LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Matyas Csiki-Fejer of the Suffolk men's cross country team made the most of the first-ever Ram to run at the NCAA Division III National Championships as he put together a 148th-place performance Saturday morning at E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park .
Csiki-Fejer burst out of the gates finishing the first 1K in 3:03.4. The Manchester, Missouri, local who was the first-ever Suffolk male student-athlete to run on the national stage, completed the 8K course in 25:47.5 to finish in the middle of the 280-runner field.
The performance is the best by a GNAC student-athlete at NCAAs, upstaging Johnson & Wales Greg Redfield's 173rd-place performance behind a time of 27:16.6 in 2009.
Csiki-Fejer closed out a standout sophomore that saw him collect all-region accolades, become the first-ever Ram to take home GNAC Runner of the Year accolades with a course record-setting finish in Standish, Maine November 2.
