Career and Season Results
All-Conference
Cross Country
2022 (14th; 24:27.1)
NCAA Cross Country Midwest Regional
51st - 30:33.9 (2022)
86th - 32:19.98 (2021)
Academic Honors
3x Academic All-Conference - 2021, '22, '23
6x AD Honor Roll - Fall '20, Spring/Fall '21, Spring/Fall '22, Spring/Fall '23
Involvement
SAACÂ Vice President - 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023
2023-24 (Junior): Cross Country – Raced in four meets for the Shockers, scoring in all four and finishing as the top Shocker at the Bradley Pink Classic…Opened his season with a fourth-place finish at the JK Gold Classic, running a season-best 6K time of 18:21.0…Finished 11
th at the Bradley Pink Classic with an 8K time of 24:37.0…Placed 21
st at the AAC Championships with a season-best time of 23:46.9.
2022-23 (Sophomore): Cross Country – Raced in all five meets for the Shockers…Opened his season with a 12
th-place finish at the JK Gold Classic…Scored in the final three meets…Recorded a season-best 8K time of 24:05.3 at the Bradley Pink Classic…Earned all-conference honors at the AAC Championships with his 14
th-place finish…Finished 51
st at the NCAA Midwest Regional, where the team placed fifth.Â
Indoor – Competed in five meets…Finished fifth in the 5,000 meters at the Husker Invitational…Ran a season-best 8:18.34 in the 3,000 meters to place fourth at the Ichabod Invitational…Scored three points for the team at the AAC Indoor Championships with a sixth-place finish in the 5,000 meters, clocking the fourth-fastest time in Shocker history (14:11.85)…Finished 11
th in the 3,000 meters at the conference meet with a time of 8:19.70.
Outdoor – Did not compete in a Shocker uniform…Raced unattached in three meets…Finished fourth in the 3,000 meters at the Shocker Spring Invitational with a time 8:29.31…Ran 14:26.12 in the 5,000 meters at the Drake Relays.
2021-22 (Freshman II) Cross Country – Competed in all six races for Wichita State … Opened the season with two top-15 finishes at the JK Gold Classic and the Greeno/Dirksen Invite … Ran a season-best 8k at the Gans Creek Invite with a time of 25:02.50 … Placed 30
th at the Bradley Pink Classic to help the Shockers win the team title … Raced to a 19
th-place finish at the AAC Championships and placed 86
th in the NCAA Midwest Regional with a 10k time of 32:19.98 to cap the season.Â
Indoor – Competed in five meets…Won the 3,000 meters at the Ichabod Mid-Week Challenge with a season-best 8:20.58…Placed four in the 5,000 meters at the Washburn Open…Placed in the top five in four out of six races…Placed seventh in the 5,000 meters and 15
th in the 3,000 meters at the AAC Indoor Championships to score two points for the team.
Outdoor – Competed in six meets…Won the 3,000 meters at the Shocker Spring Invitational…Ran a season0best 30:11.80 in the 10,000 meters to place sixth at the Hayward Premiere…Ran his best 5,000 meters at the Drake Relays, finishing 12
th with a time of 14:19.26…Placed fifth in the 10,000 meters and ninth in the 5,000 meters at the AAC Outdoor Championships to score four points for the team.
2020-21 (Freshman): Cross Country (competed in Spring of 2021) – Ran in both meet the Shockers competed in as a team … Placed 26th at the JK Gold Classic … Took 37th at the AAC Championships.Â
Indoor – Ran in one race … Took 14th in the 5,000 meters at the Division I Challenge with a time of 15:24.48.Â
Outdoor – Ran in two races … Finished eighth at the AAC Championships in the 10,000 meters with a time of 31:40.94 … Took 25th in the 5,000 meters at the conference meet with a time of 15:18.56.
High School: Won the 2019 KSHSAA 5A Great Bend Cross Country Regional meet with a time of 16:31.8 over 5,000 meters … Took fifth at the KSHSAA 5A State Cross Country Championship in 2019 … Went on to the NXR Heartland Regional Championships where he took sixth and ran a 5K cross country PR of 16:12.4 … Made appearances at the KSHSAA 5A Cross Country State Championships during all four years of high school, never finishing worse than 43rd … Ran track as well in high school, appearing at Regional meets in his first three years … Best regional finish was a sixth-place finish in the 1,600 meters at the Kansas 5A Regional #7 … Earned All-State honors as a junior and senior in cross country … As a senior, he was named to the Wichita Eagle’s Cross Country All-Metro team … Holds the Maize South record in the 3,200 meters with a time of 9:21.3 … Plans to major in Entrepeneurship … His father, Hector, was a two-time NAIA All-American while running on the cross country and track teams at Southwestern College … His mother, Cynthia, played tennis at Southwestern College … His aunt, Raquel Rios-Reed, is a three-time Olympic marathon trials qualifier.
