Chris Casart
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- Hometown:
- Plattsmouth, Neb.
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- Year:
- Sr.
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- High School:
- Plattsmouth HS
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- Previous College:
- Iowa Western CC
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- Previous School(s):
- Iowa Western CC/Plattsmouth HS
Bio
Honors and Awards
- 2021, NSAA Cross Country Runner of the Week (Sept. 21)
- 2019, All-NSAA (Cross Country)
- 2019, NSAA Champion of Character (Outdoor Track)
2020 Season (Senior): Placed 13th at the NSAA Championship with a time of 30:44.49 ... Ran a season-best time of 28:21.2 at the Briar Cliff Invitational (Oct. 3) ... Posted sub-30 minute times in four of five races run ... Improved his school-record time in the outdoor 5,000-meter to 16:27.05 at the NSAA Championships.
2019 Season (Junior): Was an NSAA all-conference runner in 2019 finishing in ninth place ... Has an 8K personal best of 27:02.3 which is currently the program's second-best time ... Has been a podium (award) finisher in five meets during his career ... On the track, Casart holds the school record in the 1500 meters.
2018 Season (Sophomore): Produced the team's top marks on the season in both the 7K and 8K races ... Finished eighth in the season-opening Griffon Open with a time of 26:23 in the 7K event ... Ran the 8K event at the Briar Cliff Invite in a school-record time of 27:09.6 ... Posted six of the team's top eight marks on the season ... Placed 17th at the NSAA Championships with a time of 28:05.1
At Iowa Western CC: Competed one season at Iowa Western CC under coach Emmett Statzer.
High School: Four-year letterwinner at Plattsmouth High School under head coach Todd Nott ... Placed 12th at the 2016 Nebraska State Cross Country Meet ... Posted personal best times of 16:52 in the 5K and 4:40 in the 1,600 meters.
Personal: Son of Chris and Amanda Casart ... Has three younger siblings ... Born on Feb. 18, 1999 ... Majoring in Health and Human Performance.
News mentions
Freshman Peyton Anthony and senior Chris Casart became the first two Bruin men in program history to compete in the NAIA Cross Country National Championships.
Chris Casart and Peyton Anthony will represent the Bruin men. NSAA champion Madison Nelson will compete for the BU women.
Led by three Bruin men who were named all-Conference, the Bruin men’s cross country team rose to the runner-up spot at today’s NSAA Cross Country Championship. This was the Bruin’s best finish as a team in their short four-season existence, bettering a fourth-place showing in 2019. The Bruins posted a team score of 59 (sum of their first five runners finishing places) to edge Dickinson State by two points. The Dakota State men put four runners into the Top Ten and tallied a team score of 40 points, advancing them to the NAIA National Championship on November 19 in Ft. Vancouver, Wash.
Four members of the Bruin's men's cross country team used Saturday's Mount Marty Invite as a final tune-up for the NSAA Championship in two weeks. The Bruins were without a full squad as runners were held out to address injury issues in hopes of having them back to race in two weeks.
Several breakthrough performances highlighted a very strong effort by the Bruin men at Saturday’s Holiday Inn Express Cross Country Classic hosted by Dordt University. A quality field of runners traversed the three loops of the Dordt Prairie, highlighted by a dominating performance by the No. 13 ranked Dordt men. The Defenders placed all seven of their runners in the top ten for a low team total of 18 with just one Northwestern Iowa runner breaking up the perfect 1-2-3-4-5 score. The Bruins, despite running without their usual third man, placed a solid fifth place among the nine complete teams.
The Bruins’ five scorers averaged 27:32 for eight kilometers, easily the best team clocking in program history. As was the case last week, the Bruins were barely edged from the third team spot as conference foe Dakota State defeated them 116 to 120.
NCAA Division II Wayne State edged the Bellevue University men’s cross country team 52 to 53 for second place in Friday’s Wildcat Classic.
Casart recorded a personal record time of 27:00.8 to place 92nd in the Greeno/Dirksen Invitational, hosted by NCAA Division I Nebraska and NCAA Division III Nebraska Wesleyan. The men's 8K race featured seven teams from NCAA Division I. He was sixth best among NAIA entrants in the race.
The Bruin men finished in 12th place among 17 Gold division teams. The Gold division was won by past NJCAA champion Iowa Central CC with three men in the top six while Wichita State won the Red Division handily over runner-up Air Force.
Freshman Peyton Anthony and senior Chris Casart finished in 10th and 11th respectively to lead the Bruin men in their cross country season opener at the Bill Buxton Invitational hosted by Simpson College. Anthony covered the 6-kilometer course in 20:12.7 with Casart right behind in 20:18.7.
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