Owen Howard

Photo by: Kat Fulcher

Photo by: Jamie Severns

Photo by: Keara Chaperon '22

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Shepherd, Mich.
High School:
Shepherd
Previous School:
Saginaw Valley State

Personal Bests
5K: 15:38.8
8K: 24:54.3
10K: 32:43.5
5 Mile: 26:26.4

2022: Collected top-25 mark with 26:02.3 8K at Bowling Green’s Falcon Collegiate Invitational (Oct. 14) … third-best Chippewa finisher at the 2022 Mid-American Conference Championship in Athens, Ohio with a 25:28.2 8K (Oct. 29) … finished NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championship 10K in 32:58.9 as the fourth-highest finisher of the CMU representatives

2021: Rewrote personal-best list throughout junior campaign … opened season with PR 15:38.8 5K in CMU’s Jeff Drenth Memorial, good for 11^th in the field … finished top-40 in both the MAC Championships (Oct. 30) and Bradley Pink Classic (Oct. 15), posting 24:54.3 8K personal-best in the Bradley event … third-fastest Chippewa at the 2021 Great Lakes Regional Championships in Evansville, Ind. with personal-best 32:43.5

2020: Placed 39TH (8K 25:47.3) at the Mid-American Conference Championship in Bowling Green, Ohio (Nov. 21) … placed 47th (8K 27:41.2) at the Bowling Green State Falcon Invitational (Nov. 7) … finished third (5K 15:56.8) at the CMU Jeff Drenth Memorial (Oct. 31)

2018-19 at SVSU: Transferred to Central Michigan from NCAA II Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) … Finished second in the 5000m at the SVSU Holiday Open & Multis with a season-best time of 15:26.19 ... placed fifth in the 3000m at the SVSU Doug Hansen Open with season-best time of 8:51.72 ... finished in third place in the 3000m at the SVSU Classic (9:16.27) ... had a personal best time of 26:49.6 in the 8K at the 2018 GLIAC Cross Country Championships ... ran the mile in 4:37.39 at the SVSU Classic

High School: Four-year letterwinner for the Bluejays in cross country ... three-year letterwinner in track & field ... personal records at Shepherd: 9:38 (3200m), 4:33 (1600m), 16:41 (5K) ... Tri-Valley Conference Central 1600m champion in 2017 ... D3 all-state in the 3200m in 2017 ... earned cross country all-region honors in 2015 and 2016.