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2024-25 Men's Track & Field Roster

Eddie Bedient

  • Position Throws
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown West Seneca, NY
  • Highschool West Seneca West Senior High
  • Major Mechanical Engineering Technology

Biography

2022-23:
  • Competed at eight events during indoor season, including taking part in the shot put at Liberty League Indoor Championships. 
BEFORE RIT:
  • Team captain at West Seneca West Senior High School in 2021-22.
  • Two-time team MVP.
  • Fifth in Section VI in shot put in 2022.
  • Sixth in Section VI weight throw in 2022.
PERSONAL:
  • Full name: Edmund Mason Bedient
  • Son of Sara and Ed.
  • Born in Buffalo, N.Y.
  • Started competing in seventh grade as a way to get better at football, ended up loving it.
  • Best advice: "Get up." His coach would tell him and his teammates this so much that it became their catchphrase and was on their jerseys.
  • Best favorite athletic-related moment: Setting a personal best and and finishing fifth at team championships his junior year after having a "terrible" two weeks of practice.
  • Hobbies: Watching sports, especially football, soccer, baseball, and F1.
  • Has volunteered for his local elementary school PTA, church events, and the West Seneca Rotary.
  • Favorite pro team: New York Yankees.
  • Favorite athletes: Olympian Ryan Crouser and F1 driver Max Verstappen.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

    Throws
    5'11"
  • 2024-25Junior

    Throws
    6'0"