VERONA, WISCONSIN, November 23 — Although winning an NCAA championship for the first time is pretty darn memorable, the second is doubtless oh-so-much better.
Just ask Graham Blanks or Ed Eyestone, who were very happy men late Saturday morning after the Harvard senior gutted out another individual title and the BYU coach watched his team get out fast, build a huge lead and then hang on for its second title in 6 years.
Harvard’s Blanks had every meter of the 10,000 on the Zimmer course etched in his brain by plotting it beforehand on an app, not to mention racing on it four previous times; so he just knew intuitively when to make his ultimately decisive move.
That seemingly sudden burst with just over 1K remaining propelled the Georgia native into a quick lead over New Mexico’s Habtom Samuel that he gradually lengthened on the long uphill climb to the finish before he crossed in a course record 28:37.2. It was more than enough to hold off Samuel (28:38.9), who ran the second 5K with his left foot shoeless and bloodied by spike wounds but still gutted his way to the line.
It was a repeat of last year’s race in which Blanks and Samuel went 1-2 and Blanks became the first Harvard man — indeed, the first Ivy Leaguer — to win a hill-and-dale crown. But it was a reversal of the Pre-Nats meet results from 5 weeks earlier on the same course, albeit over the shorter 8K route. Then, Samuel defeated Blanks in the Harvard senior’s debut in the former’s self-described “rust-buster” following some downtime after his 9th in the Olympic 5K. Blanks now is the 14th man to win multiple titles (and 13th to successfully defend a title).
As Blanks emphasized post-race, it was an incredibly talented field and he was effusive in praising his rivals. Unheralded Furman senior Dylan Schubert was aiming for a top 10 finish but hung in with the leaders and surprised even himself with his 3rd in 28:39.6. Yaseen Abdalla of Arkansas was 4th (28:41.5) and Brian Musau of Oklahoma State 5th in 28:44.9. Bolstering Blanks’s view, the rest of the top 20 was a virtual who’s who of college distance excellence, with, for example, the likes of BYU’s Casey Clinger in 6th, North Carolina’s Parker Wolfe and Ethan Strand in 7th and 8th, Villanova’s Liam Murphy in 9th and Iowa State’s Said Mechaal in 10th.
“It’s unbelievable how good these guys are,” said Blanks. “It’s all a little surreal. Like, at the end of the day, I’ve worked really, really hard for this. It’s not been easy. It’s been a lot of sacrifice, a lot of pain, but, you know, for these moments it’s worth it.”
No one broke away for any significant edge on the pack, with a large lead group heavily populated by BYU through 3K, with Blanks nestled in around 16th. But by 4K he was in 8th and at the halfway mark, he went through in 2nd and in good position in 14:31, just a tick behind Texas Tech’s Ernest Cheruiyot and a hair ahead of Arkansas’s Patrick Kiprop. Samuel had lost his shoe and dropped 9 places during the fifth kilometer but at the 5K post he’d regained 21 places. He said that running with one shoe was his only option as he felt the pace was then so quick he’d lose too many places. Clinger and Wolfe kinda/sorta headed the pack for a K but by 9K it was the eventual top 2 running in those places until Blanks surged and in the final 80 or so meters was able to look back with confidence.
Speaking of the course’s hills, Blanks opined that “some guys, don’t want to run. I’m gonna sprint up, I mean, you want to crush these guys when it hurts the most. And once you get that gap, just run as hard as you can. I wasn’t sure if my legs were going give me the line, but that’s what it takes. If I didn’t do that, who knows what would have happened?”
He talked of learning to run to his strengths. “With that 1K to go type of thing, that’s what I really work on, [like] just choosing the most difficult, most impossible move. That’s what I’m always trying to do. Hopefully it’s impossible for everyone else, they can’t hang with you.”
