Bio

2024 Outdoor: Made six starts … Qualified to the 400 hurdle finals at the NCAC Championships (May 3-4), finishing eighth overall in 1:05.85 … Posted the third-fastest 400 hurdle time of 56.47 in prelims at NCACs … Member of Wooster’s seventh-place 4x400 relay that finished in 3:28.24 … 400 hurdle runner-up in back-to-back meets, including a collegiate best of 55.74 at the Duane Gomez Invitational (Apr. 20) … That 400 hurdles time ties for the seventh fastest in program history … Sixth-place 4x400 relay member from All-Ohio Championships (Apr. 13) with a time of 3:31.16 … Top 100 collegiate time of 11.83 came during home Wooster Invitational (Apr. 6) … Placed fifth in 110 hurdles in 17.87 at Bob Kahn Invitational (March 30) …

2024 Indoor Part of the winning distance medley relay ream at All-Ohio Championships (Feb. 10) that broke the tape in 10:30.05 … Member of a pair of seventh-place relay teams at NCAC Championships (Feb. 23-24) with 3:31.20 in the 4x400 and 10:42.53 in the DMR … Also competed in the 60 hurdle prelims at NCACs … Pair of runner-up finishes at Kenyon Tune Up (Feb. 16) with a collegiate-best 24.31 in the 200 and a season-best time of 9.42 in the 60 hurdles … Also part of winning 4x400 relay from Kenyon meet in time of 3:45.22 … 60 hurdle and 4x400 relay winner during dual meet vs. Denison (Jan. 25) in times of 9.57 and 3:36.11, respectively … Season-best 400 time of 53.75 came at home Fighting Scots Invitational (Jan. 20) …

2023 Outdoor: Repeated as an All-NCAC performer as part of Wooster’s winning and school-record breaking 4x400 relay (3:17.43) at NCAC Championships (May 5-6), with relay marking program’s first first-place conference quartet since 2000 … Narrowly missed All-NCAC honors in the 400 hurdle finals, placing fourth in 57.41 at NCACs … Also competed in 110 hurdle prelims at conference meet, turning in a top collegiate time of 16.67 … Scored at All-Ohio Championships (April 15) as part of fifth-place 4x400 that had a time of 3:28.46 … Won 400 hurdles at three separate meets: dual meet against Oberlin (April 8), dual meet against Denison (April 12) and Kenyon Invitational (April 22) … Named NCAC Athlete of the Week on March 20 after strong overall performance at Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational (March 16-18) … Overall, competed in 10 meets …

2023 Indoor: Part of Wooster’s runner-up 4x400 (3:27.34) at the NCAC Championships (Feb. 24-25), earning third career All-NCAC honor … Helped contribute on two other scoring relays at NCACs, the fourth-place 4x200 (1:33.60) and the fifth-place DMR (10:42.32) … Also competed in 60 hurdle prelims at conference championships … Collected All-Ohio honors as part of Wooster’s winning and school-record breaking 4x400 in 3:24.79 at All-Ohio Championships (Feb. 11) … Also scored as part of Wooster’s sixth-place 4x200 (1:32.18) at All-Ohio … Turned in collegiate-best time of 53.13 in the 400 at the Bob Shannon Invitational (Feb. 4) … Key part of five winning relays on the season … Overall, competed in seven meets …

2022 Football: Credited with two tackles versus Hilbert (Oct. 22) in what was season debut … Also played at Oberlin (Nov. 12) …

2022 Outdoor: Earned All-NCAC laurels as part of Wooster’s runner-up 4x400 that crossed at 3:22.40 at the NCAC Championships (May 5-6) … Just missed on All-NCAC honors in the 400 hurdles with fourth-place time of 57.23 at conference … Part of Wooster’s eighth-place 4x100 (45.15) at the conference meet … Broke the program record in the 4x400 a week later with time of 3:19.50 at Harrison Dillard Twilight (May 13) … Part of Wooster’s first-place 4x400 that clocked in at 3:22.60 at the All-Ohio Championships (April 16) … Scored in the 400 hurdles (57.69) and 4x100 (47.22) at All-Ohio … Logged collegiate-best 400 hurdles time of 56.55 at Denison Invitational (April 29) … Had a NCAC-leading time of 58.24 in the 400 hurdles following the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational (March 17-19) and was tabbed as NCAC Athlete of the Week for that effort … Competed in 10 meets …

2022 Indoor: Captured All-NCAC honors as part of Wooster’s third-place 4x400 (3:26.34) at NCAC Championships (Feb. 25-26) … Scored as part of the sixth-place 4x200 (1:31.83) at NCAC meet … Individually, had collegiate-best 60 hurdles time of 8.94 at NCAC meet, which was good for seventh-place showing … Relay contributor at All-Ohio Championships (Feb. 12), helping Scots to seventh- and eighth-place times of 1:35.58 and 3:35.84 in the 4x200 and 4x400, respectively … Competed in seven meets … Helped program to runner-up NCAC finish, the program’s highest since 1998 … 

2021 Football: Played in four games … Credited with five tackles … Had two tackles in back-to-back wins over Hiram (Oct. 30) and Allegheny (Nov. 6) …

2021 Outdoor: Key contributor for the Scots at the NCAC Championships (May 6) … Part of Wooster’s fifth-place 4x400 at the NCAC meet, with that quartet crossing at 3:30.54 … Individually, was seventh in the 400 hurdles (58.17) and competed in the preliminary heats of the 110-meter hurdles at the NCAC Championships … Competed in five meets … Posted a collegiate-best time of 57.98 in the 400 hurdles at the OWU Twilight (April 15) …

2021 Indoor: Raced in both meets … Logged two runner-up showings against Ohio Wesleyan (March 6), with those coming in the 60-meter hurdles (9.65) and the 4x400 (3:34.02) …

2020-21 Football: Split time over the course of the academic year at wide receiver and defensive back … Played as a defensive back during the two exhibition contests … Tallied three tackles …

2020 Outdoor: Part of Wooster’s second-place 4x400 (3:29.95) at the Coastal Carolina Invitational (March 13-14) … Also had a time of 16.77 in the 110 hurdles at the Coastal Carolina Invitational …

2020 Indoor: Part of Wooster’s record-setting 4x400 that placed fourth with a time of 3:27.98 at the NCAC Championships (Feb. 28-29) … Also competed in the preliminary heats of the 60 hurdles at NCACs, with time of 9.09 ranking 10th … Earned a spot on Wooster’s 4x400 at the All-Ohio Championships (Feb. 15), with that relay placing ninth at 3:30.73 …

2019 Football: Utilized the season as a developmental year …

Prior to Wooster: First-team all-league in football and track & field at The Pingry School … Played for father, Christopher …

Personal: Parents are Christopher Shilts and Catherine Hamm, who are both Wooster alums … Father was a four-year letterwinner in football and earned all-conference honors in the 880-yard relay in 1989 … Mother was also on the track & field team … Communication studies and education major.