EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana Men’s Cross Country senior Brady Terry has been named Ohio Valley Conference Runner of the Week for the third time in this season in an announcement by the league office Wednesday morning.
Terry, who finished second out of 233 competitors at the Angel Mounds Invitational last weekend, becomes the first USI Men’s Cross Country runner in program history to earn three conference Runner of the Week honors in a single cross country season.
He joins Michael Jordan (2013 Outdoor Track & Field), Johnnie Guy (2016 Indoor Track & Field) and Titus Winders (2020 Indoor Track & Field and 2022 Indoor Track & Field) as the only student-athletes in USI Men’s Cross Country/Track & Field history to earn three conference weekly awards in a single-season.
On the women’s side, only Heather Cooksey (2005), Mary Ballinger (2009) and Julia Kohnen (2014) have won three conference weekly awards in cross country, while Ballinger also won three GLVC Indoor Track Athlete of the Week awards in 2010.
Last Friday, Terry finished the eight-kilometer race in an OVC-best 24 minutes, 10.5 seconds to lead the Screaming Eagles to a third-place finish in the 16-team field. USI finished with 74 points, just five off second-place Lipscomb University and nearly 20 points ahead of fourth-place Southeast Missouri State University.
Notable teams competing at the Angel Mounds Invitational also included Bellarmine, UT Martin, Evansville, Western Kentucky, Murray State and Austin Peay.
The Philpot, Kentucky, native was named OVC Runner of the Week following his first-place finish at the UT Martin OVC Preview last month and was crowned for the second-time as OVC Runner of the Week following his efforts at the University of Missouri’s Gans Creek Classic three weeks ago.
A finance major at USI, Terry has been named OVC Runner of the Week after each of the last three meets he has competed in and in three of the four meets he has run this season. He raced to second-team All-OVC honors when he finished 13th at the 2023 OVC Championships.
Terry will be attempting to become the second USI men’s runner in three seasons to capture an OVC title on the grass when the Eagles toe the line at the OVC Championships November 1 in Martin, Tennessee. The women’s 6K is slated for 9 a.m., while the men’s 8k is scheduled for a 10 a.m. start time.
