Biography
Sport, Wellness and Recreation Management major …Oklahoma Christian’s and the Great American Conference’s first NCAA Division II champion, taking the national title in the 400-meter hurdles as a senior … Five-time Division II All-American during his career … The top returning 400-meter hurdler in NCAA Division II, coming off a third-place finish in the 2017 D-2 Outdoor Championships … Two-time D-2 All-America honoree, once indoors and once outdoors … Snapped a 49-year-old OC record in the 400 hurdles as a junior … As a sophomore, became the first OC male track and field athlete to qualify for the Division II Outdoor Championships … Key member of record-setting 4x400-meter relay team for the Eagles that earned indoor All-America status in 2017 … Made a major impact during his first year, earning NCCAA All-America honors in five events and NCAA Division II All-Region honors in his specialty event, the 400-meter hurdles … Has top times of 50.99 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles, 50.33 seconds in the 400 meters, 22.94 seconds in the 200 meters, 14.45 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles and 8.18 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles … 2018: National champion in the 400-meter hurdles, the first at the Division II level in OC athletic history … Earned All-America honors outdoors in the 400-meter hurdles, indoor 400 meters and indoor 4x400-meter relay … All-South Central Region honoree in indoor 400 meters and 4x400-meter relay and outdoor 110-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles … Named as Mr. Eagle, the top honor in OC athletics, sharing the honor with basketball player Elijah Strickland … Great American Conference champion in the 400 hurdles and first-team All-GAC honoree in the 400 hurdles and 110 hurdles … Named once as GAC track athlete of the week … Named twice as HeroSports.com’s Division II Hero of the Week … During indoor season, ran the 60-meter hurdles, the 400 meters and on OC’s 4x400-meter relay team … Best 60 hurdles time was 8.09 seconds in the Pittsburg State Invitational and matched it at the Arkansas Qualifier … Set a school record of 47.41 seconds in the 400 meters at the Arkansas Qualifier … Also at the Arkansas Qualifier, was part of the 4x400-meter relay team that set another school record, winning in 3:12.20 … The relay team consisted of Ian Colbert, Huslig, Sawyer Pehkonen and Austin Kruzich … At the Division II Indoor Championships in Pittsburg, Kan., ran the second-fastest time in OC history in the prelims, finishing eighth in 47.59 seconds to qualify for the final … In the title race, posted a time of 47.54 seconds to place fourth, earning All-America honors … In the meet’s final event, the 4x400 relay, again ran the second leg and helped the Eagles win their heat – and finish seventh overall – with time of 3:13.77, earning them All-America honors for a second straight year … During outdoor season, ran in both the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles events, as well as in the 200 meters and the 4x400 relay … In only 200 race, posted career-best time of 21.48 seconds in the Arkansas Twilight meet … Finished 10th in the 400 hurdles at the prestigious Texas Relays in 51.27 seconds … Placed fourth in the 110 hurdles at Texas State’s Bobcat Invitational in 14.38 seconds, earning GAC track athlete of the week honors … Won the 400 hurdles for the third straight year at the Great American Conference Championships in Magnolia, Ark., with time of 52.58 seconds … Suffered an upset in the 110 hurdles, finishing second in 14.91 seconds … Third in the 400 hurdles at the Drake Relays in 50.53 seconds, helping him win HeroSports.com Hero of the Week award the first time … In addition to his personal record in the 200 at the Arkansas Twilight meet, ran a time of 14.38 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles to win the race and snap a 40-year-old OC record … Broke his own school record in the 400 hurdles at the Oxy Invitational in Los Angeles, posting time of 50.32 seconds to win the race … At the time, it was the second-fastest 400 hurdles time by a Division II runner all season and it earned him HeroSports.com Hero of the Week honors for a second time … At the Division II Outdoor Championships in Charlotte, N.C., won his heat race and finished third overall in the prelims with time of 50.65 seconds … Two days later, took