Career and Season Results
Academic Honors
4x American Conference All-Academic Team - 2022, '23, '24, '25
7x AD Honor Roll - Fall 2021, Spring '22, Fall '22, Spring '23, Fall '23, Spring '24, Fall '24
Involvement
SAAC Secretary - 2023-24
SAAC Representative - 2022-23, 2024-25
2024-25 (Redshirt-Junior): Cross Country – Raced in six meets…Finished 15
th at the Terry Masterson Twilight Classic…Ran a season-best 8K time of 24:48.5 at the Bradley Pink Classic…Finished 51
st at the American Championships with an 8K time of 25:56.4…Took 148
th at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a 10K time of 32:15.0.
Indoor – Competed in five meets…Took eighth in the mile at the Mark Colligan Memorial…Finished 13
th in the 800 meters with a season-best time of 1:54.39 and ran on the sixth-place distance medley relay at the American Indoor Championships, helping the team score three points.
Outdoor – Raced in seven meets…Finished third in the 1500 meters at both the KT Woodman Classic and the TCU Horned Frog Invite…Finished 10
th in the 1500-meter final at the American Outdoor Championships with a season-best time of 3:49.71 and took 16
th in the 800 meters with a season-best time of 1:53.63.
2023-24 (Redshirt-Sophomore): Cross Country – Competed in five meets for the Shockers…Opened his season with a 42
nd-place finish at the JK Gold Classic, running 20:30.1 in the 6K…Ran a season-best 25:38.4 in the 8K to finish 71
st at the AAC Championships.Â
Indoor – Raced in six meets…Ran on the winning DMR at the Ichabod Invitational…Finished fifth in the 800 meters at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular…Ran a season-best 4:17.62 in the mile at the Husker Invitational…Finished 10
th in the 800 meters at the AAC Championships with a season-best time of 1:54.40.
Outdoor – Competed in six meets, recording two top-five finishes…Finished fourth in the 800 meters at the Friends Spring Open…Took third in the 800 meters at the KT Woodman Classic…Ran a season-best 3:56.38 in the 1500 meters to finish sixth at the KT Woodman Classic…Ran a season-best 1:52.35 in the prelim of the 800 meters at the AAC Championships before finishing seventh in the final to score two points for the team.
2022-23 (Sophomore): Cross Country – Did not compete in a Shocker uniform.Â
Indoor – Did not compete in a Shocker uniform.
Outdoor – Did not compete in a Shocker uniform.
2021-22 (Freshman): Cross Country – Did not compete in a Shocker uniform … Competed unattached in three races … Placed 39
th at the JK Gold Classic with a 6k time of 20:27.20 … Ran a season-best 8k at the Greeno/Dirksen Invite with a time of 27:30.70 … Ended the year placing 168
th at the Gans Creek Invite.Â
Indoor – Competed in five meets…Placed fourth in the mile at both the All-Kansas Invite and the Ichabod Mid-Week Challenge…Ran a season-best 4:14.57 in the mile at the Adidas Classic…Finished 11
th in both the 800 meters and the mile at the AAC Indoor Championships.
Outdoor – Competed in six meets…Won the 1500 meters at the KT Woodman Classic…Ran a season-best 3:53.12 in the 1500 meters at the Hayward Premiere…Placed sixth in the 800 meters with a season-best 1:52.72 at the AAC Outdoor Championships and finished 14
th in the 1500 meters, scoring three points for the team.
High School: Claimed first team all-state honors as a senior … Set the Shawnee Mission North Relays meet record in the 1600 meters with a time of 4:12.98 … Was a four-time letterwinner … Eagle Scout … Earned the KSHSAA Citizenship Award in 2021 … Personal best: Mile - 4:09.35; 1600 meters (conversion) - 4:07.90; 5,000 meters – 15:58.80; 800 meters – 1:54.97; 3200 meters – 9:36.12
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Personal: Son of Shannon and Walter Vandaveer … has two sisters, Emily and Abby … Dad competed at Missouri Southern State University … Grandfather, Jim Walter, played football at United States Military Academy West Point … Plans to major in mechanical engineering.
