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2025 Men's Cross Country Roster

Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI
Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI
Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI
Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI
Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI
Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI
Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI
Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI
Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI
Elizabeth Courtney Randolph/USI

Cole Hess

  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Cannelton, IN
  • Highschool Perry Central
  • Major Manufacturing Engineer Technology

Biography

2024-25
2024 CROSS COUNTRY

• Toed the starting line in five meets, running top-seven for the Eagles four times.
• Was USI's No. 6 finisher at the OVC Championships, finishing 23rd overall.
• Named to OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2024-25 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD
• Appeared in six meets, competing in the 800 meters, the 1,000 meters, the mile, the 3,000 meters and on USI's 4x400-meter and distance medley relay teams.
• Scored for the Eagles in three different events at the OVC Indoor Championships.
• Had a podium finish after helping USI's DMR team to a third-place showing at the league meet.
• Was fifth in the 800 meters at the OVC Championships.
• Helped USI's 4x400-meter relay team to a sixth-place finish with a school-record time of 3:26.59 at the conference meet.
• Named to OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2025 OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD
• Raced in one meet, posting a time of 1:53.82 in the 800 meters at the season-opening WashU Distance Carnival.
• Named to OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll.

2023-24
2023 CROSS COUNTRY
• Competed in all five events for the Eagles.
• Saved his best race of the season for the OVC Championship with a time of 25:11.84 and a 43rd-place finish.
• Named to the OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2023-24 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD
• Broke the school's indoor record in the 800 meters with his first-place time of 1:53.17 at the ISU Open.
• Ran the second-fastest mile time on the team at 4:15.89.
• Place fifth in the 3,000 meters at the IUPUI Invitational.
• Earned the program's first men's OVC Freshman of the Week honor in February.
• Named to the OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2024 OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD
• Did not compete.

2022-23
2022 CROSS COUNTRY
• Did not compete.
2022-23 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD
• Did not compete.
2023 OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD: E
• Helped USI's 4x400-meter relay team to an eighth-place at the OVC Outdoor Championships.
• Was 10th in the 800 meters at the OVC Outdoor Championships with a season-best time of 1:55.02.
• Finished third in the 1,500 meters at the SIUC Bill Cornell Invite following a personal-best time of 4:04.35.
• Competed in the 800 meters at the EKU Rick Erdmann Twilight, finishing fifth.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
• Graduated from Perry Central High School in Leopold, Indiana, where he earned letters in cross country, basketball, track, and baseball.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Freshman

  • 2023Freshman

  • 2024Sophomore

  • 2025Junior