CORVALLIS, Ore. — Jack Gladfelter of Corban University was named the 2025 Cascade Collegiate Conference McDonald’s Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Year, announced Wednesday by the conference office.

Gladfelter, a junior from Port Angeles, began the season as the top non-NCAA Division I finisher at the Charles Bowles Invitational in Salem, breaking the program 8K record with a time of 23:52.7 in his first race, and finishing sixth overall.

He earned CCC, NAIA and USTFCCCA Men’s Runner of the Week honors that week. He topped that performance at the next race, the George Oja Invitational, breaking the Corban 8K record again with a time of 23:49.7, over four seconds faster than the previous school best, finishing third in that race.

At the CCC Championship, he placed third with a time of

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