FORT WORTH, Texas – The MACU Men's Cross Country team continued to shatter records at the Old Glory Gallop, hosted by Dallas Baptist at the Athletic Performance Ranch on Saturday morning as
Mohamed Guled finished second with a sub 23-minute time of 22:53.77 while the Evangels eclipsed their team 8k record by almost six minutes with a cumulative time of 2:03:45.
RESULTS
- Distance: 8000-Meters (8k)
- Number of Teams: 43
- Number of Finishers: 489
- Team Score / Place: 360 / 11th
- Team Time: 2:03:45
- Scoring Placements:
RACE SUMMARY
- After breaking the MACU record and setting the fastest 8k time in the NAIA in his last race, junior Mohamed Guled continued to better his own record when he posted his first career sub 23-minute time of his illustrious career, posting a time of 22:53.77 to narrowly place second.
- Junior Abdulsalam Farah posted his first 8k time of the 2026 campaign. Despite not finishing in the Missouri Southern Stampede last month due to injury, Farah came back stronger than ever to post a 24:21.90 to place 26th, making it the third-fastest 8k time in program history, placing him only behind his United Arab Emirates counterpart in Guled.
- Freshman Kaydon Payne continued to turn heads in his first collegiate campaign as he posted the fourth-fastest 8k time in MACU's record book when he dashed across the line in 25:14:64, making it so that the Evangels set three of the four-fastest 8k marks in program history in the morning race.
- Senior Mohamed Zairi continued to make strong improvements in his 2026 campaign as he posted a 25:32.24 to set his fastest 8k time during his tenure at MACU.
- Rounding out the scoring decisions for MACU was freshman Teagan Nelson, who annihilated his personal-best collegiate 8k. After posting a 26:54.4 at last month's MSSU Southern Stampede, Nelson lowered it by more than a minute by finishing with a 25:43.24.
- MACU's next-best finishers were a pair of Evangels veterans in sophomore Cameron Pearson and junior Aidan Collins, who each set personal bests with Pearson posting 25:58.42 for his first sub 26-minute 8k race while Collins crossed the line in 26:13.36.
- Freshman Daxton Frazier also found himself in MACU's record book by becoming the eighth Evangel to set a personal best that landed in MACU's top 10 after finishing the race in 26:17.47.
- Overall, of MACU's 15 runners competing in the meet, 13 posted personal bests and eight of them finished in the top half of the loaded field consisting primarily of NCAA D-I and D-II runners.
- After breaking their own team record with a 2:09:03 at last month's Southern Stampede, the Evangels smashed that record less than 30 days later after completing a team time of 2:03.45.
UP NEXT
- Mid-America Christian will now prepare for its biggest meet of the 2026 campaign as the Evangels will be running in the Blazing Tiger Invitational hosted by Doane at Mahoney State Park in Ashland, Neb. on Oct. 24, a meet that will feature some of the top programs in the NAIA.
