Men’s cross country and track senior Kyle Urban and volleyball junior Kalia Reisma have been named the Milk for Life Canisius Student-Athletes of the Month for September, the athletic department announced on Tuesday.
A native of Alden, N.Y., Urban has led the way for the Griffs in their first three races of the season. Urban has turned in two top 20 finishes this season, highlighted by a second-place finish at the Little Three Championships on Sept. 6. Urban also paced the Griffs with a 15th-place finish at the National Catholic Invitational in South Bend, Ind., Sept. 19.
A computer science major at Canisius, Urban earned MAAC All-Academic honors for the 2024 season.
Reisma, a native of Fort Myers, Fla., has notched a hitting efficiency of .300-or-more on six occasions for the Griffs this season, including a career-high .833 mark in a sweep of Manhattan on Sept. 27th.
Majoring in biology, Reisma was a 2024 MAAC All-Academic Team honoree while also having been named to the Dean’s List three times during her academic career at Canisius.
The spring 2025 semester saw all 20 of Canisius’ varsity intercollegiate athletic programs posted a cumulative grade point average of 3.10 or higher. A total of 18 programs recorded a cumulative GPA of 3.25 or higher, while the school’s 401 active student-athletes combined to post a cumulative GPA of 3.46 for the term.
The previous semester also saw a total of 64 student-athletes earn a perfect 4.0 grade point average. The 64 student-athletes highlighted a group of 354 student-athletes to post a term GPA of 3.0 or higher, representing 88.0 percent of the University’s student-athlete population.
In May, the NCAA announced that all 20 Canisius varsity athletic programs were in good academic standing while 13 teams posted perfect single-year scores in the latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) statistics.
In all, 19 of Canisius’ 20 varsity intercollegiate athletic teams scored 970 or better out of a possible 1,000 points.
