Amsterdam native Sturdivant competing for UAlbany at NCAA East Preliminary Championships | The Daily Gazette
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May 27, 2021
Amsterdam High School graduate Omahri Sturdivant is competing Friday at the NCAA East Preliminary Championships. (Photo courtesy Jay Bendlin/UAlbany Athletics)
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All those years ago, Omahri Sturdivant joined the new indoor track and field team at Amsterdam High School, and didn’t mean for the sport to become much more than a chance to keep in shape and improve his speed ahead of a lacrosse season he intended to play the following spring.
Nearly a decade later, and now a graduate student at the University at Albany, Sturdivant is thrilled and surprised with how much more dedicated to the sport he became.
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