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2021 Men's Cross Country Roster

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Brett Dunbar

Keanan Ginell

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Naperville, Ill.
  • Highschool:
    Neuqua Valley

Summary

Biography


Awards:

  • Named to the North Coast Athletic Conference's 40th Anniversary All-Decade Team (Oct. 2023)
  • 2021 USTFCCCA All-Region
  • 2021 NCAC Runner of the Year
  • 2021 First-Team All-NCAC
  • 2019 Second-Team All-NCAC
  • Named NCAC Athlete of the Week three times as a senior (9/7/21, 9/13/21 &Ā 10/18/21)

2021 (Senior):

  • Finished in first place in four races as a senior, including doing so in each of the first three races of the year and at the NCACĀ Championships
  • Was the fastest Denison runner in every race
  • RanĀ a new 5k personal best (16:06.7) and finished first in the first race of the season at the Kenyon Tri (Sept. 3)
  • Named NCAC Athlete of the Week for his performance at Kenyon
  • Finished first (26:12.0) for the second race in a row to start the season at theĀ NCAC Preview (Sept. 11)
  • Named NCAC Athlete of the Week for the second week in a row for his performance at the NCAC Preview
  • Finished first (16:18.4) for the third race in a row to start the season at theĀ Wooster Dual Meet (Sept. 21)
  • Was 53rd (25:39.8) at the Louisville Classic (Oct. 2)
  • Was 13th (26:03.9) in the Oberlin College Inter-Regional Rumble Varsity Race (Oct. 16)
  • Named NCAC Athlete of the Week for the third time on the season for his performance at Oberlin
  • Was first (25:56.4) at theĀ North Coast Athletic Conference Championships (Oct. 30)
  • Named NCAC Runner of the Year and First-Team All-NCAC after winning the conference individual championship
  • Was 17th (25:16.8) at theĀ NCAA Division III Great Lakes Region Cross Country Championships (Nov. 13)
  • Named to the All-Great Lakes Region team
  • Ran a new 8k personal best (24:47.8) and placed 93rd at the NCAA Division III Championship (Nov. 20)
  • Became the first Denison men's cross country runner to competeĀ at nationals since 2011

2020 (Junior):

  • Season canceled due to COVID-19 Pandemic

2019 (Sophomore):Ā 
  • Named second-team All-NCAC after placing eighth overall (26:17.8) at the 2019 North Coast Athletic Conference Championship
  • Took 10th overall (26:42.89) at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational
  • Earned a 14th place finish at the Ohio Wesleyan Invitational (27:08.6)
  • Placed second overall for the Big Red at the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional (25:16.4)

2018 (Freshman):

  • Placed 61st overall at the Sodexo Grizzly Invitational (30:21.00)
  • Finished fifth for the Big Red at the Wooster Dual Meet (18:26.7) and at the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional (27:41.9)

Personal:Ā 

  • Environment studies major with a concentration in renewable energy systems
  • Son of Lisa Keefe and Steve Ginell
  • Sister, Keara, is currently a junior on the Vassar College Cross Country team
  • Also a member of the Big Red men's track & field team

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