Bronx, N.Y. - As the 2024-2025 season begins to wind down, the Fordham University Athletic Department held its 91st annual Block F Awards Dinner in the Rose Hill Gym on Wednesday night to honor Fordham University's student-athletes for their accomplishments during the academic year.
 
Among those honored was women's cross country/track and field grad student Katarina Birimac, who was the recipient of the Hobbs Award as well as being named team MVP for both the cross country and indoor track and field teams.
 
The Claire & Jack Hobbs Memorial Award is presented to the Female Athlete of the Year who has achieved outstanding athletic accomplishments. The award is named in honor of the late Claire and Jack Hobbs.  Jack was a 1938 graduate of Fordham College and a 1941 graduate of Fordham Law, and he and his wife were avid Fordham followers. 
 
Birimac, who earned All-Atlantic 10 honors in both cross country and indoor track and field, finished second at the 2024 Atlantic 10 Cross Country Championship to earn Second Team All-A-10 honors. It was the highest finish ever for a Ram at the Atlantic 10 Championship and she is only the fourth Fordham woman to earn All-Atlantic 10 honors in cross country. Indoors, Birimac took first in the 5K at the 2025 Atlantic 10 Indoor Championship and paced third in the 3K. She also was the Metropolitan indoor champion in both the 1000m and mile run and was a silver medalist in the mile run at the ECAC Indoor Championship. Academically, Birimac was named Academic All-Atlantic 10 for the indoor season.