Coach Eyestone, ever the planner and tactician, said his runners executed their race strategy pretty much as he wanted as the Cougars lived up to their No. 1 ranking and took their second-ever team title with 124 points off an adjusted 6-12-28-35-43 finish. It was good enough to hold off an onrushing Iowa State squad, which scored 137 (10-21-31-33-42) in bidding for its third championship and first since ’94. Frosh Joash Ruto fell or was clipped near 4K but still placed 34th, leaving Iowa State coach Jeremy Sudbury with some what-ifs to ponder.
“Who knows if that would have been a difference today,” Sudbury said, “but we are really happy with the overall season. But we never really panic and try to move through the field.”
Arkansas, ranked No. 3 coming in, took that place with 104 points. Host Wisconsin, buoyed by the huge crowd and four-time Big 10 champ Bob Liking’s 16th-place, was 4th at 212 and Northern Arizona, with its remarkable eleventh consecutive top-5 finish, tallied 237 in the 31-team field. (Continued below)
Eyestone’s Pizza Champions
Asked about the weather conditions, BYU Coach Ed Eyestone said he would have liked it to be “a little more messy,” akin to when his team won at Terre Haute.
“Back in 2019, it was raining sideways and it was kind of an upset over NAU. So, we were hoping for the last condition, but we’re from Utah, and this type of temperature is not intimidating even a little bit, so we just kind of coated their legs and arms with olive oil, just a little extra layer of insulation. They came home and smelled like a pizza when they crossed the finish line.”
BYU held the lead wire-to-wire, with Clinger never out of the lead pack and BYU’s first 4 in the top 17 and all 7 in the top 41 just 1K into the race. By 4K, the Cougars had only 47 points and 4 in the top 12 but the field began to come back a bit, especially No. 4-ranked Iowa State, which went from 115 points behind BYU at 5K to inching (or is it metering?) it back to a scant 13-point margin at the end.
“We wanted all seven to get out, though I didn’t anticipate us getting out that well. I think it helped that the first K was kind of conservative,” Eyestone said. “Well, suddenly we’ve got six or seven guys in the top 50 and early on the splits were nice but a little disconcerting, because when you have a 65-point lead early on, it’s going to look bad if you don’t move on from that.
“You also wonder, ‘Did we go out too hard?’ The pace was moderate, so just be patient. Don’t screw things up. And battle to the finish. That was the plan.”
Eyestone wanted Clinger to be in the hunt and mix it up with the best of them. “He was our low stick and then 2–7 were interchangeable. Once you get the lead you go from being the hunter to being the hunted,” he said. “I’m really proud of the way they manned up and got it done.”
Those darn deuces really were the order of the day for BYU as the men’s win came immediately after their women’s title, which meant Eyestone and women’s coach Diljeet Taylor were “forced” to lug two trophies on their flight back to Salt Lake. Maintaining the theme of two, for what it’s worth, Eyestone himself was a two-time Olympian and his most recent NCAA cross star, Conner Mantz, won consecutive XC titles in the spring and fall of 2021, the pandemic-induced year of two NCAA meets.
NCAA XC MEN’S RESULTS
Verona, Wisconsin, November 23 —
Teams
(adjusted places)
| 1. BYU | 6–12–28–35–43 (54–69) | 124 |
| 2. Iowa State | 10–21–31–33–42 (79–80) | 137 |
| 3. Arkansas | 4–19–20–48–111 (156–192) | 202 |
| 4. Wisconsin | 16–39–46–51–60 (72–125) | 212 |
| 5. Northern Arizona | 18–34–52–58–75 (106–128) | 237 |
6. North Carolina 246; 7. Wake Forest 256; 8. Oklahoma State 256; 9. New Mexico 272; 10. Notre Dame 337; 11. Syracuse 342; 12. Stanford 356; 13. Cal Baptist 376; 14. Oregon 387; 15. Villanova 416; 16. Washington 436; 17. Furman 462; 18. Alabama 467; 19. Colorado 477; 20. Butler 481; 21. Virginia 487; 22. Utah State 554; 23. Georgetown 571; 24. Princeton 587; 25. Mississippi 593; 26. Virginia Tech 597; 27. Harvard 598; 28. Tulane 691; 29. Eastern Kentucky 698; 30. Wyoming 707; 31. Tulsa 754.
