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2018 Men's Cross Country Roster

Michael Karls

  • Class Senior
  • Height 5-11
  • Hometown Festus, Mo.
  • High School Festus

Biography

Track Career Performance List

Career Honors:
2018 Second Team All-Patriot League
(4x800m Relay – Outdoor)
 
2017-18 Track and Field (Junior Season): Ran the second leg of Navy’s 4x800m relay team that earned Second Team All-Conference accolades at the 2018 Patriot League Outdoor Championship, clocking a season-best time of 7:34.82 … Finished third at the Army-Navy Indoor Star Meet in the 3,000m with a season-best time of 8:20.19 … Posted hist best performance in the 5,000m at the Patriot League Championship for both indoors (14:40.63) and outdoors (15:18.48) … Clocked a season-best time of 9:23.46 in the 3,000m steeplechase at the PL Outdoor Championship.

2017 Cross Country (Junior Season):

Date Meet (Distance) Time Place (Navy)
Sept. 9 Navy Invitational (8k) 25:44.3 10 of 47 (7)
Sept. 23 Roy Griak Invite (8k) 26:57.3 64 of 147 (6)
Sept. 29 Paul Short Run (8k) 24:45 87 of 359 (7)
Oct. 14 at Army-Navy Star Meet (7.6k) 24:13.0 9 of 22 (5)
Oct. 28 Patriot League Championship (8k) 25:21.1 27 of 107 (6)
Nov. 10 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional (10k) 31:42.0 59 of 180 (6)

2016-17 Track and Field (Sophomore Season): Competed in the middle distance events, taking part in the 1,000m, 1,500m, and 1-mile races during the indoor season and the 1,500m run throughout outdoors ... Clocked a season-best time of 2:35.22 at Princeton in the 1,000m ... Had season-best times of 3:59.96 (outdoor) at George Mason Spring Invite and 4:03.00 (indoor) at the Navy Invite in the 1,500m, while clocking a 4:16.43 in the 1-mile run at the Navy Open.

2016 Cross Country (Sophomore Season):
Date Meet (Distance) Time Place (Navy)
Sept. 10 Navy Invitational (8k) 28:01.53 33 of 48 (12)
Oct. 15 Army-Navy Star Meet (8k) 26:00.92 22 of 23 (12)

2015-16 Track and Field (Freshman Season): Did not compete during the season.

2015 Cross Country (Freshman Season): Did not race in varsity competitions.

High School / Personal: Four-year letterwinner in cross country at Festus High School, also lettering for four years in track and field … Garnered the 2014-15 Gatorade Missouri Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year, which was the high school's first student-athlete to bestow the honor (http://www.gatorade.com/poy/profile.aspx?id=15637) … Raced to the Class 3 Individual State Championships with a time of 15:23.80 in 2014 … Led squad to the State Championship Title in 2012 and 2014 … Earned All-Conference, All-District, and All-State honors from 2012-15 in cross country … Member of the National Honor Society … Valedictorian of the Class of 2015 … Son of Mike and Shana Karls.
 
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Historical Player Information

  • 2015Freshman

    5'11"
  • 2016Sophomore

    5'11"
  • 2017Junior

    5'11"
  • 2018Senior

    5'11"