SUNY New Paltz Athletics

2009: Earned the team’s MVP award… Second-Team All-SUNYAC… SUNYAC Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week (9/8/09)... Won the 5K against Mount St. Mary, topping the 17-person field with a time of 16:17… Bested a 94-person field at the Vassar Invitational with a 20:25 performance in the 8K… Captured his third consecutive individual victory at the Bard Invitational, winning the 8K by more than 10 seconds in 25:55… Posted the eighth-fastest 8K time among non-NCAA Division I harriers at the Paul Short Invitational (26:18)… Turned in a program-record standard of 25:29.4 when he crossed the finish line 16th at the Albany Invitational… Became the sixth-ever All-SUNYAC honoree to hail from New Paltz when he tied for 14th in the 8K at the SUNYAC Championships (26:22.16)… Placed 66th out of 264 runners in the 8K at the NCAA regional meet (26:48.0).

2008: Earned team's MVP award... At the Vassar Invitational, finished seventh in the 6K with at time of  21:13... Finished 19th at the Brockport 5K Challenge with a time of 16:52... Registered a mark of 26:56 at the SUNY Geneseo 8K Invitational, taking 39th overall... Was New Paltz's top finisher at SUNYACs, placing 27th overall in the 8K with a then-personal-best 26:33... Covered the course in 27:29 at NCAA Regionals in the 8K.

2007: Competed on the men's soccer team.

Prior to NP: 2007 graduate of Curtis High School.

Other: Son of George and Joann Gentsch.