Chandler Gibbens
| Career Highlights |
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| 2019 Big 12 Conference Men’s Cross Country Newcomer of the Year |
| 2019 Cross Country Midwest Region honors (21st place) |
| 2019 Cross Country All-Big 12 Team |
2023 OUTDOOR (Jr.)
2023 Team Captain … Won his first outdoor meet of the season by breaking the men’s 5k school record (previously held by Jim Ryun) with a personal best time of 13:28.71, earning second place at the Stanford Invitational … Achieved a personal best at the LSU Invitational for running the 1,500 in 3:48.02 and placed first … Won the 1,500 at the Kansas Relays for finishing in 3:51.66 … Won the 5,000 at the Rock Chalk Classic for finishing in 14:31.06 … Won both the men’s 5k and the men’s 10k at the 2023 Outdoor Big 12 Championships, becoming the first Jayhawk in school history to complete this distance sweep … Was the second-highest point scorer at Big 12’s, contributing 20 points all on his own … 2023 Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship winner … ran a 13:40.31 5k at the NCAA West Preliminaries to clinch 12th place and punch his first-ever ticket to the NCAA Outdoor National Championships … 2023 CSC Academic All-District selection … Took 17th place at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships with his 14:24.71 time in the men’s 5000m run.
2023 INDOOR (Jr.)
Finished second in the mile for finishing in 4:10.86 and finished third in the 3,000 for finishing in 8:21.88 at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular … Placed first in the mile at the Jayhawk Classic for finishing it in 4:12.00 … Won the mile with a time of 4:12.00 at the Jayhawk Classic … Won the 5000 with a time of 14:05.31 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational … Achieved a personal best at the Tyson Invitation for finishing the 3,000 in 8:05.16, placing second overall … Competed in two events in the Big 12 Indoor Championships, finishing tenth in the 3,000 with a time of 8:17.67 and fifth in the 5,000 with a time of 14:20.99.
2022 CROSS COUNTRY (Jr.)
Started the season off strong with a time of 18:21.63 and earned a first-place finish at the Bob Timmons Classic….Ran a 24:10.8 8K to help the Jayhawks clinch a third-place finish at the Greeno/Dirksen Invitational … Earned Big 12 runner of the week on September 20th…Placed second overall with personal best with a 23:39.1 8K at the Gans Creek Classic… Placed 30th at the Big 12 Championship with a time of 25:30.9 … Earned All-Midwest Region honors at the NCAA Midwest regional by placing 21st with a time of 30:04.3.
2022 OUTDOOR (So.)
Ran the 5,000 meters at the Texas Relays, placing 6th in 14:02.50 … Ran the 1,500 meters at the Sun Angel Classic placing third in 3:50.17 … Ran a personal best 13:59.81 at the Mt. Sac Relays, placing 17th overall … Placed eighth in the 5,000 meters at the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, finishing in 14:24.49.
2022 INDOOR (So.)
Opened the indoor season at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular, placing third in the mile in 4:13.26 and fourth in the 3,000 meters in 8:36.97 … Won both the mile (4:12.16) and DMR at the Jayhawk Classic … Placed third in the mile at the Sevigne Husker Invitational, finishing in 4:06.69 … Ran a personal best mile in 4:06.48 at the Big 12 Championship, placing 10th … Placed in the men’s DMR at the Big 12 Championship, finishing in 10:07.48.
2021 OUTDOOR (Fr.)
Opened his first outdoor season at the ORU Invite, placing first in the 5,000 meters in 14:32.23 … Ran a personal best 3:48.57 in the 1,500 meters at the Tom Botts Invitational, placing fourth … Placed sixth in the 1,500 meters at the Michael Johnson Invitational in 3:50.44 … Ran a personal best 5,000 meter time of 14:05.74, placing 11th at the John McDonnell Invitational … Ran a personal best 29:38.52 in the 10,000 meters at the Big 12 Championship, placing ninth … Also placed 10th in the 5,000 meters at the Big 12 Championship, finishing in 14:13.85.
2021 INDOOR (So.)
Ran a personal best 8:10.23 in the 3,000 meters at the Iowa State, finishing third overall … Placed seventh overall in the 3,000 meters at the Big 12 Indoor Championship, finishing in 8:18.77 … Also placed in the Distance Medley Relay at the Big 12 Championship, placing third in 9:58.08.
2021 CROSS COUNTRY (Jr.)
Finished 55th at the FSU Invite/Pre-Nationals in Tallahassee, Florida.
2020 CROSS COUNTRY (So.)
Competed for the first time this season at the Cowboy Jamboree (10/3) … Ran to a 33rd-place finish in the 8K on the OSU Cross Country Course in a time of 25:32.6.
2020 INDOOR (Fr.)
Made his indoor debut at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular (1/18), winning the 3,000 meters in 8:32.96 … Ran a personal best in the mile at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational (2-7-2/8), finishing in 4:16.35 … Ran a 3k personal best at the Iowa State Classic (2/14-2/15), placing eighth in 8:17.54 … Was part of the KU Distance Medley Relay team that placed third at the Big 12 Indoor Championship (2/28-2/29), finishing in 10:02.87 … Also ran the 3,000 meters at the Big 12 Indoor Championship, placing eighth in 8:19.62.
2019 CROSS COUNTRY (Fr.)
In his first official race as a Jayhawk, was KU’s first finisher at the Pre-National Invitational (10/19), crossing the finish line in 24:14.2 to place 33rd among a field of 257 of some of the best runners in the nation in the Men’s 8K Blue Race … Helped lead the men’s team to a top-20 finish at Pre-Nationals, where they placed 19th out of 38 teams with 532 points … For the second-straight meet, was the Jayhawks’ first runner to cross the finish line at the Big 12 Championship (11/2) … His 8K time of 24:06.0 propelled Gibbens to a 12th-place finish and as one of the top-15 overall runners, he earned a place on the All-Big 12 Team (one of only two freshmen to make the team) … Led the men’s team to a fourth-place finish with 92 points … As one of the top-25 finishers in each race, earned All-Region honors with his 21st-place finish in 31:26.2 at the NCAA Division I Midwest Region Cross Country Championships (11/15) in Stillwater, Oklahoma … Best finish (one of three) for a KU runner at a Regional Meet since 2015 … Collectively, Kansas ran to a third-place team finish at the OSU Cross Country Course, which marked the men’s highest finish at a Regional meet since 2006.
HIGH SCHOOL
Won a combined eight letters in cross country and track & field under the guidance of head coach Pete Doll at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri … The Kewpies were the 2018 Sectional Cross Country Champions as well as the 2019 District Champions in track & field … A school record holder in four events: 3,200 meters (9:19), the 4×800-meter relay (7:49), the Distance Medley Relay (10:29) and the Sprint Medley Relay (3:33) … Named the Hickman Athlete of the Year in 2019 … A 2019 member of the Hickman Hall of Fame … A National AP Scholar … The Jerome A. Sally Award recipient.
PERSONAL
Son of Kevin and Whitney Gibbens … Has three older siblings: Brynden, Christian and Colin … Plans to major in political science and attend law school.