Weiss Honored as Landmark Conference Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Senior Scholar-Athlete
TOWSON, Md. --- Moravian University graduate student sprinter/jumper Kyle Weiss has been honored as the 2026 Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete for Men’s Outdoor Track & Field.
TOWSON, Md. --- Moravian University graduate student sprinter/jumper Kyle Weiss has been honored as the 2026 Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete for Men's Outdoor Track & Field.
The Landmark Conference selects 23 senior scholar athletes each year to recognize the top student-athlete in each sport based on academics and athletics. The honorees must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.20 and are selected by a committee of Landmark Conference officers, athletics directors, senior woman administrators and sports information directors. Chosen at the conclusion of each sport season, the ten spring honorees are being announced this week.
"We haven't seen many athletes like Kyle on campus here," noted Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Jesse Baumann. "Not many can balance three sports, with two of them occurring simultaneously and then still have a successful student-athlete experience. The previous few years there were numerous days when he'd literally go from track practice to lacrosse practices or vice versa. Those kinds of time management skills were why he was able to excel academically and athletically.
"Kyle is a unique person in terms of his passion and work ethic. It's infectious and was unquestionably a big part of our men's success this year. His drive set the tone for our "SJH" group throughout the year, every day of practice and of course at meets. The grit you could literally see on his face to run a low 48 split in the 4x4 at AARTFCs, or his willingness to take on an entirely new event in the long jump highlight his athleticism but more importantly his team-first enthusiasm that was invaluable in our men's team winning the outdoor Landmark title for the first time since before Covid," finished Baumann.
This spring, Weiss helped the Greyhounds the 2026 Landmark Conference Championship as he won the Landmark Conference title in the long jump with a career-best leap of 6.79 meters (22-3.5) to garner Landmark All-Conference First Team honors in an event he had never competed in until this outdoor season. Weiss also made the Second Team with runner-up finishes as part of the Hounds' 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relays. Weiss scored six points in the meet with a third place finish in the 400-meter dash in 49.74 seconds, and he garnered three points for a sixth place in the 200-meter dash in 22.51 seconds to give him a total of 23 points out of Moravian's 221 points.
This season was Weiss's first with the outdoor track & field program as he is a five-sport student-athlete at Moravian. Weiss competed for four years on the men's lacrosse and men's soccer teams and two seasons with the indoor track & field team as an undergraduate before participating in football, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field this year while attending graduate school.
Weiss has been part of three school record relay teams at Moravian – the 4x200 and 4x400 indoors and the 4x200 outdoors with all three records set in 2026. He also made the Landmark All-Conference Second Team indoors in the 4x200 and the Honorable Mention squad in the 4x400 back in February at the Landmark Indoor Championships. The indoor 4x400 relay squad also garnered United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Metro Region honors.
Off the field, Weiss made Moravian's Dean's Honors List six semesters as well as being a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society as an undergraduate. He will be a 11-time member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll over the five sports. Weiss graduated with a bachelor's degree in secondary education and history in May 2025 as he posted a career 3.69 grade point average, and he is working on his master's degree in education with a 4.00 GPA. Weiss has been selected to the College Sports Communicators Men's At-Large Academic All-District Team three times and the CSC Men's Soccer Academic All-District Team three times . He was honored as Moravian's 2025 Blue & Grey Senior Scholar Athlete.
Weiss served as a member of Moravian's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and he was also a member of Moravian's History Club.
Weiss is Moravian's 48th Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete since the conference began in 2007-08 and third in 2025-26, and he is the sixth men's outdoor track & field honoree and first since Peter Gingrich in 2021. The Greyhounds have had a total of 15 student-athletes from the men's cross country and track & field programs honored as Landmark Conference Senior Scholar Athletes.
