2024-25 Men's Track and Field Roster
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 lettersÂ
- Considered Baylor and Arizona State for undergrad
Historical Player Information
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2023-24Junior
Distance
5'9"
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2024-25Senior
Distance
5'9"