advantage of a miscue by the race favorite and outleaned Chad Miller of American International (Mass.) at the line to win in a school-record time of 49.67 seconds, breaking his arm as he fell past the finish line … It was the first national title in OC’s Division II history and the first national title ever won by an athlete from the GAC … It also ranked as the 10th-fastest time by a hurdler at any collegiate level in 2018 … The win eventually earned him a leGACy award from the conference for Most Outstanding Performance at the NCAA Division II Championship by a GAC athlete or team … Went on to become the first OC athlete since Jeff Bennett in the early 1970s to compete at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships … At the USATF meet in Des Moines, Iowa, finished 17th overall – one spot shy of qualifying for the semifinals – with time of 51.17 seconds … 2017: Two-time NCAA Division II All-America selection, finishing sixth in the 4x400-meter relay indoors and third in the 400-meter hurdles outdoors … All-Region selection in the 60-meter hurdles and 4x400-meter relay indoors and the 400-meter hurdles outdoors … Great American Conference champion in the 400-meter hurdles, the 110-meter hurdles and the 4x400-meter relay, earning All-GAC first-team honors in each … GAC runner of the week … Named as All-OklahomaSports.net Oklahoma Division II athlete of the week … Named to the Heartland Conference academic Honor Roll’s Commissioner’s List (spring semester) … During indoor season, competed in the 60-meter hurdles, the 600-yard run and the 4x400 relay … Posted a D-2 provisional qualifying time of 8.18 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles in the Pittsburg State Invitational, which eventually earned him All-Region honors … At the Missouri Southern Open, ran 1:13.92 to win the 600-yard run … Running with 4x400 relay teammates Sawyer Pehkonen, Joshua Jones and Jalen Brown, broke the school record with a time of 3:13.10 in the Arkansas Qualifier to secure their spot at the D-2 Indoor Championships … At the NCAA meet in Birmingham, Ala., that quartet finished sixth, again breaking the school record with a time of 3:12.73 while also earning All-America honors … During outdoor season, ran in the 110-meter hurdles, the 400-meter hurdles and in the 4x400-meter relay … Won both hurdle events in the Oklahoma Baptist Invitational, in 14.63 seconds and 53.51 seconds, respectively, earning him GAC runner-of-the-week honors … Posted season-best 110 hurdles time of 14.45 seconds in the Friends Invitational … Won all three events in which he competed in the GAC Championships in Searcy, Ark. … Took the 110 hurdles in 14.62 seconds, the 400 hurdles in 52.90 seconds and the 4x400 relay in season-best 3:14.18 … One of only two competitors in the GAC meet to win three event titles, which earned him the Oklahoma Division II athlete of the week award from the website OklahomaSports.net … Ran the 400 hurdles at the prestigious Drake Relays, placing fourth in 51.76 seconds … Broke OC assistant coach Jeff Bennett’s 49-year-old record in the 400 hurdles, running 51.30 seconds in the Oxy Invitational in Los Angeles … Lowered that record again in the NCAA D-2 Outdoor Championships in Bradenton, Fla., running a smart, controlled race to place third in 50.99 seconds and earn All-America honors, after finishing fifth in 51.46 seconds in the preliminary round … 2016: All-Region selection in the 4x400-meter relay during indoor season (with teammates Joshua Jones, Ryan Lutterloh and Sawyer Pehkonen) and in the 400-meter hurdles during the outdoor season … Made history as OC’s first-ever entrant in the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships, qualifying in the 400-meter hurdles … Great American Conference champion in the 400-meter hurdles … Earned All-GAC first-team honors in the 400-meter hurdles, 110-meter hurdles and outdoor 4x400-meter relay … Named once as the GAC track athlete of the week … During indoor season, competed in the 60-meter hurdles, 200 meters, 400 meters and 4x400-meter relay … Ran a career-best 60-meter hurdles time of 8.40 seconds at Nebraska’s Holiday Inn Invitational … Top 200 time of 22.94 seconds came in the Missouri Southern Open Invitational … Best 400 time was 50.33 seconds in the Missouri Southern Lion Open … Joined Jones, Lutterloh and Pehkonen on a 4x400 relay team that snapped a 50-year-old school record in