Individuals
†=not in team scoring
10,000m (255 started, 252 finished)
| 1. Graham Blanks | (Harv) | 28:37.2 |
| 2. **Habtom Samuel’ | (NM-Eri) | 28:38.9 |
| 3. Dylan Schubert | (Furm) | 28:39.6 |
| 4. Yaseen Abdalla | (Ar) | 28:41.5 |
| 5. **Brian Musau’ | (OkSt-Ken) | 28:44.9 |
| 6. Casey Clinger | (BYU) | 28:45.1 |
| 7. Parker Wolfe | (NC) | 28:50.2 |
| 8. Ethan Strand | (NC) | 28:53.0 |
| 9. Liam Murphy | (Vill) | 28:55.7 |
| 10. Said Mechaal’ | (IaSt-Spa) | 28:59.8 |
| 11. **Denis Kipngetich’ | (OkSt-Ken) | 29:00.4 |
| 12. Creed Thompson | (BYU) | 29:01.5 |
| 13. *Gary Martin | (Va) | 29:02.3 |
| 14. **George Couttie’ | (VaT-GB) | 29:07.4 |
| 15. *Marco Langon | (Vill) | 29:08.8 |
| 16. Bob Liking | (Wi) | 29:09.2 |
| 17. **William Zegarski | (But) | 29:09.8 |
| 18. David Mullarkey’ | (NnAz-GB) | 29:11.9 |
| 19. †***Allan Kiplagat’ | (MTn-Ken) | 29:12.8 |
| 20. Kirami Yego’ | (Ar-Ken) | 29:13.7 |
| 21. Patrick Kiprop’ | (Ar-Ken) | 29:15.7 |
| 22. †Matt Strangio | (Port) | 29:16.5 |
| 23. Sanele Masondo’ | (IaSt-SA) | 29:16.8 |
| 24. **Izaiah Steury | (NDm) | 29:17.1 |
| 25. Camren Todd | (UtSt) | 29:17.4 |
| 26. ***Zouhair Redouane’ | (CalB-Mor) | 29:18.8 |
| 27. †Dylan Throop | (Penn) | 29:19.6 |
| 28. *Sam Lawler | (Syr) | 29:20.6 |
| 29. **Aiden Smith | (Or) | 29:20.9 |
| 30. **Dean Casey | (Co) | 29:21.1 |
| 31. Joey Nokes | (BYU) | 29:21.5 |
| 32. **Charlie Sprott | (WF) | 29:21.6 |
| 33. **Valentin Soca’ | (CalB-Uru) | 29:22.0 |
| 34. ***Joash Ruto’ | (IaSt-Ken) | 29:22.4 |
| 35. ***Collins Kiprotich’ | (NM-Ken) | 29:22.6 |
| 36. †***Evans Kurui’ | (WaSt-Ken) | 29:23.8 |
| 37. ***Robin Kwemoi Bera’ | (IaSt-Ken) | 29:23.9 |
| 38. Santiago Prosser | (NnAz) | 29:24.7 |
| 39. *Lucas Bons | (BYU) | 29:24.9 |
| 40. **Evans Kiplagat’ | (NM-Ken) | 29:25.0 |
| 41. ***Dismus Lokira’ | (Al-Ken) | 29:25.3 |
| 42. Carson Williams | (Furm) | 29:26.4 |
| 43. †**Douglas Buckeridge | (Pur) | 29:27.6 |
| 44. †**Carson Noecker | (SDSt) | 29:29.7 |
| 45. Adam Spencer’ | (Wi-Aus) | 29:30.1 |
| 46. **Ethan Coleman | (NDm) | 29:30.6 |
| 47. ***JoJo Jourdon | (WF) | 29:30.7 |
| 48. †Derek Amicon | (Corn) | 29:31.0 |
| 49. Gable Sieperda | (IaSt) | 29:31.7 |
| 50. *Davin Thompson | (BYU) | 29:33.6 |
