Season and Career Results
WSU All-Time Top-10 Lists
#5 Outdoor 1500m - 3:43.98 (2021)
#5 Outdoor DMR - 9:52.28 (2019) (Wickoren, Law, Penrod)
#6 Indoor Mile - 4:06.03 (2021)
#7 Outdoor 5,000m - 14:24.66 (2021)
NCAA Outdoor West Preliminaries
2021 1500m (28th; 3:46.57)
All-Conference
2020-21 Cross Country (14th)
2020 Indoor Distance Medley Relay (Champion)
NCAA Cross Country Midwest Regional
68th - 32:00.81 (2021)
Academic Honors
4x AD Honor Roll - Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
3x Academic All-Conference - 2021, 2020, 2019
2021-22 Cross Country – Competed in all six meets for Wichita State … Highlighted his season with an individual win at the Greeno/Dirksen Invite to lead his team to a first-place team finish … Earned another top-10 finish at the Gans Creek Invite, placing 8
th with a season-best 8k time of 24:12.70 … Placed 20
th at the AAC Championships to help his team to a second-place team finish … Capped his season with a 68
th-place finish with a 10k time of 32:00.81.
2020-21: Cross Country (competed in Spring of 2021) – Ran in both races that the Shockers competed at as a team … Was the first Shocker across the line in both meets … Placed 14th at the AAC Championships, earning all-conference honors … Took sixth at the JK Gold Classic.Â
Indoor – Ran in five races … Won the Mile at the Division I Challenge with a time of 4:06.03 … Was the runner-up in the 800 meters and Mile at the Triangular … Ran his only 5,000 meters race at the Division I Challenge and ran a time of 15:00.41 to finish 11th.Â
Outdoor – Ran at seven meets … Qualified for the West Regional in the 1,500 meters and took 28th … Ran in five races at the AAC Championships … Took second in the 800 meters at the conference meet to earn all-conference honors … Finished third at the conference meet in the 1,500 meters to earn all-conference honors … Did not finish the 5,000 meters at the conference meet … Finished in the top 10 of every race he completed during the regular season … Ran a season-best time in the 1,500 meters at the conference meet with a time of 3:43.98 … Ran his season-best time in the 800 meters at the John McDonnell Invitational with a time of 1:51.90.
2019-20: Cross Country - Competed at five meets for Wichita State … Scored in all five meets … Kicked off his season with a third-place finish at the JK Gold Classic … Was the fourth Shocker across the line at the AAC Championships as well as the Midwest Regional … Finished 31st in Memphis at the conference championship meet … Took 102nd in his only 10K at the Midwest Regional … Ran a season-best 8K time of 25:08.8 at the Bill Dellinger Invitational where he finished 89th … Finished 165th at Pre-Nationals.Â
Indoor - Ran at five meets for the Shockers … Was a member of the conference champion distance medley relay team … Finished seventh in the Mile final at the conference championships, earning Wichita State team points … Opened his season with a win in the 1,000 meters at the Triangular … Also ran the Mile at the Triangular and finished as the runner-up … Ran a season-best time of 4:10.78 in the Mile at the Iowa State Classic … Earned a top-five finish in the evening section of the 3,000 meters at the Jayhawk Classic … Also ran the Mile at the Husker Invitational.Â
Outdoor -Â 2020 season canceled.
2018-19: Cross Country - Redshirted and competed unattached...Ran in four races, including two top-35 finishes...Placed 14th at the J.K. Gold Classic 6K with a time of 19:30.3...Ran a personal best 8K (25:52.0), finishing 32nd at the FHSU Tiger Open.
Indoor - Entered five meets, running in 11 races...Opened the season winning the Hawkeye Invitational 800m with a personal best time of 1:55.13...Placed second at the Fourth Annual Gorilla Classic mile with a personal best time of 4:11.84...Ran the fastest mile prelim at the American Athletic Conference with a time of 4:14.22, before finishing seventh in the finals with a time of 4:19.53...Was part of the distance medley relay team that finished fifth at the conference championships with a time of 10:07.56.
Outdoor - Ran 13 races in six meets...Placed fourth in the 800m in 1:55.49 at the season opener Herm Wilson Invitational...Ran in the 1500m (7th, 3:57.70) and DMR (10th, 10:13.67) at the 92nd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays...Clocked a personal best 5000m time of 15:20.05 at the K.T. Woodman Classic, also won the the 1500m in 3:50.62...Was part of the 4x800m team that won the 92nd Kansas Relays in 7:50.37, also placed second in the 800m in 1:54.07...Won the 110th Drake Relays unseeded 1500m with a personal best time of 3:47.46, also the eight fastest time in Shocker history. Was also a member of the DMR team that clocked the fifth fastest time in school history in 9:52.28 finishing fourth...Scored four points at the American Athletic Conference Championships finishing sixth in the 1500m (3:56.32) and eighth in the 800m (1:59.55), recorded a personal best 800m time of 1:52.85 in the prelims.
High School: Lettered four years in cross country, track and field...Was an eight-time OSSAA 6A state qualifier in cross country and track and field...Won the OSSAA 6A state cross country championship with a time of 15:47.0 on the 5K course...Was a three-time state champion in track and field his senior season, winning the 800m, 1600m and 3200m...Personal bests - 4:13 in the mile, 8:57 in the 3000m and 9:43 in the 3200m.
Personal: Son of Carolyn and Eddy Helker...Has one older brother, Evan, and one older sister Hannah...Sister Hannah competed at Oklahoma Baptist...Father Eddy wrestled in college...Majoring in exercise science.
