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2024-25 Men's Track and Field Roster

Reily Rogers

Braedon Palmer

  • Position Distance
  • Height 5-9
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Peoria, Ariz.
  • Prev School Grand Canyon University
  • High School Sunrise Mountain

Biography

TFRRS Profile

2024 Cross Country:
  • First Team All-ASUN
  • Preseason Runner of the Year
  • Opened the season with a personal best in the 8k at the Gans Creek Classic with a time of 23:36.8 and placed nineteenth
  • Placed fifth at the 2024 ASUN Cross Country Championships with a time of 23:54.3 in the 8k
  • Qualified for the NCAA Division I South Region Cross Country Championships and placed fourteenth overall with a time of 30:26.5 in the 10k

2024 Track and Field:
  • ASUN All-Academic Team
  • 1x ASUN Track Athlete of the Week
  • Competed in four indoor meets and five outdoor meets for the Bisons
  • Ran the mile, 3,000m, and 5,000m for indoor
  • Recorded three first-place times and two second-place times throughout six events
  • Placed first in each event during the season - 4:02.60 in the mile, 8:06.84 in the 3,000m, and 13:56.29 in the 5,000m
  • Placed second in both events he ran at the ASUN Indoor Track & Field Championship - 8:04.44 in the 3,000m for a personal best, 14:17.42 in the 5,000m
  • Ran the 1,500m, 5,000m for outdoor
  • Recorded personal bests for both events - 3:46.54 in the 1,500m to place third at the ASUN Outdoor Track & Field Championships, 13:46.15 in the 5,000m to place sixth at the 2024 Bryan Clay Invitational
  • Placed in the top-6 in all three races he ran at the ASUN Outdoor Track & Field Championships
  • Earned eighteenth in the 5,000m at the NCAA East First Round with a time of 14:05.81

2023 Cross Country:
  • Competed in three meets for the Bisons
  • Ran the 8k and 10k, never placing below top 35
  • Started off the season with a third-place showing in the 8k with a time of 24:26.6 at the Angel Mounds Invitational 2023
  • Placed seventh in the 8k at the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship with a time of 24:41.5
  • Earned a personal best in the 10k with a time of 29:53.6 at the NCAA Division I South Region Cross Country Championships to place thirty-second overall

2023 Track and Field:
  • Named to the 2022-23 ASUN Indoor All-Academic Team
  • Competed in four indoor meets this season for the Bisons
  • Ran the 800m, mile, 3,000m, and 5,000m
  • Made his track debut with the Bisons at the PNC Lenny lyles Invitational with a personal best 8:07.07 in the 3,000m to finish seventh overall
  • Followed up with personal bests in the 800m (1:52.81) at the PNC Bank Bellarmine Classic to earn second place and in the mile (4:02.52) at the Music City Challenge to cross the line eighth
  • Finished first in the mile preliminaries at the ASUN Indoor Championship with a 4:04.59, follows up with a 4:05.05 in the final round to finish fifth overall, also earned sixth place in the 3,000m with a time of 8:16.25

2022 Cross Country:
  • Competed in five meets in his first season as a Bison
  • Made his Lipscomb debut at the Trevecca Michael Pretorius Invite with a 3rd place finish from a time of 26:10.3 in the 8k
  • Earned a 32nd place finish at the Gans Creek Classic, hosted by the University of Missouri, with a time of 24:22.6
  • Claimed a time of 24:23.2 in the 8k at the ASUN Cross Country Championship to finish 25th
  • Logged a personal best time in the 10k at the NCAA Division I South Region Cross Country Championships with a time of 30:34.5 to finish 29th overall

PRIOR TO LIPSCOMB AT GCU
2021 | Redshirt Freshman | XC
  • Set the 8,000 meter freshman school record at the Highlander Invitational with a time of 24:19.6
  • Finished 14th at the George Kyte Classic
  • Placed among the top 63 out of 374 runners at the Roy Griak Invitational
2020-21 | Freshman | T&F/XC
  • Placed fourth at the WAC Championships in the 1,500-meter race
  • Set three personal bests at three meets in a row
  • Set a freshman school record in the 1,500-meter race at the Canyon Invitational
  • Placed within the top-10 in all events competed in
  • Competed in one cross country meet
High School
Sunrise Mountain | Peoria, Ariz.
  • Won the Fountain Hills Invitational, while making a personal best and setting a course record
  • Consistent podium finisher at the state championships for Arizona since sophomore year
  • Earned runner-up at sectionals in 2019
Personal
  • Parents are Matt and Tristan Palmer
  • Father, Matt Palmer, played baseball with GCU from 2001-2002
  • Valedictorian and earned four academic letters 
  • Considered Baylor and Arizona State for undergrad

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Junior

    Distance
  • 2023-24Junior

    Distance
    5'9"
  • 2024-25Senior

    Distance
    5'9"
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