Statesmen 17th in Regular Season Finale in Nebraska

Ashland, Neb.–The William Penn men’s cross country team finished its regular season Saturday as it competed at the Blazing Tiger NAIA Classic.

WPU finished 17th out of 27 programs with 498 points, while Southern Oregon was the team champion with 73 points.

Mohamed Guled of Mid-America Christian (Okla.) was first out of 412 runners in the 8K race with a time of 24:11.3.

Andrew Miller (Sr., Le Claire, Iowa, Exercise Science) headlined the Statesmen competitors in 52nd at 26:08.2.

Gavin Huff (Jr., Mascoutah, Ill., Mechanical Engineering), in 139th place (27:29.3), was next, while Carson Springer (Sr., Grimes, Iowa, Business Management), in 148th (27:35.6), and Cameron Shutwell (Jr., Fort Madison, Iowa, Exercise Science), 185th (27:56.7), also ended up in the top 200.

Lukas White (Fr., Rockford, Ill., Mechanical Engineering) wrapped up WPU’s scoring by hitting the line in 28:23.0 (217th).

Sutton Shively (Jr., Bloomfield, Iowa, Mechanical Engineering) led the remaining Statesmen by taking 222nd place in 28:27.8. Chad Brooks (Fr., Lithonia, Ga., Computer Science) (248th, 28:56.0) had a big day as well.

“We battled against some great competition today and stayed composed,” Head Coach Caleb Silver said. “We know we still have some work to do to get ready for conference in a couple weeks, but this was a great opportunity to work on navigating through traffic and finding each other in a larger field of runners.”

“Cameron Shutwell continues to establish himself as one our top guys, and had his first PR as a Statesmen,” Silver added. “Lukas White also had another PR, while Chad Brooks had a huge lifetime best to round out our top seven.”

Next Up: William Penn travels to Baldwin City, Kan. on Saturday, November 7 to compete in the Heart of America Athletic Conference Championship. The race will start at 11 a.m.