Rogers State University Athletics

2021 (Outdoor): MIAA Outdoor Track & Field Honor Roll … Set a personal and season best in the 1500-meter run, finishing with a time of 15:22.58 at the Pittsburg State University Tune-Up … Set a personal and season best in the 1500-meter run, finishing with a time of 4:14.02 at the Emporia State Midwest Classic … Earned a seventh-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the David Suenram Gorilla Classic with a time of 15:43.09 ... Earned a ninth-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the ORU Invite with a time of 16:09.26 ... Member of relay team that earned a third-place finish in the 4x800-meter relay at the Emporia State Midwest Classic with a time of 8:15.48 ...
 
2020-21 (Indoor): MIAA Indoor Track & Field Honor Roll ... Set a personal and season best in the 5000-meter run, finishing with a time of 15:36.72 at the 6th Annual Indoor Gorilla Classic … Earned a seventh-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the Wendy's/PSU MIAA Challenge with a time of 16:12.22 ...
 
2020 (XC): MIAA Cross Country Honor Roll … 2020 season was condensed with no official championship events due to COVID-19 Pandemic … Qualified as an individual for the D2 XC National Invite, finishing 56th overall ... Competed in three events on the season … Finished as the team's top runner two times … Finished as a scoring runner for the team three times … Averaged a 1.33 finish among team runners … Had an overall best finish of third on the season … Averaged a finish among all competitors of 27.67 … Ran a season best 8K time of 26:11.1 and averaged a time of 27:04.9 in 8K events for the season …
 
Northwestern Oklahoma State: Earned All-Great American Conference honors in 2018 and 2019 ... Had a standout year in 2018 for the Rangers, setting a school record in the 10K at the NCAA DII Central Region Championships with a time of 32:39.2 ... Became the first Northwestern runner to earn all-conference with a Second Team All-GAC finish at the GAC Championships and also broke his own 8K school record with a time of 26:36.8 at the GAC Championships ...  Named the Northwestern Male Sophomore Athlete of the Year and became the first ever GAC Runner of the Week for Northwestern ...  As a junior, recorded the best finish at a conference championship meet in Northwestern's DII era, finish fourth overall for First Team All-GAC honors ...  Broke his own Northwestern record again in the 8k with a time of 25:51.1 as a senior ... Named to the 2018 US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Team ... 

Cowley County CC: Ran one season at Cowley County in cross country and track & field ... Primarily competed in the 3,000 and 5,000-meter events in track ... Member of the Distance Medley Relay team that claimed a conference and regional championship ... 

Prep: Repeat state qualifier in cross country and track for Ponca City High School ...

Personal: Son of Dr. Tim and Echo Blanton ... Both parents competed in cross country and track & field in college ... Has one sister; RayLynn ... Majoring in medical/Molecular Biology with a minor in Chemistry ...