2025-26 Cross Country & Track & Field Roster
Biography
NIL OPPORTUNITIES
CROSS COUNTRY
2024: Competed in the 8k at the SoCon Confrence XC Championship ... competed in NCAA Dvision I South Region Cross Country Championships  ... recorded a personal best time of 35.17.4 for the 10-kilometer event ... took home a Top 15 placement at the Tennessee Cross Country Invitational finishing 11th overall with a PR time of 21:23.5 ... finished eighth at the UTC Home Meet, helping the Mocs to a first place finish ... recorded a PR time of 25:41.5 in the 8-kilometer at the Southern Showcase.
ACADEMICS
UTC Dean’s List: F’24
Athletics Director’s Honor Roll: F’24
HIGH SCHOOL
NACA Middle School Champion, 2019 and course record holder ... placed third at the 20223 Front Runner Athletic Championship ... Top 15 at the Louisville Cross Country Classic ... Runner-Up at the 2023 Cherokee Farms Invitational ... finished sixth at the 2023 Victor Ashe Park Fall Classic ... placed third at the 2023 Magnum Mile Invitational and the 2023 Front Runner 1600 meter ... claimed the 2022 Burnett Invitational title ... Classical scholar.
PERSONAL
Ian McMurtry Etheridge ... son of Ben and Cheri Etheridge ... born October 13, 2005 in Searcy, Ark. ... mother Cheri ran cross country and track for Harding Univerity from 1996-2000 ... won the Harding University’s Berryhill Award in 1999 ... LSC Academic All-Conference all four years ... GTE Academic All-America District VI ... all-conference all four years as a member of the cross country team ... siblings Sydney and Finlay.
PERSONAL RECORDS
Cross Country
   • 4-Mile: 21:23.5 (Tennessee Cross Country Invitational, 2024)
   • 8-kilometer: 25:41.5 (Southern Showcase, 2024)
   • 10-kilometer: 35:17.4 (NCAA Division I South Region Championships, 2024)
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Historical Player Information
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2024-25Freshman
Cross Country
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2025-26Sophomore
Cross Country