Albany, NY—The Sage Colleges' department of athletics recently announced the recipients of the department's annual awards. In addition to several honors bestowed for athletic and academic excellence, Sage also selected the Gator of the Year Award for the department's 17 varsity sports for the 2019-2020 year.

Additionally Sage selected the "Fan of the Year", which was bestowed to Sage's Vice President of Student Life, Trish Cellemme for her passion to support Sage's athletic department and the student-athletes.

Director of Athletics Sandy Augstein-Collins noted, "It is an honor to bestow the Fan of the Year award to Trish Cellemme." She added, "Trish has been a staunch supporter of Athletics - she attends multiple sporting events on weeknights and weekends and respects the contributions that Athletics makes to campus life.  Trish's guidance of the Athletics Department is amazing and her involvement in conference level and national level events is outstanding as well."           

The award was bestowed to Cellemme for her passion to support Sage's athletic department and the student-athletes. She has been an avid supporter of the Sage student-athletes and been involved with everything from support at athletic events to helping the program to grow and succeed, while fostering a competitive environment for our student-athletes and staff.