Bio

Honors & Awards

• Five-time letterwinner (2021, 22, 23, 24, 25)

2025 | fifth year

• Ran a team-best 32:32.22 in the outdoor 10,000m race
• Competed in the outdoor season in the 1500m, 5000m, and 3000m steeple
• Saw action in the mile, 3000m, and 5000m races in the indoor season

2024 | senior

• Clocked the team’s fastest 3,000 meter steeplechase with a time of 10:15.13
• Ran the fifth-fastest indoor mile on the year in a career-best 4:35.33
• Recorded new career-bests in the indoor 3,000 meters (9:00.52) and the 5,000 meters (15:49.75)

2023 | junior

• Broke the five-minute barrier in the indoor mile with a new career-best of 4:50.62 at the Prairie Wolf Invite
• Set his career-best in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:14.48 at the Dr. Tucker Open

2022 | sophomore

• Set his career-best in the indoor mile of 5:00.06 at the Liz Wuertz Invite
• Ran a career-best in the outdoor 1500 meters at the Dr. Tucker Open in a time of 4:31.47

2021 | freshman

• Clocked a career-best 9:53.52 in the outdoor 3000 meters at the Central-NWU-Simpson Tri-Meet

High School

• A 2020 graduate of Indianola High School
• Earned one letter in cross country
• Tallied three academic letters

Personal

• Son of Michelle and Scott Wheeler
• Has three siblings, Tyler, Rebecca and Josh
• Majoring in exercise science and business management with a minor in economics