2024-25 Men's Basketball Roster

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1 Cam Polak

  • Position Guard
  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 185
  • Year Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown West Homestead, Pa.
  • High School Steel Valley

Biography

AWARDS AND HONORS
  • All-PSAC West First-Team – 2025
  • PSAC West Athlete of the Week – 1.13.25
  • AD Honor Roll – Spring 2024
2024-25 | REDSHIRT JUNIOR
  • Voted to All-PSAC West First-Team
  • Started all 30 games
  • Averaged 18.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 34.3 minutes per game
  • Finished sixth in PSAC in scoring and fifth in minutes
  • Ranked fifth in league in three-point percentage (.352) and sixth in three-pointers per game (2.70)
  • Led PSAC and finished eighth in NCAA Division II in free-throw percentage (.912)
  • Named PSAC West Athlete of the Week (Week #8 / Jan. 13)
  • Tallied 27 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and two steals at Kutztown
  • Recorded 35 points, five rebounds and three assists against Clarion
  • Collected 17 points, 12 rebounds and two assists at Shepherd in semifinals of PSAC Tournament
2023-24 | JUNIOR
  • Medical redshirt
  • Appeared in one game as a reserve
2022-23 | SOPHOMORE
  • Started all 30 games
  • Averaged 13.7 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 31.1 minutes per game
  • Ranked third in PSAC in three-pointers per game (2.43)
  • Posted 13 points, five rebounds and six assists versus Clarion
  • Tallied 21 points, five rebounds and two assists at IUP
  • Finished with 24 points, three rebounds and two assists against Seton Hill in first round of PSAC Tournament
2021-22 | FRESHMAN
  • Played at West Chester in NCAA Division II
  • Was coached by Damien Blair
  • Team finished 17-12 overall
  • Appeared in all 29 games with two starts
  • Averaged 5.6 points and 1.5 rebounds in 12.9 minutes per game
  • Registered 23 points, four rebounds and two assists at Seton Hill
  • Posted 19 points, two rebounds and one assist at Kutztown
  • Played eight minutes at Millersville in quarterfinals of PSAC Tournament
2020-21 | FRESHMAN*
  • Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The asterisk next to the 2020-21 season indicates the NCAA’s decision to grant an extra year of eligibility for student-athletes in light of the COVID-19 pandemic; the student-athlete’s year of eligibility did not “advance” from 2020-21 to 2021-22 due to this NCAA ruling.

HIGH SCHOOL
  • Graduated from Steel Valley in 2020
  • Was coached by Dale Chapman
  • Set all-time school record with 1,718 points
  • Earned first-team all-section three times
  • Selected to Class 3A Fab Five twice
PERSONAL
  • Son of Jamie and Jackie Polak
  • Has one brother
  • Father played basketball at Clarion (1993-97) and was an All-PSAC West Second-Team selection as a senior
  • Majoring in finance with a minor in personal financial planning

CAREER HIGHS

NCAA CAREER STATISTICS

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 1

    2022-23Sophomore

    Guard
    6'2" 185 lbs
    1
  • 1

    2023-24Junior

    Guard
    6'2" 185 lbs
    1
  • 1

    2024-25Redshirt Junior

    Guard
    6'2" 185 lbs
    1