Longwood University Athletics

Personal Best:
6K: 20:47.4 (Virginia Tech Invitational 8/31/2018)
8K: 27:50.1 (Elon Opener 8/30/2019)
10K: 35:26.1 (NCAA Southeast Regional, 11/15/2019)

High School: A three-sport athlete who lettered in cross country, track and field, and soccer at Floyd County High School…earned four letters in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track, and three letters in soccer…served as team captain of the distance running teams as a junior and senior…logged a personal-best 5K time of 17:17 as a sophomore and neared that mark again as a junior when he clocked a 17:18…ran through injury to log a senior-year best of 17:44…also ran the 1,600 and broke the five-minute mark, running a PR 4:36 as a senior…also ran a 4:43 and a 4:44 that same year…logged a 2:04 in the 800 as a senior and a sub-minute 400…an A-B honor roll student every semester of high school…inducted in the National Beta Club…attended Governor’s School for math, science and technology at Lynchburg College…volunteered for two food drives for Plenty, a local food bank… helped collect more than 500 pounds of canned good and 200 dollars in just two days during that event…also volunteered for the Seabirding Pelagic Birding Trip in Hatteras, North Carolina.
 
Personal: Son of Jared and Justine Church…has a sister, Solace, and a brother, Ocean…plans to major in environmental science with a life science concentration and minor in international studies… fostered animals for the humane society with his mother since age five, having cared for and found homes for nearly 100 cats and dogs…after college, aims to research the nesting, feeding and migratory behavior of birds and how they are affected by humans.