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| 51. Victor Kiprop’ | (Al-Ken) | 29:33.9 |
| 52. *Colton Sands | (NC) | 29:34.1 |
| 53. **Micah Wilson | (Wi) | 29:34.4 |
| 54. Nathan Green | (Wa) | 29:34.5 |
| 55. *Ben Shearer | (Ar) | 29:34.6 |
| 56. **Joseph O’Brien | (WF) | 29:34.7 |
| 57. *Shane Brosnan’ | (Harv-Ire) | 29:35.8 |
| 58. ***Matan Ivri’ | (Wi-Isr) | 29:36.2 |
| 59. †Wil Smith | (Gonz) | 29:36.4 |
| 60. Corey Gorgas | (NnAz) | 29:36.5 |
| 61. Luke Tewalt | (WF) | 29:36.7 |
| 62. **James Corrigan | (BYU) | 29:38.4 |
| 63. **Lex Young | (Stan) | 29:38.7 |
| 64. *Myles Hogan | (Prin) | 29:38.9 |
| 65. Abel Teffra | (Gtn) | 29:39.1 |
| 66. †***Nickson Chebii’ | (Aub-Ken) | 29:39.6 |
| 67. *Colin Sahlman | (NnAz) | 29:40.3 |
| 68. *Austin Gabay | (But) | 29:40.4 |
| 69. ***Christian de Vaal’ | (Wi-NZ) | 29:40.5 |
| 70. Victor Shitsama’ | (OkSt-Ken) | 29:41.0 |
| 71. *Assaf Harari’ | (Syr-Isr) | 29:41.4 |
| 72. Cole Sprout | (Stan) | 29:41.9 |
| 73. †***Bismack Kipchirchir | (Akr) | 29:43.3 |
| 74. ***Simeon Birnbaum | (Or) | 29:43.4 |
| 75. ***Dennis Kipruto’ | (Al-Ken) | 29:43.5 |
| 76. Alex Comerford | (Syr) | 29:43.7 |
| 77. *Nicholas Bendtsen | (Prin) | 29:44.5 |
| 78. *Nolan Topper | (Stan) | 29:45.8 |
| 79. Aidan Troutner | (BYU) | 29:46.6 |
| 80. †**Riley Hough | (MiSt) | 29:47.2 |
| 81. Aiden Britt | (Ms) | 29:47.8 |
| 82. *Will Coogan | (NC) | 29:47.9 |
| 83. **Johnny Livingstone | (Wi) | 29:48.4 |
| 84. **Tyrone Gorze | (Wa) | 29:48.6 |
| 85. ***Bernard Cheruiyot’ | (Tul-Ken) | 29:49.1 |
| 86. **Justin Keyes | (NnAz) | 29:49.9 |
| 87. †**Abraham Chelangam’ | (OR-Uga) | 29:50.6 |
| 88. †Ryan Kinnane | (Aub) | 29:50.7 |
| 89. †Lachlan Wellington’ | (Iona-GB) | 29:50.9 |
| 90. ***Drew Griffith | (NDm) | 29:51.1 |
| 91. ***Benne Anderson’ | (Syr-Ger) | 29:51.6 |
| 92. **Leo Young | (Stan) | 29:51.7 |
| 93. **Devan Kipyego | (IaSt) | 29:51.9 |
| 94. Timothy Sindt | (IaSt) | 29:52.4 |
| 95. Daniel Abdala | (CalB) | 29:52.8 |
| 96. †William Sinclair | (IlSt) | 29:53.0 |
| 97. †Luke Marsanskis | (Me) | 29:54.1 |
| 98. Rikus Van Niekerk’ | (NM-SA) | 29:54.5 |
| 99. **Daelen Ackley | (NDm) | 29:55.5 |
| 100. **Rocky Hansen | (WF) | 29:55.7 |
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| 101. †Joe Hudson | (Boise) | 29:56.3 |
