ANNAPOLIS, Md.— The Naval Academy Athletic Association announced its major athletic award winners this afternoon with Landon Kruer of the baseball team winning the NAAA Sword for Men, Emily Tannenbaum from the women's tennis team winning the Vice Admiral Lawrence Sword for Women and Blake Horvath from the football team winning the Thompson Trophy Cup.  Jacob Douberly from the men's swimming & diving team and Alexandra Wercinski of the women's cross country / track & field team won the Coaches' Calvert Awards.

The NAAA Sword for Men is presented to that man of the graduating class who is considered by the Association's Athletic Council to have personally excelled in men's athletics during his years of varsity competition.

Kruer's four-year journey at the Naval Academy saw him go from a walk-on catcher to the most decorated relief pitcher in Patriot League baseball history and the NCAA's active career saves leader. 

Becoming the shutdown closer during his four years for the Mids, Kruer tallied numerous league and national accolades while racking up both the Navy and Patriot League records for career saves and pacing the league in saves all four seasons. Earning a pair of 2022 Freshman All-America honors during his rookie campaign after transitioning to the mound, the right-hander posted seven saves while tallying a 1.89 ERA over 16 appearances.

Racking up the second-most saves in a season in program history with nine during the 2023 and 2024 campaigns, Kruer garnered second-team all-league honors in 2023 and set career highs in 2024 with 36 innings pitched and 33 strikeouts enroute to becoming Navy's all-time saves leader. The 2024 season also saw him close out both semifinal wins over Holy Cross to advance to the program's first Patriot League Championship Series since 2019.

His senior season in 2025 then found Kruer on the NCBWA National Stopper of the Year Watch List again as he tallied another nine saves while notching a 1.97 ERA over 19 appearances with 32 strikeouts in 32 innings, picking up All-Patriot League First Team laurels, establishing a new league record for career saves and helping Navy claim the Star Series over Army for the first time since 2021.

For his career, the Sellersburg, Ind., native finished with a record-setting 34 saves on top of a 3.04 ERA while totaling 104 strikeouts in 112.1 innings and limiting opponents to a .207 batting average, with his 73 career appearances ranking fourth in program history.

Kruer is the first baseball student-athlete to win the Sword, which was first awarded in 1893, since Noah Song in 2019 and the 26th baseball player overall. He is just the fifth student-athlete to win the Sword playing baseball as his only sport.

The Vice Admiral Lawrence Sword for Women is presented to that woman of the graduating class who is considered by the Association's Athletic Council to have personally excelled in women's athletics during her years of varsity competition.

Tannenbaum rewrote the Navy women's tennis record book during her four-year career while leading the program to its first Patriot League title in 2024.

A two-time Patriot League Player of the Year and the league's 2022 Rookie of the Year, Tannenbaum was also awarded the NAAA's Thompson Trophy Cup last year for her efforts.

Garnering First-Team All-Patriot League honors in each of her four seasons, the Commack, N.Y. native holds the Navy program records for career singles wins (119), career doubles wins (94), combined career wins (213), single-season singles wins (33), single-season doubles wins (27), combined single-season wins (60), career No. 1 singles wins (55), single-season No. 1 singles wins (18) and career No. 1 doubles wins (29).

After winning the Patriot League Rookie-of-the-Year award in her debut season, Tannenbaum then took home the league's Player of the Year award in 2023 while finishing as the No. 19-ranked singles player in the Atlantic region.

After helping lead Navy to its first Patriot League Championship in 2024 and finishing at No. 12 in the Atlantic region's singles rankings, Tannenbaum saved her most impressive season for last.

Winning the Patriot League's singles and doubles qualifying tournaments for 2024 ITA Conference Masters Championship and then advancing to the Conference Masters' doubles quarterfinal alongside Parvathi Shanker, Tannenbaum then went a combined 10-1 in the Patriot League regular-season slate before earning her second Patriot League Player of the Year award and claiming the league's Doubles Team-of-the-Year award alongside Olivia Fermo.

Tallying a pair of 13-match singles winning streaks in her career that rank second in program history, Tannenbaum finishes with a 119-36 career singles record and a 94-32 career doubles mark. Tannenbaum also holds the league record for Patriot League Player of the Week awards won in a career (12) and a season (five).

