Tanner Bailey set a new personal best at the Queen City Invitational, leading College of the Ozarks to a fourth-place team finish with a second-place individual finish. Bailey recorded a time of 25:08 in the 8,000-meter to finish just behind an NCAA Division II runner who won the meet. The native of Piedmont, Oklahoma set his new personal best in his first race of his senior season for Ozarks.
Nominees: Jonathan Avila, Mid-America Christian University; Tanner Bailey, College of the Ozarks; Aaron Douglass, Bethel University