| 102. †Jacob Pyeatt | (ArSt) | 29:56.5 |
| 103. **Evan Jenkins | (Wa) | 29:56.8 |
| 104. †***Thobias Cheruiyot’ | (Ok-Ken) | 29:57.0 |
| 105. **Lukas Haug | (Co) | 29:57.0 |
| 106. **Taha Er Raouy’ | (EnKy-Mor) | 29:57.4 |
| 107. ***Laban Kipkemboi’ | (OkSt-Ken) | 29:57.5 |
| 108. Florian LePallec’ | (But-Fra) | 29:57.8 |
| 109. *Will Anthony’ | (Va-NZ) | 29:58.4 |
| 110. **Adisu Guadia’ | (OkSt-Isr) | 29:58.5 |
| 111. †*Matt Rankin | (Iona) | 29:58.7 |
| 112. ***Paul Bergeron | (Stan) | 29:58.9 |
| 113. Jack Jennings | (Tul) | 29:59.2 |
| 114. **Luke Ondracek | (Gtn) | 29:59.3 |
| 115. **Pedro Marin’ | (CalB-Col) | 29:59.3 |
| 116. Evan Dorenkamp | (Or) | 29:59.3 |
| 117. Leo Daschbach | (Wa) | 29:59.8 |
| 118. Elliott Cook | (Or) | 30:00.2 |
| 119. *Jacob White | (Wy) | 30:00.4 |
| 120. *Ryker Holtzen | (Wy) | 30:01.3 |
| 121. Ryan Schoppe | (OkSt) | 30:01.6 |
| 122. †Brett Gardner | (NCSt) | 30:01.7 |
| 123. James Dunne | (Gtn) | 30:02.4 |
| 124. Quincy Norman | (Or) | 30:02.6 |
| 125. ***Bailey Habler | (Vill) | 30:02.9 |
| 126. †*Peter Visser | (Web) | 30:03.8 |
| 127. **Isaiah Givens | (Co) | 30:04.9 |
| 128. †Isaac Alonzo | (Tx) | 30:05.2 |
| 129. ***Ford Washburn | (NnAz) | 30:05.3 |
| 130. *Shay McEvoy’ | (Tuls-Ire) | 30:06.1 |
| 131. †***Ernest Cheruiyot’ | (TxT-Ken) | 30:06.2 |
| 132. *Evan Thornton-Sherman | (Ms) | 30:06.5 |
| 133. Spencer Nelson | (UtSt) | 30:06.7 |
| 134. *Robert DiDonato | (Stan) | 30:06.7 |
| 135. †*MacCallum Rowe | (LaS) | 30:07.6 |
| 136. **Timothy Chesondin’ | (Ar-Ken) | 30:08.3 |
| 137. †Sawyer Dagan | (Clem) | 30:09.4 |
| 138. †Baidy Ba | (Kent) | 30:09.7 |
| 139. ***Connor Ackley | (Syr) | 30:09.9 |
| 140. *Justin Wachtel | (Va) | 30:10.1 |
| 141. *Logan Garnica | (UtSt) | 30:10.4 |
| 142. *Patrick Anderson | (NC) | 30:11.5 |
| 143. **Cj Singleton | (NDm) | 30:11.7 |
| 144. **Aidan Ross | (WF) | 30:12.8 |
| 145. ***Colin Eckerman | (Furm) | 30:13.0 |
| 146. †***Geoffrey Kirwa’ | (Louisv-Ken) | 30:13.1 |
| 147. Ethan Wechsler | (Syr) | 30:13.3 |
| 148. ***Vincent Chirchir’ | (NM-Ken) | 30:13.5 |
| 149. *Toby Gillen’ | (Ms-Aus) | 30:13.9 |
| 150. ***CJ Sullivan | (Vill) | 30:14.6 |
| — | ||
| 151. *Mohammed Jouhari’ | (EnKy-Mor) | 30:15.0 |
