Biography
2021 (Outdoor): MIAA Outdoor Track & Field Honor Roll ... MIAA Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week (3/22) … Set a personal best and established a new school record in the 10,000-meter run, finishing with a time of 31:28.80 at the Emporia State Midwest Classic … Set a personal and season best in the 1500-meter run, finishing with a time of 14:54.10 at the MIAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships … Set a personal and season best in the 1500-meter run, finishing with a time of 4:02.76 at the Pittsburg State University Tune-Up … Earned an eighth-place finish in the 1500-meter run at the ORU Invite with a time of 4:03.25 ... Set a personal best and established a new school record in the 3000-meter steeplechase, finishing with a time of 9:13.78 at the MIAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships … Earned a first-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the David Suenram Gorilla Classic with a time of 9:47.82 ... Earned a second-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational with a time of 9:34.15 ... Earned a second-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the ORU Invite with a time of 9:44.16 ... Earned a fourth-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Kansas City Qualifier with a time of 9:17.78 ... Earned a fifth-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the NCC Dr. Keeler Track & Field Meet with a time of 9:14.23 ... Earned a fourth-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational with a time of 14:56.18 ... Set a personal and season best in the 800-meter run, finishing with a time of 2:04.83 at the David Suenram Gorilla Classic …
2020 (Outdoor): Ran a season best in the 3000-meter steeplechase, picking up the victory with a time of 9:39.42 at the Hendrix Alumni Open, which was the fifth fastest time in the nation when the season was canceled due to the CORVID-19 pandemic …
2019-20 (Indoor): MIAA Indoor Track & Field Honor Roll … Set a personal best and established a new school record in the 5000-meter run, finishing with a time of 15:02.90 at the MIAA Indoor Track & Field Championships … Set a personal and season best in the 3000-meter run, finishing with a time of 8:48.66 at the 5th Annual Indoor Gorilla Classic … Ran a season best in the mile, finishing with a time of 4:39.03 at the UCO Weilert Open … Earned a second-place finish in the 3000-meter run at the MSSU Lion Open & Multi with a time of 8:57.09 ... Member of relay team that earned a fourth-place finish in the distance-medley relay at the MSSU Lion Open & Multi with a time of 10:52.82 ...
2019 (XC): MIAA Cross Country Honor Roll … Ran a personal best in the 4-mile event at the UCO Land Run Invitational on September 7, 2019, running a 20:41.1 to finish as Rogers State's top runner ... Ran a personal best in the 8k event at the MIAA Cross Country Championships on October 26, 2019, running a 25:29.0 to finish as Rogers State's top runner ... Ran a personal best in the 10k event at the NCAA Division II Central Region Championships on November 9, 2019, running a 32:05.2 to finish as Rogers State's top runner ... Finished as the Hillcats top runner at the Southern Stampede, running a 25:59.7 in the 8k event ... Finished as the Hillcats top runner at the Lewis Crossover, running a 26:48.3 in the 8k event ...
2019 (Outdoor): First Team All-GAC (5000-meter run) … First Team All-GAC (3000m steeplechase) … Set a personal best and established a new school record in the 3000-meter steeplechase, finishing with a time of 9:22.92 at the Arkansas Twilight ... Set a personal and season best with a victory in the 5000-meter run, finishing with a time of 15:26.42 at the Wendy's/PSU Invitational ... Earned a second-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Oklahoma Baptist Early Outdoor Invite with a time of 10:00.82 ... Earned a third-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the Great American Conference Championships with a time of 15:42.67 ... Earned a third-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Great American Conference Championships with a time of 9:37.42 ... Earned a third-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the Oklahoma Baptist Invite with a time of 16:01.95 ... Earned a third-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the KT Woodman Classic with a time of 9:39.37 ...
2018-19 (Indoor): Set a personal and season best in the 5000-meter run, finishing with a time of 15:32.38 at the Crimson & Gold Invitational ... Set a personal and season best in the 3000-meter run, finishing with a time of 9:02.87 at the 4th Annual Indoor Gorilla Classic ... Earned a fourth-place finish in the 3000-meter run at the Great American Conference Championships with a time of 9:05.42 ... Earned a fourth-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the Great American Conference Championships with a time of 15:50.21 ... Earned a fourth-place finish in the 3000-meter run at the UCO Open with a time of 9:15.54 ... Member of relay team that ran a season best in the distance-medley relay, finishing with a time of 10:52.05 at the 4th Annual Indoor Gorilla Classic ...
