University of Southern Indiana sophomore Titus Winders has been named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week in an announcement by the league office Wednesday afternoon.
Winders placed first in the 5,000 meters at the GVSU Holiday Open with an NCAA II provisional qualifying time of 14 minutes, 6.19 seconds. Winders’ mark was just under three seconds away from earning an NCAA II automatic qualifying standard of 14:03.70. His 5000m time currently sits as the fifth-fastest in the nation and is third all-time in program history, behind Johnnie Guy (14:05.09/2015) and Elly Rono (13:56.30/1998).
This is the fourth GLVC weekly honor Winders has received in his USI running career. He now boasts two GLVC Runner of the Week awards in cross country (October 2018 and October 2019) along with his two GLVC Track Athlete of the Week awards (December 2018 and December 2019).
Up Next: USI returns to action on January 11 for the UAB Vulcan Invite held in Birmingham, Alabama.
