Career Bests
2017-18
Cross Country
Placed 18th at the Summit League Championships with a personal best time of 25:51.44 … finished 137th at the NCAA Midwest Regional in a time of 31:26.14 for 10,000 meters … scored for the Coyotes at all six meets … the second Coyote across the line at the prestigious Roy Griak Invitational, clocking 26:58.1 for 65th … placed eighth at the Augustana Twilight and took 26th at the Woody Greeno Invitational.
Indoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors as a member of the Coyotes’ third-place distance medley relay which clocked 10:35.08 … ran the 1,600-meter leg of the relay … placed eighth in the 5,000 meters at the Summit League Championships with a season-best time of 15:06.36 … recorded a season best mile in 4:21.98 at the Nebraska Tune-Up … placed third in the mile and fifth in the 3,000 meters at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … notched a season best of 8:50.07 for 3,000 meters after finishing fourth at the Hawkeye Invitational … collected seven top-10 finishes during the season.
Outdoor Track & Field
Placed sixth in the 10,000 meters in 32:27.47 at the Summit League Championships … also took ninth in the 5,000 meters at the league meet with a time of 15:54.22 … placed third in the 5,000 meters with a season-best time of 15:09.42 at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays … finished 19th in the 10,000 meters at the Drake Relays with a season-best clocking of 31:59.86 … took second at the South Dakota Invitational in the 5,000 meters … recorded six top-10 finishes during the season.
Prep
Helped the Papermakers captured a Wisconsin Division I state cross country title in 2015 with a 19th-place finish individually ... added a 20th-place finish as a senior ... ran a leg of Kimberly High School's 4x800-meter relay which took second place at the 2017 Wisconsin State Track & Field Meet, helping the team capture the Division I state title ... a first-team all-Fox Valley Association honoree ... holds personal bests of 15:53 for 5,000 meters on the cross country course, 4:25 for 1,600 meters and 9:39 for 3,200 meters ... academic all-state honoree.
Personal
Son of Brad and Penny Benz ... Kinesiology and sport science major.