2018 (XC): First Team All-Heartland … Three-time Heartland Conference Runner of the Week (9/4, 9/18, 10/16) … Competed in six events on the season … Finished as the team’s top runner four times … Finished as a scoring runner for the team six times … Averaged a 1.17 finish among team runners … Had an overall best finish of 4th on the season … Averaged a finish among all competitors of 37.17 … Ran a season best 8K time of 25:39.9 and averaged a time of 26:04.4 in 8K events for the season …
2018 (Outdoor): Second Team All-GAC (3,000m steeplechase) ... Set a personal and season best in the 800-meter run, finishing with a time of 2:17.10 at the Oklahoma Baptist Early Outdoor Invite ... Ran a season best in the 3000-meter steeplechase, finishing with a time of 9:36.36 at the Great American Conference Championships ... Ran a season best in the 5000-meter run, finishing with a time of 15:30.02 at the Great American Conference Championships ... Earned a third-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Oklahoma Baptist Early Outdoor Invite with a time of 10:18.96 ... Earned a seventh-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the Emporia State Relays with a time of 15:40.16 ... Earned an eighth-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the UCA Open with a time of 15:48.19 ... Earned a ninth-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the MSSU Bill Williams/Bob Laptad Invite with a time of 15:49.57 ...
2017-18 (Indoor): Set a personal and season best in the mile, finishing with a time of 4:33.35 at the Pittsburg State Invitational ... Ran a season best in the 3000-meter run, finishing with a time of 9:08.93 at the MSSU Lion Open & Multi ... Ran a season best in the 5000-meter run, finishing with a time of 15:59.69 at the Crimson & Gold Invitational ... Member of relay team that ran a season best in the distance-medley relay, finishing with a time of 10:52.13 at the Pittsburg State Invitational ...
2017 (XC): Ran in four events during his sophomore season on College Hill for the cross country team...Placed a season-best 13th overall at the UCO Land Run on Sept. 2, 2017 in 20:56.54 in the 4-mile race...Took 25th overall with a season-best time of 26:56.64 at the Greater Louisville Classic on Sept. 30, 2017...
2017 (Outdoor): Ran a season best in the 5000-meter run, finishing with a time of 15:35.43 at the MSSU Bill Williams/Bob Laptad Invite ... Ran a season best in the 3000-meter steeplechase, finishing with a time of 9:47.76 at the Great American Conference Championships ... Earned a first-place finish in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Oklahoma Baptist Invite with a time of 10:02.33 ... Earned a fifth-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the Wendy's/PSU Invitational with a time of 15:41.22 ... Earned an eighth-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the Oklahoma Baptist Early Outdoor Invite with a time of 16:10.74 ... Earned a 10th-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the KT Woodman Classic with a time of 15:51.52 ...
2016-17 (Indoor): Ran a season best in the 5000-meter run, finishing with a time of 16:00.48 at the MSSU Lion Invitational ... Ran a season best in the 3000-meter run, finishing with a time of 9:09.28 at the Pittsburg State Invitational ...
2016 (XC): Competed in all six events during his first season in the navy in red for cross country in the fall...Placed in the top 30 three times with a season-best finish of 14th at the OBU Invitational on Oct. 8 in Shawnee, Okla...Ran a personal-best time of 26:12.64 in the OBU race...Started his collegiate career in 25th place at the UCO Land Run on Sept. 3 with a time of 21:56.4 in the 4-mile event...Placed 27th at the Heartland Conference Championship on Oct. 22 in 26:41.6.
Prep: Closed out his prep career as a two-time state cross country qualifier at Sapulpa High School ... Ran for his mother and head coach Debbie Williams ... Named all-state, all-district, and all-conference in cross country as a senior in 2015 ... Placed fourth in the 2,000-meter steeplechase during the summer of 2014 at the USATF Hershey Youth Championships ... Turned in a third-place performance in the 2,000-meter steeplechase and finished ninth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2013 USATF Youth Nationals ... Selected to the academic all-conference team three times with the Chieftains ... Ran a personal best in cross country of 16:10 in the 5k ... In track & field, set personal bests of 10:08 in the 3200-meter run and 6:53 in the 2000-meter steeplechase ...
Personal: Son of Shane and Debbie ... Debbie ran cross country and track & field at the University of Tulsa from 1995-97 ... Has one sibling; Jayden ... Majoring in Sports Management ...
