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Will Callender

Will Callender

  • Year:
    So.
  • Hometown:
    Seattle, Wash.
  • High School:
    Roosevelt
  • Major:
    Psychology

2023 Outdoor: Took third for All-NCAC honors in the 5K at the NCAC Championships (May 5-6) with a time of 15:07.39, which was the sixth-fastest time in school history … Runner-up in the 5K at the All-Ohio Championships (April 15) in a time of 15:26.91 … Turned in a collegiate-best time of 9:42.04 in the 3K steeplechase at NCACs, narrowly missing out on another all-conference honor with a fourth-place finish … Steeple time at conference championship ranks as the seventh-fastest in program history … Competed in four meets.

2023 Indoor: NCAC Indoor Distance Athlete of the Year … NCAC Champion in 3K with a school-record breaking time of 8:40.60 at the NCAC Championships (Feb. 24-25) … Also earned All-NCAC honors in the 5K with a third-place finish in a time of 15:08.39 … Recorded three additional individual event wins, twice in the 3K and once in the mile … Also part of Wooster’s winning distance medley relay (10:45.34) at the home Fighting Scots Invitational (Jan. 21) … Overall competed in five meets.

2022 Cross Country: Consistent top finisher for the Scots … Earned USTFCCCA All-Great Lakes Region honors with a 30th-place finish in a career-best championship-length time of 25:00.9 at Great Lakes Regional Championships (Nov. 12) … All-Ohio and second-team All-NCAC honoree for the second consecutive season … NCAC Athlete of the Week in back-to-back weeks (Sept. 19, Sept. 26) … Took the individual title in three separate meets - against Denison (Sept. 22), the Muskingum Invitational (Oct. 1) and the Wooster 5K Twilight Challenge (Nov. 4) …  Placed 11th at the NCAC Championships (Oct. 29) in 27:33.8 … Finished 30th out of all Division III runners at the All-Ohio Championships (Sept. 16) in a time of 25:27.9.

2022 Outdoor: Earned All-Ohio honors with third-place time of 15:35.48 in the 5K at the All-Ohio Championships (April 16) … Logged season-best 10K time of 32:50.21 at the Bob Kahn Invitational (April 8) … Competed in the 5K and 10K at the NCAC Championships (May 5-6) and just missed on scoring in both.

2022 Indoor: Scored in the 3K and 5K with times of 8:51.36 and 15:22.48, respectively, at the NCAC Championships (Feb. 25-26) … Placed fifth in the 3K and seventh in the 5K at the conference meet … Won the 3K at the Bob Shannon Invitational (Feb. 5) and Wooster Quad (Jan. 15) with times of 8:59.48 and 9:30.47, respectively.

2021 Cross Country: Wooster’s No. 1 finisher in every race … Earned second-team All-NCAC honors with ninth-place time of 26:50.9 at the NCAC Championships (Oct. 30) … Won the Wooster 5K Twilight Challenge (Nov. 5) at 16:01.1 … Fifth-place at the Muskingum Invitational (Oct. 2), with championship-length time of 28:50.4 … Helped Scots to team title at Muskingum, a first for the program at a traditional meet since 2014 … Crossed 111th at the NCAA Div. III Great Lakes Regional (Nov. 13) with time of 27:05.7 … Stopped the watch at 27:03.0 at the All-Ohio Championships (Sept. 17), which was 69th among Div. III entrants … Debuted with fifth-place 4000-meters time of 21:35.3 at the Wooster Invitational (Sept. 1) … Time at Wooster Invite marked a new team course record for the 4K race.

Prior to Wooster: District qualifier as a junior and was the fifth-place finisher in the conference meet as a senior at Roosevelt High School … Four-year letterwinner in cross country and lettered once in track & field … Prepped for Howard Collier.

Personal: March 15, 2003 … Parents are Jeffrey and Sarah Callender … Psychology major.