Longwood University Athletics

Personal Best:
6K: 20:26.4 (Virginia Tech Invitational 8/31/2018)
8K: 28:31 (James Madison Invitational 9/8/2018)
10K: 35:48.7 (NCAA Southeast Regional 11/9/2018)

High School: A three-year letterwinner in cross country and two-year letterwinner in both indoor and outdoor track at James River High School…an all-region cross country runner as a senior…won the regional championship in the 4x800m relay in outdoor track in 2017…helped that relay team run a school-record 8:26…top 5K time came as a senior when he ran a 17:21…experienced immense growth in long-distance running during his high school career, turning a 31:55 5K as a freshman into an 18:56 as a sophomore, 18:05 as a junior and finally 17:21 as a senior…also excelled in the short and middle distances, breaking the minute-mark with a 0:56 400m as a senior…ran a personal-best 800 of 2:08, a 1,600 of 4:54 and a 3,200 of 10:51 as a senior…improved his times in every one of those races during his senior year…maintained a GPA of 3.9+ during his high school career…inducted into the National Honor Society…served a photo editor of his high school yearbook staff…also a percussionist in his school’s concert band…volunteered at a local, nonprofit theater…also volunteered at Rise Against Hunger and The Buchanan Carnival.
 
Personal: Son of Sky and Dianne Preece…has a brother, Grayson…plans to major in photography and minor in creative writing…post-college aspirations are to become a photographer for a magazine,  including National Geographic or Runner’s World.