuesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) and the announcement featured Suffolk's own Matyas Csiki-Fejer.
Athletes from USTFCCCA member institutions earned All-America recognition by finishing in the top-8 of their respective individual events and as part of a relay team at the 2022 NCAA DIII Outdoor Track & Field Championships over the weekend.
A native of Manchester, Missouri, Csiki-Fejer put together a podium finish in the 5k with a time of 14:30.07, good for third in the 19-runner field at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. The long-distance runner burst out to the top four by the first split and kept that pace throughout, never falling out of the top six, to collect All-America status.
Csiki-Fejer, the first-ever Suffolk male student-athlete to make the outdoor national field, became the first to capture All-America distinction as well. He now owns a pair of All-America nods, one for cross country achieved by a 35th-place performance at nationals this fall in addition to his outdoor accolade. The senior is the second Ram to have multiple All-American honors on his resume, first since Suffolk Hall of Famer Jess Ferreira '09 earned a pair of NFCA All-America accolades of her efforts on the softball diamond in 2006 and 2009.
Over the course of Csiki-Fejer's career, he has competed on the national stage four times, twice on the cross country course, once in indoor and outdoor track & field, respectively. This year alone he completed the trifecta, competing in all three fields and garnering All-America in two, cross country and outdoor track & field. He was the first male Suffolk student-athlete to compete at NCAAs in each of those sports in the University's history.
Csiki-Fejer graduated with a dual degree in political science and legal studies as the one of, if not the most decorated Ram, with a half dozen all-region nods, a quartet of conference's top runner or track athlete of the year nods and numerous conference individual championships and all-league distinctions.