the event on Jan. 29 with a 3:15.74 time at the Pittsburg State Invitational … Fifteen days later, that foursome did it again, posting time of 3:14.54 at Pittsburg State’s Indoor Gorilla Classic … Those efforts earned the OC quartet All-South Central Region honors in the event and provisionally qualified them for the Division II Indoor Championships, although they didn’t make the time cutoff to compete at the national meet … During outdoor season, competed in the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles as well as on the Eagles’ 4x400 relay team … Won six 400-meter hurdle races and one 110-meter hurdle race … Won the GAC title in the 400-meter hurdles in Shawnee with a time of 53.00 seconds … Finished as the GAC runner-up in the 110 hurdles (14.77 seconds) and 4x400 relay (3:15.24) … Best 400 hurdles time was 52.10 during the preliminary round at the prestigious Kansas Relays, a time that eventually earned him All-Region honors in the event … He eventually finished fourth in that meet … Won 400 hurdles titles in the Southwestern (Kan.) Invitational (52.49 seconds), Oklahoma Baptist Invitational (53.96 seconds), Wichita State’s K.T. Woodman Classic (52.43 seconds), Southwestern (Kan.) Relays (52.12 seconds), the GAC Championships and the South Central Regional Challenge at West Texas A&M (52.16) … After the win in the Wichita State meet, was named as the GAC runner of the week … At Division II Championships in Bradenton, Fla., placed 16th in 53.99 seconds and didn’t qualify for the event final … His 110-meter hurdles win came at the Southwestern Relays (14.78 seconds) … Best time in the outdoor 4x400 relay (with Jones, Lutterloh and Pehkonen) was 3:14.26 in the Kansas Relays … 2015: During indoor season, qualified for the NCCAA Championships in the 60-meter hurdles and as part of OC’s 4x200-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams … In the 55-meter hurdles at the national meet in Cedarville, Ohio, finished third in 7.87 seconds to earn All-America honors … 4x400 relay team of Huslig, Kentrell Miller, Joshua Jones and Thomas Ducat earned All-America honors, finishing second in 3:23.92 … 4x200 quartet of Huslig, Miller, Ducat and Jamal George took third in 1:31.53, also earning All-America honors … Had top 60-meter hurdles time of 8.53 seconds in the Central Oklahoma Indoor Invitational … During outdoor season, qualified for the NCCAA Championships in the 110-meter hurdles, the 400-meter hurdles, the 4x400-meter relay and the 4x100-meter relay, although he did not compete in the latter event at the national meet in Rome, Ga. … Took second and earned All-America honors in the 400-meter hurdles with season-best time of 52.55 seconds … In the 4x400 relay, ran the anchor leg on a squad that included Jones, Miller and Ducat and finished second in 3:16.62, giving Huslig his fifth All-America performance of his freshman campaign … Finished an uncharacteristic 16th in the 110-meter hurdles at the national meet, failing to quality for the final with a preliminary time of 16.38 seconds … Named to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s NCAA Division II All-South Central Region team in the 400-meter hurdles, having recorded one of the five best times in the event of any runner in the region … Named as the NCCAA student-athlete of the week three times during the outdoor season … First time was after winning the 400-meter hurdles and placing third in the 110-meter hurdles at the Southwestern Invitational in March … Also earned the honor in April after a standout performance in Pittsburg State’s David Suneram Gorilla Classic, in which he finished third in the 400 hurdles and 4x100 relay, fifth in the 4x400 relay and eighth in the 110 hurdles … Received the NCCAA honor a third time after his performance at the national meet … Previous school: Attended Deer Creek High School in Edmond, where he was a three-time Class 5A state champion as a senior in 2014 … Won 5A titles in the 300-meter hurdles (37.76 seconds) and as part of the 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams … Also appeared to have won state title in 110-meter hurdles in 14.35 seconds, but he hit final hurdle and it fell into another runner’s lane, impeding that runner, and Huslig was disqualified … Led Deer Creek to its third straight 5A team title nonetheless … Named as The Oklahoman’s Big All-City track and field athlete of the year as a senior.
