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2021 Men's Cross Country Roster

Clayton VanDyke

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Vernal, Utah
  • Highschool Uintah HS

Biography

TFRRS Profile

2021-22 - SENIOR: Cross Country -
Capped cross country career with third all-conference honor in three years ... three top-10 finishes and two top five ... placed fifth (25:29) at the Cascade Conference Championships ... 88th (26:40) at nationals | Indoor - Indoor 800m National Champion (1:50.89) ... set LC State records in the 600m (1:20.30 - Lauren McCluskey Memorial Open), 800m (1:50.29 - Whitworth Invitational), 1,000m (2:26.23 - Lauren McCluskey Memorial Open) and mile (4:07.79 - Courgar Classic Open) ... member of record-setting 4x400m relay team (3:23.66) and second-fastest (3:24.27) ... member of fifth-fastest DMR (10:16.91) | Outdoor - National Runner-Up in the outdoor 800m (1:51.10) ... defended Cascade Conference titles in 800m and 1,500m, setting a CCC record in the 1,500m (3:45.71) ... set LC State records in the 800m (1:49.43 - OSU High Performance Meet) and 1,500m (3:45.71 - Cascade Conference Championships) ... second-fastest 3,000m in program history (8:44.55) at the Sam Adams Classic ... member of fastest 4x400m relay in school history (3:21.08) to help team finish second at CCC meet ... second-fastest 4x800m relay (7:46.52) ... first Warrior to win back-to-back NAIA National Athlete of the Week honors

NAIA National Champion: Indoor 800m
NAIA All-American: Indoor 800m (1st Place), Outdoor 800m (2nd Place)
CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-American
Cascade Conference Male Track and Field Athlete of the Year
Cascade Conference Male Co-Scholar Athlete of the Year
USTFCCCA West Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
Cascade Conference Champion: 800m and 1,500m
Cascade Conference Men's Track Athlete of the Meet
All-Cascade Cascade Conference: Cross Country (5th Place), 800m (1st Place), 1,500m (1st Place), 4x400m Relay (2nd Place)
LCSPYs Warrior of the Year
LCSPYs Male Athlete of the Year
National Qualifier: Indoor 600m, 800m, 1,000m, Mile, Outdoor 800m, 1,500m
USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete
CoSIDA Academic All-District
NAIA National Track Athlete of the Week: 1/19/22, 1/26/22
Cascade Conference Track Athlete of the Week: 1/17/22, 1/14/22, 2/7/22, 3/28/22, 5/16/22
Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete
Academic All-Cascade Conference


2020-21 - SENIOR (COVID): Indoor - Won the 800m (1:54.55), 1,000m (2:28.29) and mile (4:18.92) at the Polar Vortex Classic ... time in the 1,000m was a career-best ... had the best time in the prelims in the 1,000m (2:29.92) at the 2021 NAIA Indoor Track and Field National Championships ... finished as the National Runner-Up in the event final (2:30.55) | Cross Country - Finished third (24:49) at the conference meet to earn all-conference honors and help LC State to its first CCC team title ... placed 47th (25:37) at nationals ... finished in the top three at four of five meets, with the exception being nationals ... second at both LC State Winter Invitationals (25:28 and 25:17) ... third at the Bushnell Invitational (25:26) | Outdoor - Finished as the National Runner-Up in the 1,500m (3:54.76) ... fifth at outdoor nationals in the 800m (1:51.96) ... Cascade Conference Champion with a school, meet and facility record in the 800m (1:51.83) ... also a conference champ in the 1,500m (3:55.62) ... personal-best times in the 1,500m (3:53.48) and 5,000m (15:24.30) at the Whitworth Twilight

NAIA All-American: Indoor 1,000m (National Runner-Up), Outdoor 1,500m (National Runner-Up), 800m (5th Place)
CoSIDA Academic All-American
USTFCCCA West Region Track Athlete of the Year
Cascade Conference Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Cascade Conference Champion: 800m, 1,500m
All-Cascade Conference: Cross Country (3rd Place), 800m (1st Place), 1,500m (1st Place)
CoSIDA Academic All-District
National Qualifier: Indoor 1,000m, Outdoor 1,500m, Outdoor 800m
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
Academic All-Cascade Conference
Cascade Conference Track Athlete of the Week: 2/22/21, 4/19/21, 5/3/21

Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete

2019-20 - JUNIOR: Cross Country: Career-best 8k time of 24:23 to place 17th at the Inland Empire Championships ... time ranks seventh all-time in program history ... top non-NAIA runner at the Clask of the Inland Northwest in 12th (18:11) ... placed fourth (26:55) at the Frontier Conference Preview ... rounded out the top three (25:43) at the Frontier Conference Championships to help LC State take the team title ... finished 11th (25:10) at the NAIA Cross Country National Championships to help the Warriors finish third as a team Indoor: Won both the mile and 800m at the Jacksons/Nike Invitational where he ran a career-best 4:16.05 in the mile and qualified for indoor nationals in the 800m (1:53.97) and the mile ... won the 800m (1:53.65) at the Boise State Challenge and was a member of the winning distance medley relay (10:16.93) ... member of the 4x800m relay team that set the school record (7:55.29 at the Jacksons/Nike Invitational and the 4x400m relay team that ran a program best 3:27.33 at the Boise State Challenge ... won the prelims of the 800m at indoor nationals with a school-record time of 1:53.11 ... finished as the National Runner-Up in the 800m at indoor nationals (1:54.45)

NAIA All-American: Cross Country - 11th Place, Indoor 800m - National Runner-Up
National Qualifier: Indoor 800m, Indoor Mile
All-Frontier Conference (3rd Place)
Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete - Cross Country/Track & Field
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
Frontier Conference Runner of the Week (XC) - 9/2/19


PREVIOUS SCHOOL: Ran two years of cross country and track at the College of Southern Idaho ... placed sixth at NJCAA Cross Country Nationals in 2017 and fifth in 2018 ... six-time national qualifier ... five-time All-American ... 4x800m National Champion in 2018 ... four-time Academic All-American

HIGH SCHOOL: Prepped at Uintah HS ... placed third at State in SMR 

PERSONAL: Born May 20, 1999 to Erin and Tammi VanDyke ... has three siblings: Makay, Brenden and Alaina ... majoring in Graphic Communications

Historical Player Information

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  • 2020Senior

  • 2021Senior