| 152. *Nathan Mountain | (Va) | 30:15.9 |
| 153. †***Dominic Kiptum | (AMCC) | 30:16.3 |
| 154. Rowen Ellenberg | (Wi) | 30:16.9 |
| 155. **Benjamin Balazs | (Or) | 30:17.1 |
| 156. Chris McLeod’ | (Tuls-GB) | 30:18.1 |
| 157. †**Brian DiCola | (PennSt) | 30:19.2 |
| 158. *Cael Grotenhuis | (NnAz) | 30:19.8 |
| 159. Simon Kelati | (Co) | 30:20.4 |
| 160. **James Overberg | (Co) | 30:20.9 |
| 161. Illia Kunin’ | (Tul-Ukr) | 30:21.0 |
| 162. *Tomas Vega | (EnKy) | 30:21.6 |
| 163. Carter Solomon | (NDm) | 30:22.6 |
| 164. Ronan McMahon-Staggs’ | (Wa-Ire) | 30:23.2 |
| 165. ***Nicholas Kipchirchir | (VaT) | 30:24.5 |
| 166. *Daniel O’Brien | (Prin) | 30:24.8 |
| 167. Jaden Forester | (Tuls) | 30:24.9 |
| 168. **Gavin Ehlers | (WF) | 30:25.4 |
| 169. **Benjamin Reynolds | (VaT) | 30:26.4 |
| 170. ***Joshua McKee | (UtSt) | 30:27.0 |
| 171. ***Joe Sapone | (NC) | 30:27.3 |
| 172. †***Dominic Serem’ | (Tol-Ken) | 30:28.1 |
| 173. Robert Cozean | (NDm) | 30:28.2 |
| 174. Elyas Ayyoub’ | (Ms-SA) | 30:28.5 |
| 175. ***William Winter | (VaT) | 30:29.3 |
| 176. **Birhanu Harriman | (Gtn) | 30:30.1 |
| 177. ***Gabriel Guzman’ | (CalB-Ven) | 30:30.3 |
| 178. Wes Porter | (Va) | 30:31.0 |
| 179. Jack Eliason | (Va) | 30:31.2 |
| 180. ***Christopher Knight | (Furm) | 30:31.3 |
| 181. Adam Trafecanty | (CalB) | 30:32.4 |
| 182. Benjamin Bayless | (Ms) | 30:32.7 |
| 183. Luke Henseler | (But) | 30:33.2 |
| 184. Gus McIntyre | (Wy) | 30:34.9 |
| 185. Evan Guzman | (Furm) | 30:36.9 |
| 186. *Andrew Jones | (Va) | 30:37.1 |
| 187. †***Collins Kiprop Kipngok’ | (Ky-Ken) | 30:38.6 |
| 188. †Luke Johnson | (Penn) | 30:39.3 |
| 189. †Lars Mitchel | (CoSt) | 30:40.0 |
| 190. **Brian Masai’ | (Ar-Ken) | 30:40.7 |
| 191. **Lukas Kiprop’ | (NM-Ken) | 30:41.8 |
| 192. **Sam Burgess | (Harv) | 30:41.9 |
| 193. Hillary Cheruiyot’ | (Al-Ken) | 30:43.1 |
| 194. **Wilson Georges | (Co) | 30:43.7 |
| 195. *Jackson Shorten | (Prin) | 30:44.2 |
| 196. Hudson Hurst | (Al) | 30:44.7 |
| 197. *Mario Priego | (EnKy) | 30:45.7 |
| 198. ***Sean Byrnes | (But) | 30:45.8 |
| 199. †*Nathan Davis | (Army) | 30:46.2 |
| 200. *Declan Rymer | (VaT) | 30:47.4 |
| — | ||
| 201. *Devon Comber | (Vill) | 30:47.8 |
| 202. ***Weston Brown | (Prin) | 30:50.3 |
