Career Bests
2020-21
Cross Country
Fall cross country season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Indoor Track & Field
Placed eighth in the 3,000 meters at the Summit League Championships with a season-best time of 8:32.21 … also finished 10th in the mile and 11th in the 5,000 meters at the Summit meet … posted a season-best mile time of 4:16.93 at the SDSU Last Chance meet … took third in the 3,000 meters at the Dakota Quad Classic … clocked a season-best time of 14:49.03 for fifth place in the 5,000 meters at the Division I Challenge … finished third in the 3,000 meters at the USD Invitational … tallied seven top-10 finishes during the season.
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Outdoor Track & Field
Finished 10th in the 10,000 meters and 14th in the 5,000 meters at the Summit League Championships … clocked 32:53.08 in his first 10,000 meter race on the track … recorded a season best of 14:33.41 in the 5,000 meters with a fifth-place finish at the Drake Relays … the time ranks ninth in USD program history for the 5,000 meters … ran on the Coyotes’ fifth-place 4xone mile relay at the Drake Relays … the relay clocked 17:06.13, which ranks fourth in program history … won the 5,000 meters at the South Dakota Challenge in 15:10.40 … recorded a season-best of 4:01.40 in the 1,500 meters at the Sioux City Relays … took third in the 5,000 meters at the USD Early Bird … captured one event title and tallied five top-10 finishes during the spring.
2019-20
Cross Country
Summit League Newcomer of the Championship … earned all-Summit League second team honors … placed 10th at the Summit League Championships in 25:13.8 … one of six men to race in all seven meets … led the Coyotes at the first two meets of the season and was the second Coyote across the line in the last five meets of the year … posted a season-best 8,000-meter time of 24:57.0 at the Bradley Pink Classic for 27th place … it marked the seventh-fastest time in the league this season … also recorded the league’s 10th-fastest 6,000-meter time with an 18:50.0 clocking at the NDSU Bison Open … took 16th at the Augustana Twilight … clocked 25:34.1 for 8,000-meters at the Chile Pepper Festival … took 34th at Nebraska’s Woody Greeno Invitational … member of the Coyotes’ squad at the NCAA Midwest Regional, finishing in 90th place with a 10,000-meter time of 32:46.7.
Indoor Track & Field
Placed fourth in both the 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters at the Summit League Championships … clocked a season-best 8:28.06 for 3,000 meters and 14:44.08 for 5,000 meters at the league meet … also finished ninth in the mile at the Summit League Championships with a time of 4:19.10 … moved to eighth on the Coyote top-10 list for the 3,000-meter run with the 8:28.06 clocking … recorded a season-best of 14:36.48 for 5,000 meters at the Iowa State Classic … moved to eighth on the Coyote top-10 list for the 5,000-meter run with the 14:36.48 clocking … notched a season-best mile time of 4:13.47 at the Nebraska Tune-Up with fifth-place finish … took fourth in the 3,000 meters in 8:35.96 at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … finished fourth in the mile and fifth in the 3,000 meters at the Adidas Classic … tallied nine top-10 finishes during the season.
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Outdoor Track & Field
Season cancelled by NCAA and The Summit League due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Prep
A two-time all-state honoree on the cross country course ... finished runner-up in 15:44 at the 2018 Missouri Class 4 Championships ... clocked a personal best of 15:11 for 5,000 meters during his senior cross country season ... broke the Cartage High School record for 3,200 meters as a senior after clocking 9:13.2 ... placed second in the 3,200 meters and third in the 1,600 meters at the 2019 Missouri Class 5 Championships ... recorded a personal best of 4:17.5 for the 1,600 meters at the state meet ... also finished with a time of 9:18.1 in the 3,200 meters at the state meet ... improved from his seventh-place finish in the 3,200 as a junior ... helped Carthage High School capture a Missouri Class 4 title in 2018.
Personal
Son of Charlotte Rice and Zach Whitehead ... business major.
