Biography
Concordia Career
2023: NCAA Division II Indoor National Champion in the heptathlon … All-America First Team in the heptathlon … USTFCCCA Indoor Field Scholar Men’s Athlete of the Year … USTFCCCA First Team Indoor All-American … USTFCCCA Academic All-America Second Team … USTFCCCA All-Region … CSC Academic All-District … NSIC Men’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Year … NSIC heptathlon champion … All-NSIC in the heptathlon and high jump … NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence … Week Two NSIC Men’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Week … Concordia St. Paul Male Athlete of the Year … competed in 60m, 1000m, 60m hurdles, long jump, high jump, shot put, pole vault and heptathlon … broke the NSIC record in the heptathlon with a score of 5623 … broke the school record in the pole vault at 4.76m (15’ 7.25”) … tied the school record in the high jump at 2.05m (6’ 8.75”) … ran personal best 60m with a time of 7.22 along with personal best long jump at 7.10m (23’ 2.5”) and personal best shot put 13.97m (45’ 10”) at the Mark Schuck Open and Multi … ran personal best 60m hurdles with a time of 8.41 and a personal best 1000m at 2:45.77 at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships … tallied 14 first place finishes and 35 top-five finishes.
2022: Competed in the 60m hurdles, 110m hurdles, 1000m, pole vault, shot put, long jump, high jump, discus throw, javelin throw, 4x400m relay, heptathlon, and decathlon for the Golden Bears ... finished first in the heptathlon with a score 5026 at the SDSU Holiday Open ... finished first and set a personal best in the high jump with a distance of 2.03m (6' 8") at the Mark Schuck Open... finished first in the 4x400 relay at the NSIC & Friends Indoor Challenge ... was runner-up in the heptathlon with a score of 5279 at the NSIC Indoor Track & Field Championships ... set a personal best in the discus with a throw of 38.81m (127' 4") at the Minnesota State Open ... set a personal best in the shot put with a throw of 13.48m (44' 2.75") ... finished first in the decathlon with a score of 7145 at the Drake Relays ... finished fourth in the decathlon with a score of 7243 at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championship.
2021: Named to the NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence in the winter and the spring ... competed in the 60m hurdles, 110m hurdles, 1000m, pole vault, shot put, long jump, high jump, discus throw, javelin throw, 4x400m relay, heptathlon, and decathlon for the Bears ... broke the school record in the javelin throw at the NSIC Outdoor Championships (5/13-15) with a mark of 55.52m ... earned All-NSIC honors in the heptathlon at the NSIC Indoor Championships (2/26-27) with 4751 points ... set a new personal record and won the decathlon at the Yellow Jacket Spring Open (3/27-28) with 6108 points ... set a new personal record in the high jump at the Maverick Spring Invite (4/2-3) with a height of 1.95m ... set new personal records in both the discus and 100m hurdles at the River City Rumble (4/24) ... collected 19 top-ten finishes on the season.
2020: Did not compete.
2019: Was named to the NSIC All-Academic spring team … competed in the javelin throw, discus, the decathlon, and the heptathlon for the Golden Bears … placed ninth in the javelin at the NSIC Outdoor Track & Field Championships (5/11) with a 51.44m throw … threw a personal best 35.58m in the discus throw at the Tomcat Twilight (4/18), set a personal best in the heptathlon finishing seventh while scoring 4625 at the 2019 NSIC Track and Field Indoor Championship (Feb 22-23), recorded a personal best in the high jump with a jump of 1.89m while finishing in fifth place at the Ted Nelson Classic (2/02).
2018: Competed in a variety of events, including the heptathlon and the decathlon … posted 13 top-ten finishes … finished second in the Central College Dutch Invitational decathlon with 4800 points … was part of a 4x400m relay team that won at the MSU Spring Winter Invitational (4/11) with a time of 3:36.34 … also set personal records in the 110m hurdles (17.66) and the long jump (5.97) at the same meet, finishing fourth and fifth, respectively.
Wausau West High School: Lettered 12 times, four in track and field, four in football and four in basketball for the Warriors … two-time state qualifier in high jump and two-time section qualifier in discus … named All-Wisconsin Valley Conference three straight years in basketball … set PRs of 6’2” in the high jump, 146’ in the discus and 45’2” in the shot put.
Personal: Plans to major in finance at Concordia … his father was a basketball player at Concordia.
