Shepherd University Athletics

8K Personal Record: 33:18.3

2025: Placed fifth (75^th overall, 26:54.0) on the team at the Shenandoah Twilight Race… Placed fifth (41st overall, 34:39.40) on the team Don Cathcart Invitational…Placed sixth  (288^th overall, 34:37.47), on the team at the Lehigh University Paul Short Invitational… Placed sixth  (284^th overall, 33:18.3) on the team at the Aubrey Shank Invitational… Placed sixth (153^rd overall, 34:38.4) on the team at the PSAC Championship…


2023: Placed 8th (82nd overall, 33:17.2) on the team at the D2/D3 Challenge … placed seventh  (80th overall, 31:38.5) at the Don Cathcart Invitational… placed sixth (220th overall, 31:36.6) at the Aubrey Shenk Invitational  … placed seventh (136th overall, 33:10.0) at the PSAC Championship.

2022: Placed fifth (80th overall, 23:58.3) on the team at the Galen Piper XC Invitational … placed fifth (127th overall, 32:51.10) at the DII/DIII Challenge … placed fourth (356th overall, 30:34.10) in the Lock Haven Invitational … placed sixth (129th overall, 31:30.5) on the team in the Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle … placed sixth (138th overall, 32:01.9) in the PSAC Championships … placed seventh (157th overall, 38:30.1) at the Atlantic Regionals. 

Prior to Shepherd: A 2022 graduate of Howard High School where he ran cross country for Zack Dickerson ... lettered in cross country and track and field ... had a 1600 time of 4:56, a three mile time of 16:52, and a 5K time of 17:03.

Personal: The son of Liz and Brian Yankle ... is undecided upon a major ... his mother, Liz Yankle, is a 1995 Shepherd graduate.