Nazareth College Athletics

Physical Therapy major... son of Robert and Kristan Tomaka, Vestal, N.Y... returning for his fourth track and field season, Tomaka ran well during the indoor and outdoor track seasons in 2021, highlighted by a fourth-place outdoor finish (8:05.83) in the 4x800-meter relay at the All-Atlantic Regional meet at St. John Fisher on 5/20/21... finished third in the 1,500 (4:14.67) and fourth in the 800 (2:03.77) at the E8 outdoor meet... earned second-team all-conference honors in the 3,000-meter run (9:06.28) during the indoor season... represented Nazareth on the E8 Presidents' List for student-athletes with GPAs of 3.75 and above... helped Nazareth claim its second straight E8 cross country title in the fall of 2021 by placing 12th at the conference meet... personal-best 8k time of 26:45.7 was good for second-team all-conference honors... also finished in 77th place (27:42.7) at the NCAA Niagara regional race at Geneseo...  Tomaka helped Nazareth to the E8 cross country title in the spring of 2021 by placing 10th overall at Houghton 4/9/21... 6k time of 19:48.6 earned him first-team all-conference honors.

2019-20: Tomaka ran well during the 2020 indoor season and was a member of Nazareth's distance medley relay that placed first (10:58.37) at the Empire 8 Indoor Championships at Houghton... also finished third in the mile and fifth in the 3,000-meter run... had career-best times of 2:41.00 in the 1,000-meter run, 4:26.59 in the mile and 9:08.65 in the 3,000-meter run... named Empire 8 Athlete of the Week for 2/24/20... Tomaka ran regularly for the Golden Flyers' cross country team in 2019 and placed 16th at the Empire 8 Conference meet on 11/2/19 at St. John Fisher... 8-kilometer time of 28:06.7 was good for second-team all-conference honors... competed at the NCAA Atlantic Regional meet at St. Lawrence and posted a time of 27:52.8... season-best 8k time of 26:49.1 on 10/5/19 at Houghton's Highlander Invitational was good for 21st place... represented the Golden Flyers on the Empire 8 Presidents' List for student-athletes with GPAs of 3.75 and above.

2018-19: Tomaka finished 36th at the Empire 8 Conference cross country meet at Alfred on 11/10/18 with an 8-kilometer time of 32:49.9... ran 28:05.3 for 8k at Geneseo on 9/29/18... competed for the Golden Flyers' indoor and outdoor track and field teams and finished eighth in the 1,500-meter run (4:12.91) at the Empire 8 outdoor meet... finished 10th in the 3,000-meter run (9:13.67) at he E8 indoor meet...other top times included 4:43.01 in the mile indoors and 16:06.74 in the 5,000-meter run indoors.

Scholastic: a graduate of Vestal Central, Tomaka competed in cross country and track and field there... excelled in the 4x400-meter relay during the indoor track season and earned first-team all-star honors in the Southern Tier Athletic Conference... also earned all-conference honors for the 1,600-meter run... a 12-time scholar-athlete award winner and an AP scholar... recipient of Triple Cities Runners Club Scholarship and an Eagle Scout award winner.