Bridgewater, NJ - Wagner College women's track & field team member Ruth-Ann Chambers and men's basketball team member Javier Ezquerra were named Northeast Conference (NEC) 2025 NEC Female and Male Team Student-Athlete of the Year Nominees, announced by the conference on Wednesday morning.
Chambers represented the Seahawks at the 2025 NCAA Track & Field East Regionals in Jacksonville, FL in late May.
Chambers qualified for the NCAA Regional after finishing the 400m Hurdles at the Bison Relays in mid-April with a personal-best time of 58.77. While at the East Regionals, Chambers finished with a time of 59.36, finishing 38th in the event.
The Kingston, Jamaica native accomplished a three-peat at the 2025 NEC Outdoor Championships, bringing home the gold in the 100m dash, the 100m Hurdles, and the 400m Hurdles while helping the Seahawks' 4x100m relay team to a silver and the 4x400m relay team to a bronze. Chambers earned the conference's Most Valuable Performer at the Championships meet.
At the 2025 NEC Indoor Championships, Chambers placed first in the 60m dash, 60m Hurdles, 500m dash, and was a part of the first place 4x400m relay squad.
Chambers led Wagner's women's track & field teams to conference titles during both the 2024-25 indoor season and the 2025 outdoor season.
Ezquerra was named to the NEC's All-Conference Defensive Team in the awards inaugural year, alongside backcourt running mate Zaire Williams. The Seahawks were the only team to place two student-athletes on the conference's All-Defensive Team.
Ezquerra spearheaded a Head Coach Donald Copeland defense that allowed a program-best 60.4 points per game, which ranked as the fourth-best scoring defense in the nation throughout the 2024-25 Division I collegiate basketball season.
The San Juan, Puerto Rico native was one of two Seahawks to appear in all 30 games, and the only member of roster to make a start in all 30 games.
The IMG Academy prospect averaged 7.1 points per game on 34.7 minutes of game time. Ezquerra concluded his senior season averaging an NEC-best 4.6 assists per game and an NEC-best AST/TO ratio of 2.5.
After four seasons on Grymes Hill, Ezquerra finished his collegiate career with tenth-most assists in Wagner College men's basketball program history with 398 assists.
Each full-member school of the NEC had one female and one male representative selected to win the 2025 Student-Athlete of the Year, as the winner will be announced at noon on Wednesday, June 4 on the conference's social media sites.
