2024 Men's Cross Country Roster

Ethan Turner

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Boone, N.C.
  • High School Watauga
  • Prev School UNC

Biography

PR's
Cross Country: 8K - 23:47.6 … 10K - 32:21.9
Outdoor: 1,500m - 3:51.18 … 3,000m - 8:21.76 … 5,000m - 14:08.07 … 10,000m - 30:07.94

2024-25
Cross Country 
  • Earned Second Team All-SBC honors after finishing 10th with an 8K time of 25:02.1 and helped the Mountaineers to a team title at the SBC Championships (Nov. 1) 
  • Clocked a 10K personal best of 32:21.9 and rounded out the top-100 at the NCAA Southeast Regional (Nov. 15) 
  • Recorded a time of 23:47.6 for an 8K personal best at the Joe Piane Invitational (Oct. 4) 
  • Made his debut with an 8K time of 24:34.1 for a ninth-place finish at the Firetower Project Run (Sept. 13)
  • Finished the season ranked second all-time in the program’s 8K top-10  
Outdoor
  • Broke the program record with a personal best of 14:08.07 in the 5,000 meters at the Raleigh Relays (Mar. 27-29)
  • Finished first in the 3,000 meters with a program record time of 8:21.76 and was part of the 4x800-meter relay team that placed third with a time of 7:49.40 at the Myrtle Beach Invitational (Mar. 14-15)
  • Secured Second Team All-SBC honors and moved to 10th in the App State all-time list after clocking a personal best of 30:07.94 for a second-place finish in the 10,000 meters at the SBC Outdoor Championships (May 8-10)
  • Rounded out the top-10 in the 5,000 meters with a time of 14:39.56 in the SBC Outdoor Championships (May 8-10)
  • Clocked a personal best of 3:51.18 in the 1,500 meters at the Duke Invitational (Apr. 10-12)
  • Part of the distance medley relay (DMR) team that stopped the clock at 9:56.44 at the Penn Relays (Apr. 24-26)
Prior to App State
  • Attended UNC and was part of the UNC-Chapel Hill Running Club
  • Helped the running club to a 2023 NIRCA Southeast Regional Cross Country title
  • Two-time National Intercollegiate Running Club Association All-American
  • 2024 NIRCA 5K Outdoor National Meet runner-up
Personal
  • Was born in Newcastle, England
  • Is a fan of the Queens Park Rangers
  • Enjoys Flemish and Glaswegian indie bands, French cinema, and mid-2000s British sitcoms
  • Plays the viola
  • Was taught how to make pasta carbonara in Belgium by a nationall-ranked U18 Italian pole vaulter