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Wayne State University Athletics

2007 Men's Cross Country Roster

Kevin Christensen

  • Height:
    5-6
  • Letters:
    4
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Battle Creek, Mich.
  • High School:
    Pennfield

Summary

Biography

2009: Will serve as an assistant coach.

2007: Named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team ... earned Second Team All-GLIAC honors after placing 11th at the conference meet ... earned All-Region accolades after finishing 11th at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet ... received a 2007-08 DII ADA Academic Achievement Award ... competed in all eight races ... had two top-10 finishes: Tommy Titan (5th) and Michigan Intercollegiate (8th) ... was WSU's second runner at both the GLIAC Championship and NCAA Regional helping the Warriors to a second-place finish in both meets ... was WSU's third runner at the NCAA Championship meet ... was named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic team.

2006: Named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team ... earned Great Lakes All-Region honors after placing 10th at the NCAA Regionals (top-15 are named All-Region) ... competed in all eight races ... recorded four top-10 finishes - UP Collegiate Opener (9th), Tommy Titan Invitational (8th), Michigan Intercollegiate (7th), and NCAA Regional (10th).

2005: Earned All-GLIAC Second Team honors after finishing eighth at the GLIAC Championship on Oct. 22 ... had two top ten finishes - at the Cross Country Only Nationals placing 3rd and at the GLIAC Championships finishing 8th ... best 8k time came at the Lehigh/Paul Short Invitational with a time of 25:15 ... finished 15th (32:14.9) at the NCAA Regional on Nov. 5, earning all-region honors ... named to the GLIAC All-Academic team.

2004: Placed 17th in the Michigan Intercollegiate in a time of 26:30 ... finished 27th at the GLIAC Championships in a time of 26:45 ... placed 47th at NCAA Great Lakes Regional (hosted by SIU-Edwardsville) in a 10K time of 34:00.36, which helped team qualify for Nationals ... finished 94th at NCAA Championships.

High School: A 2004 graduate of Pennfield ... earned three varsity letters in cross country ... placed 10th at the 2003 Division 3 state cross country meet in a time of 16:09.10 ... competed at the 2002 (76th - 17:11.20) and 2001 (125th - 17:50.6) state cross country meets ... was a three-time all-city and all-conference honoree ... also earned four varsity letters in track and two in basketball ... placed ninth at the 2004 Division 3 state track meet in the 3200m (9:58.66) ... was a member of the National Honor Society ... served as a team captain in both cross country and track.

Personal: Full name--Kevin G. Christensen ... born October 2, 1985, in Battle Creek ... son of Bruce and Linda Christensen ... has a twin brother, Kyle, and an older sister, Lindsay ... is an accounting major ... placed 12th at the national AAU meet in the summer of 2003 ... is a 2004 graduate of Pennfield High School ... named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (term gpa 3.5+) for Fall 2005, Winter 2006, Fall 2006, Winter 2007, Fall 2007 and Winter 2008 ... named to the Coach's Honor Roll (term gpa 3.0-3.49) for Fall 2004 ... serves on the student-athlete advisory committee (SAAC).


Kevin Christensen's Career Statistics
  2004 2005 2006 2007
Meet Time Place Time Place Time Place Time Place
UP Collegiate Opener         17:00 9th
Kansas Invitational - 6k             27:45.94 32nd
Virginia Tech - 6k 20:34.94 19th
Iowa - 6k     19:21 26th
Detroit Mercy - 4 mile 22:14 34th 20:55 11th 21:04 8th 20:48 5th
Mel Brodt Invitational         26:32 11th
Wis.-Parkside - 8k 27:36 90th 26:23 29th     26:17 29th
CC Only Nationals - 8k 27:26.20 22nd 26:45.52 3rd
Lehigh/Paul Short - 8k     25:15 97th 25:41 89th
Bucknell - 8k 27:57.32 85th
Louisville Classic - 8k             25:32.42 77th
Michigan Intercollegiate - 8k 26:30 17th     24:52 7th 27:11.5 8th
GLIAC Championship - 8k 26:45.0 27th 27:10.0 8th 25:26.7 19th 26:07.79 11th
NCAA Regional - 10k 34:00.36 47th 32:14.9 15th 32:32 10th 32:04.63 11th
NCAA Championship - 10k 34:48.8 94th 33:25.6 52nd 31:30 65th 33:16.1 118th

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Historical Player Information

  • 2004Freshman

    5'6"
  • 2005Sophomore

    5'6"
  • 2006Junior

    5'6"
  • 2007Senior

    5'6"