2025 Men's Cross Country Roster
Biography
Achievements/Awards
- NCAA Championships 7th Place Team Finish, 2025
- NCAA DII Cross Country USTFCCCA All-Region, 2025
- NCAA Championships 8th Place Team Finish, 2023
- RMAC First Team Academic All Conference, 2023
- NCAA Championships 3rd Place Team Finish, 2022
- NCAA Championships 10th Place Team Finish, 2021
Year-by-yearÂ
- 2025 |Â Vance competed in four different meets his graduate season. Vance's best 8k came from the 18th Annual UCCS Rust-Buster, racing a 25:07 to garner a 3rd place finish, integral to the team winning that meet. Vance's best race of the year came from the Regional race, racing a 31:08 10k to finish 22nd in the region. Vance concluded his career with a 32:44 10k at nationals, finishing 7th in the nation as a team, the second highest in program history.Â
- 2023 | Vance competed in four meets this cross country season. He began by taking first place in the 7.08k at the CU Time Trials followed by a 9th place at the Lewis Crossover with a time of 24:12.6 (personal best) in the 8k. He ran a 31:15.1 in the 10k at NCAA Regionals and finished the season at NCAA Championships taking 44th place in the 10k with a time of 30:27.0 (personal best).Â
- 2022 | Set a personal record in the 8k at the Lewis Crossover... ran a personal best at Nationals in the 10,000m helping his team to a third place finish.Â
- 2021 | Vance claimed 3rd at the JK Gold Classic with a time of 18:04.4 in the 6k to help his team to victory. He helped his team to a third place finish at Regionals in the 10k. Competed at the National Championships pushing his team to a 10th place finish.Â
- 2020 | Placed 8th at the 2020 Colorado Springs XC Open running 27:18.3 for the 8k… At the RMAC Cross Country Championships, Alex received all conference honors placing 23rd and running a time of 25:36.9 in the 8k ... Earned second-team all-conference honors
Beyond the JerseyÂ
INSPIRATIONAL PERSON OR QUOTE & WHY |Â "For awhile we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person - though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die - but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God." -Romans 5:6-9
OUTSIDE OF SPORTS | "Eating at the caf."
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE CCU | "I chose CCU because of the coaches, the team culture, and the opportunity to compete at a high level in the RMAC. What I have come to appreciate about CCU is the university's commitment to upholding Christian values and the opportunity to study the Bible in academically rigorous classes."
FAMILY TIES | "My brother Zach is a freshman on the team and my sister Jada runs cross country and track as a sophomore in high school."
POST COLLEGE DREAMS | "I am open to whatever the Lord has for me in the future, but a dream I have is to reach an unreached people group with the gospel."
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