Kaleb Wooten
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- Hometown:
- Plattsmouth, Neb.
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- Year:
- So.
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- High School:
- Plattsmouth HS
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- Previous School(s):
- Plattsmouth HS
Bio
Honors & Awards:
- 2023, Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete (Track)
- 2022-23, NSAA Scholar-Athlete (Track)
- 2022, NSAA Scholar-Athlete (Cross Country)
- 2021, NSAA Scholar-Athlete (Cross Country)
News mentions
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released the 2023 Daktronics NAIA Men's Track & Field Scholar-Athletes today and two Bruins were named to the prestigious list, Aaron Newton and Kaleb Wooten.
The final day of the NSAA Outdoor Track Championships saw the Bruin distance squad add two more all-conference finishes (top three in individual events). The Bruins ended the meet with four such performances.
Highlighting the day was Collin Kotz's victory in the day's opening event, the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase. Kotz was the early leader and led throughout the race, followed closely by a Nebraska Wesleyan athlete. With 100 meters to go, Kotz had to hold off his challenger and did so for a narrow 0.12-second win. Kotz's time was 9:50.07, just off his season best of 9:47.
After poor weather prompted Doane University to postpone Friday and Saturday's events at the Jim Dutcher Invite, the Bruin distance track squad finally found some conditions conducive to fast running on Sunday afternoon in Crete. Partly sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-50s allowed two Bruins to establish new school records while two others had big personal bests.
The Bruin distance track squad traveled to Vermillion, South Dakota, for Friday's Early Bird Invite hosted by the University of South Dakota. A large field comprised of teams from all NCAA levels, the NAIA and NJCAA were greeted by pleasant conditions of sunny skies, temperatures in the low 60's, and a breeze out of the south. Highlights for the Bruins included three school-record-breaking performances.
The Bruin distance track team traveled to Kearney for Saturday's Central Nebraska Challenge hosted by UNK and Hastings College. Good early season conditions with temperatures in the 50's, sunny skies and light winds greeted competitors from fifteen area schools representing all NCAA divisions and the NAIA.
Saba Khvichava brought home four gold medals from Sunday’s NSAA Indoor Track and Field Championships held on the 300-meter oval at South Dakota State University. For his efforts, Khvichava was awarded the NSAA Indoor Track Athlete-of-the-Meet. He led the Bruins to their best team finish in program history, a fifth-place finish scoring 57 points. (Top eight places score 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1).
The Bruin distance track team split their squad over the weekend, competing in the Concordia Classic in Seward on Friday evening and the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite at the Bob Devaney Center in Lincoln on Saturday. The highlight of the weekend was the Bruin's first-ever NAIA national qualifying mark for indoor track turned in by Saba Khvichava.
The Bruin men's distance track team continued to cut time from personal bests at Saturday's Fred Beile Indoor Track Classic hosted by Doane University. The Bruins have positioned themselves at the top or among the leaders in the North Star as the conference meet approaches in three weeks.
The Bruins distance track men set records of the school, personal and seasonal variety at Friday's Prairie Wolf Indoor Track Invitational hosted by Nebraska Wesleyan at UNL's Devaney Center. Three school records fell, and every other Bruin athlete had either a lifetime or seasonal best on the day.
The Bruin distance track squad opened its 2023 indoor track campaign at Saturday's Scott Nisely Memorial on the campus of Doane University. The Bruin men established two school records among a number of quality early-season performances.