| 203. *LJ Floyd | (UtSt) | 30:51.6 |
| 204. *Harrison Witt | (Prin) | 30:52.0 |
| 205. Brennan Benson | (UtSt) | 30:52.4 |
| 206. *Connor McCormick | (Prin) | 30:52.8 |
| 207. ***Jacob Laney | (NC) | 30:55.2 |
| 208. **Charlie North | (Gtn) | 30:56.0 |
| 209. Martin Kovacech | (But) | 30:56.9 |
| 210. ***Tayson Echohawk | (Or) | 30:57.9 |
| 211. Dylan Van Der Hock | (Wy) | 30:58.8 |
| 212. ***Nathan Neil | (Wa) | 30:58.9 |
| 213. ***Joseph McKee | (UtSt) | 30:59.6 |
| 214. Mason Norman | (Wy) | 31:00.8 |
| 215. Derek Fearon | (Gtn) | 31:03.8 |
| 216. Sam Hubert | (VaT) | 31:05.9 |
| 217. †*Christopher Middleton-Pearson | (Tn) | 31:07.7 |
| 218. *Thomas Boyden | (Stan) | 31:08.0 |
| 219. ***Ben Brown | (Tuls) | 31:08.3 |
| 220. Wondu Summa | (Tul) | 31:08.8 |
| 221. **Grady Rauba | (Co) | 31:09.4 |
| 222. *Fouad Messaoudi’ | (OkSt-Mor) | 31:10.6 |
| 223. †Griffin Neal | (IncW) | 31:10.7 |
| 224. *Sean Donoghue’ | (Vill-Ire) | 31:11.1 |
| 225. *Victor Rosas | (CalB) | 31:11.6 |
| 226. **David Slapak | (But) | 31:11.8 |
| 227. Nicholas Goldstein | (Furm) | 31:14.4 |
| 228. **Luke Taylor | (Furm) | 31:15.3 |
| 229. *Reuben Reina | (Ar) | 31:16.0 |
| 230. *German Vega’ | (EnKy-Arg) | 31:17.0 |
| 231. Ben Rosa | (Harv) | 31:17.6 |
| 232. Joe Ewing’ | (Harv-GB) | 31:22.3 |
| 233. Trevor Stephen | (Wy) | 31:24.4 |
| 234. ***Corné De Fouw’ | (NM-SA) | 31:25.4 |
| 235. Noah Ward | (Harv) | 31:27.7 |
| 236. **Jamar Distel | (Wa) | 31:27.8 |
| 237. *Oisin Spillane | (Tuls) | 31:32.0 |
| 238. Jack Meijer | (Ms) | 31:35.2 |
| 239. *Gabe Scales | (Ms) | 31:36.3 |
| 240. Jack Hawes | (Al) | 31:39.1 |
| 241. ***Evan Trapp | (Al) | 31:41.2 |
| 242. Arnav Tikhe | (VaT) | 31:46.3 |
| 243. *Luke Lambert | (Tuls) | 31:46.8 |
| 244. ***Nick Sullivan | (Vill) | 31:47.6 |
| 245. ***Will Brunner | (Harv) | 31:47.8 |
| 246. Jordan Bendura | (Tul) | 31:49.6 |
| 247. *Kamari Miller | (Syr) | 31:50.2 |
| 248. Ryan Adkins | (Tul) | 31:52.7 |
| 249. ***Luke Birdseye | (Tuls) | 32:12.6 |
| 250. *Tucker Poshard | (Tul) | 32:31.2 |
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| 251. *Lucas Guerra | (Gtn) | 32:32.6 |
| 252. ***Cesc Boix’ | (EnKy-Spa) | 32:49.3 |
… dnf—***Solomon Kipchoge’ (TxT-Ken), ***Justine Kipkoech’ (EnKy-Ken), Asefa Wetzel (Wy).
