BURNSVILLE, Minn. – After collecting two NSIC championship titles at the recent conference meet, Augustana's own Ryan Hartman has been named the NSIC Outdoor Men's Track Athlete of the Year, league officials announced Thursday.
 
He becomes the fourth men's track and field athlete in program history to earn the conference honor.
 
Hartman has continued to dominant competition in multiple events in his last season at Augustana. He took home two top finishes in the final day of the NSIC Championship meet, cruising to first in the 1500-meter run in 3:49.24 and first in the 5000-meter run in 14:40.75. He was a member of the Augustana men's distance medley relay that rewrote school history with their win at the Drake Relays, which secured both conference and national weekly honors for their performance.
 
He ran two personal bests in those two events earlier in the season out at the 2025 Bryan Clay Invitational, even going so far as to place fourth overall in the 5000-meter run in a loaded field of athletes from across the country. His times in both the 1500-meter and 5000-meter are seeded in the top 15 nationally this season.
 
Hartman will now head to Pueblo, Colorado for the NCAA DII Outdoor Track and Field Championships from May 22 to 24.