Biography
Mechanical Engineering major … Joins the cross country team for one season after a decorated career as a sprinter for the Eagles … A two-time NCAA Division II All-American in the indoor 4x400-meter relay and an Academic All-America second-team honoree … Married to OC cross country and track runner Rachel Meyers … Made an immediate impact in his first season at OC after transferring from NCAA Division I program … Posted a provisional national qualifying time in the 400 meters and 4x400-meter relay during the 2016 indoor season … Won a Big Sky Conference championship in the 4x400-meter indoor relay as a freshman … Has personal-best times of 2:02.56 in the 800 meters, 1:22.17 in the 600 meters, 48.16 seconds in the 400 meters, 21.59 seconds in the 200 meters, 10.64 seconds in the 100 meters and 7.11 seconds in the 60 meters … 2018: NCAA Division II All-America selection in the indoor 4x400-meter relay … Academic All-America (second-team) and Academic All-District selection by CoSIDA … All-South Central Region in the indoor 4x400 relay … USTFCCCA All-Academic individual honoree in track and field … Named to the Heartland Conference academic Honor Roll’s President’s List (both semesters) … Named to the Great American Conference Academic All-Conference list for track and field … Recipient of Division II Athletic Directors Association Academic Achievement Award …During indoor track season, ran in seven meets … Ran career-best 600-yard time of 1:12.85 in Pittsburg State’s Crimson and Gold Invitational … Set career-best 60-meter time of 7.11 seconds in the Central Oklahoma Invitational in Norman … Ran third leg on OC’s 4x400 relay team (joining Ian Colbert, Landon Huslig and Austin Kruzich) that lowered the school record to 3:12.20 while winning the Arkansas Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. … Ran a season-best 48.23-second time in the 400 meters at the same meet … At the Division II Indoor Championships in Pittsburg, Kan., joined Colbert, Huslig and Kruzich to post a time of 3:13.77 to win their heat and finish seventh in the 4x400 relay, earning All-America honors … During the outdoor track season, ran in five meets … In first 800-meter race in years, finished in 2:05.04 in the Oklahoma Baptist Early Outdoor Invitational, just five days after the Division II national indoor meet … Posted season-best times in the 200 (22.09 seconds) and 400 (49.30 seconds) in Texas State’s Bobcat Invitational … In his final collegiate track race, teamed with Huslig, Kruzich and Javier Hernandez to post a season-best time of 3:15.54 in the 4x400 relay … 2017: NCAA Division II All-America selection in the indoor 4x400-meter relay … All-South Central Region in the indoor 4x400 relay … Great American Conference champion and All-GAC 1st-team honoree in the outdoor 4x400 relay … All-GAC second-team honoree in the outdoor 400 meters … Named as an All-Academic individual for track by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association … Named as a Crafton Tull/Great American Conference Distinguished Scholar … Named to the Heartland Conference academic Honor Roll’s President’s List (spring semester) … Named to the Great American Conference Academic All-Conference list for track and field … Recipient of Division II Athletic Directors Association Academic Achievement Award … During indoor season, competed at 200, 300 and 400 meters … Won his lone 300-meter race, running 34.97 seconds in Pittsburg State’s Crimson and Gold Invitational … Also won the 400 in the Missouri Southern Open with a time of 49.96 seconds … Best 400 time was 48.89 seconds in the Arkansas Qualifier … Ran a season-best time of 22.62 seconds in the 200 in the Missouri Southern Open … Along with 4x400 relay teammates Landon Huslig, Joshua Jones and Jalen Brown, broke the school record in that event with a time of 3:13.10 in the Arkansas Qualifier, securing themselves a spot in the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships … At the national meet in Birmingham, Ala., ran the leadoff leg and finished sixth in the 4x400 relay in a school-record time of 3:12.73 … The foursome became the first OC track and field athletes to earn Division II All-America honors … During outdoor season, competed at 100, 200 and 400 meters … Ran a career-best (wind-aided) 100 time of 10.64 seconds in the Friends Invitational … Season-best 200 time of 21.84 seconds (wind-aided) also came at the Friends Invitational … At the GAC Championships in Searcy, Ark., ran a season-best 400 time of 49.04 seconds to place fifth and earn All-GAC second-team honors … Joined Huslig, Jones and Brown on OC’s winning 4x400 relay team, which finished in 3:14.18 … Also competed in the 100 meters, finishing 14th in 11.44 seconds … 2016: Earned All-South Central Region honors in the indoor 4x400-meter relay (along with teammates Joshua Jones, Ryan Lutterloh and Landon Huslig) … Earned All-Great American Conference first-team outdoor honors in the 4x400 relay and 400 meters and second-team honors in the 200 meters … Named as an All-Academic Individual by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association … Recipient of Division II Athletic Directors Association Academic Achievement Award … Named to the Great American Conference Academic All-Conference list for track and field … During indoor season, competed in the 60 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters … Ran NCAA Division II provisional qualifying time of 48.60 seconds in the 400 meters at the Pittsburg State Invitational, although he didn’t make the cut for the D-2 national indoor meet … Joined Joshua Jones, Landon Huslig and Ryan Lutterloh 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 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, although they didn’t make the time cutoff to compete at the national meet … Top 200-meter time was 22.19 seconds in the Nebraska Tune-Up … Best 60-meter time was 7.19 seconds in the Oklahoma Baptist Indoor-Outdoor Invitational … During outdoor season, competed in the 200 meters and 400 meters … In the GAC Championships in Shawnee, earned All-GAC first-team honors with a runner-up finish in the 400 meters in 48.43 seconds … Was All-GAC second-team in the 200, placing fifth with wind-aided time of 21.59 seconds, a career best … Also was All-GAC first-team honoree in the 4x400 relay, as he, Huslig, Jones and Lutterloh placed second in 3:15.24 … Ran career-best 400 time of 48.16 seconds in the South Central Regional Challenge at West Texas A&M … Took top honors in the 200 (21.92 seconds) and 400 (48.47 seconds) at the Southwestern (Kan.) Relays … Previous school: Attended Northern Colorado, where he was part of a relay team that won the Big Sky 4x400 indoor title with school-record time of 3:11.83 … Part of a 4x400 relay team that broke Northern Colorado’s 17-year-old outdoor record in the event, winning the Wyoming Cowpoke Open with time of 3:09.02 … Finished second in the Big Sky Outdoor Championships in the 4x400 relay in 3:10.58 … Individually, was ninth in the Big Sky in the outdoor 400 meters and 13th in the indoor 400 meters … Named to the Big Sky’s Winter Sports All-Academic Team for 2014-15 … Before Northern Colorado, attended Resurrection Christian School in Loveland, Colo., earning All-State honors after finishing as the 400-meter runner-up in the Colorado Class 2A state meet … His 4x400 relay team place third in the state meet … Set school records in the 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters and 500 meters … Earned all-conference honors as both a junior and senior.
