2015 Men's Cross Country Roster
Biography
TFRRS Profile
Season-by-Season Statistics
2015 | 2014 (DNC) | 2013 | 2012
2015 (Senior): Returned from a year off, was one of Elizabethtown's top runners...One of five to compete in eight of the nine meets for the Blue Jays...Four top-ten performances...Second overall at the Blue Jay Alumni Challenge on Sept. 12...Placed 34th out of 534 at the Geneseo Mike Woods Invitational on Oct. 3...Ran his 8k PR of 25:03.90 two weeks later at the Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle on Oct. 17 where he placed tenth overall...Landmark Conference runner-up at the championship meet behind teammate Zach Trama...All-Landmark First Team...Took seventh at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional, his first all-region performance...Ran 25:30.1 and placed 94th at the NCAA Championships to help E-town to a 22nd-place team finish...Blue Jays' representative on the Landmark Conference All-Sportsmanship Team...Landmark Fall Academic Honor Roll.
2014 (Junior): Did not compete.
2013 (Sophomore): Turned in another good year, finishing with two top 5 finishes...Started his 2013 season as the individual winner at Gettysburg...Paced the field with a 16:25.40...Set a new PR in a 6k race at Shippensburg with his time of 19:30, which placed him 11th overall out of 125 runners...Finished fifth at the Middle Atlantic Conference championship meet for his second straight All-MAC First Team performance...Ran his best 8k of the season (26:25) at the NCAA DIII Mideast Regional, where he placed 71st...MAC Fall Academic Honor Roll selection.
2012 (Freshman): Contributed right away, racing in six of seven meets...Logged two top 10 finishes, including a career-best seventh at the Dickinson Short Course Invitational on Sept. 29...Collected All-MAC First Team honors with a 10th-place finish (27:13.57) at the MAC Championships...One of five Blue Jays to finish in the top 15 at the Misericordia Cougar Classic Sept. 15...Claimed 64th place in a field of 343 competitors at the NCAA DIII Mideast Regional Nov. 10...70th at the Oberlin Inter-Regional Rumble (25:42.30).High School: Ran cross country and track at Spring Grove Area High School...Cross country team went 19-0 in 2009, his sophomore season...Selected as captain of cross country and track & field teams...York Daily Record Division I Boys' Cross Country All-Star as a sophomore and senior...During his senior XC season, Shenk finished fourth at the YAIAA meet with a time of 16:44, then went to districts and placed 37th in 17:24...He also placed 39th at the Gettysburg Invitational and ninth at Big Spring's Bulldog Invitational...Top track times: 2:04 (800m), 4:34 (1600m), 16:44 (5000m)...Coaches were Brian Bahn and Stephen Perago...Inducted into the National Honor Society...Active in Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and Key Club at Spring Grove.
Personal: Son of Kevin and Ellen Shenk...Has an older sister, Abby...Spent most of the 2011-12 academic year living, teaching and volunteering in Thailand, where he worked with an organization that provides relief to war-zones of Burma...Cycled from Virginia to California in 43 days during the summer of 2011 to benefit multiple sclerosis research —he earned $22,000 for M.S....International business major with a German minor.
Historical Player Information
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2012Freshman
5'7"
140 lbs
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2013Sophomore
5'7"
128 lbs
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