Tannenbaum is the first women's tennis student-athlete to win the Sword and is just the third female to win the Thompson Cup and the Sword joining Deborah Williams from swimming & diving (1989 Thompson, 1990 Sword) and Cheryl Dolyniuk, who participated in rowing, swimming & diving and volleyball (won both in 1983).  The Vice Admiral Lawrence Sword for Women has been awarded since 1980, but women's tennis did not become a varsity sport until the 2009-10 school year.

The Thompson Trophy Cup is presented to that midshipman, male or female, who has done the most during the year to promote athletics at the Naval Academy.

Horvath helped lead Navy to a memorable season as the Mids became just the sixth team in school history to win 10 games (10-3). Navy also won the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy with dominating performances over Air Force (34-7) and Army (31-13) and defeated Oklahoma 21-20 in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.

Horvath threw a school-record tying 13 touchdown passes on the year, tying Ricky Dobbs who threw 13 in 2010.
 
He accounted for four touchdowns in Navy's 31-13 victory over Army, rushing for 196 yards and 2 TDs on 24 carries, while throwing for 107 yards and 2 TDs.  He scored the game-tying touchdown against Oklahoma on a school-record 95-yard touchdown run and then gave Navy the lead on a 6-yard scoring run with 4:34 remaining.
 
Horvath, who finished with 1,246 yards rushing, is the first Navy player to rush for 1,000 yards in a season since 2019 when Perry rushed for 2,017 yards. He is the first Navy quarterback to surpass 1,000 passing yards in a season since 2019 when Perry threw for 1,084 yards.
 
Horvath's 1,353 passing yards are the most by a Navy player since Will Worth threw for 1,397 yards in 2016. Additionally, he is the third quarterback in school history to rush and pass for more than 1,200 yards in the same season, joining Keenan Reynolds in 2015 (1,203 pass, 1,373 rush) and Chris McCoy in 1997 (1,203 pass, 1,370 rush).

Horvath finished as the No. 9 graded runner (all positions, min. 150 att.) by Pro Football Focus. 

Horvath, who was named a team captain for the 2025 season, was named along with classmate snipe Eli Heidenreich as two of the Top 100 returning players in college football next year by College Football Network.

Horvath is the first football student-athlete to win the award since John Marshall in 2023 and the 87th football player overall to win the Thompson since it was first awarded in 1893.

The Coaches' Calvert Award is presented to a graduating letterwinner (one male, one female) who made a significant contribution to the success of varsity athletics while a midshipman.  The recipients must exemplify outstanding qualities of athletic leadership, athletic loyalty and acceptable academic efforts.

Douberly rose from being an unrecruited walk-on for the men's swimming team to serving as the team's captain and being an integral part of the lineup at four-straight Patriot League Championship meets.

Douberly qualified for either the consolation (7) or championship (5) final in all 12 of his individual events at the Patriot League Championship.  His best finish was a fourth-place showing in the 400 individual medley at the 2024 meet when the Mids won their third title in his first three seasons.

An operations research major, Douberly graduates with a 3.80 cumulative grade-point average and ranked 96th in his class on the Overall Order of Merit.  He earned academic honors in all eight semesters, is a four-time member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, was named to the Patriot League All-Academic Team in 2024 and '25 and was an College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree as a senior. 

Douberly is the fourth men's swimming student-athlete to win the Coaches' Calvert Award, which was first awarded in 1973, and the second-straight swimmer to win the award as Richie Trentalange was honored in 2024.

Wercinski was a four-year member of the women's cross country and track & field teams that won a combined 10 Stars and eight Patriot League Team Championships.

Individually, she was an eight-time All-Patriot League honoree, claiming first-team distinction in cross country as a senior, while also earning first-team honors in the 4x800m indoor relay in 2023 and 2024 and the distance medley relay in 2024 and 2025. Additionally, Wercinski earned second-team accolades during the outdoor season in the 4x800m relay in 2023, 2024, and 2025.

She recorded a fifth-place finish in the 5,000m with a time of 17:28.57 at the 2024 ECAC Championship, earning her first career ECAC All-East recognition.

Wercinski was Navy's top performer as a senior in cross country. She was the top Midshipmen finisher in all six varsity cross country meets in 2024.
In the classroom, Wercinski finished her career with a 3.57 GPA in chemistry. The Virginia, Minn., native was an Academic All-Patriot League selection in cross country during her senior year, while also claiming the honor during the 2025 outdoor season.

Wercinski is the 10th women's cross country / track & field athlete to win the Calvert since it was first awarded in 1980. She is the second consecutive women's cross country / track & field athlete to win the award as McKenna Brophy earned the honor in 2024.