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2025 Men's Cross Country Roster

Brenna Barkley

Kyle Towne

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Sacramento, Calif.
  • High School Sheldon

Biography

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Overall Career Honors
  • 6x RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
As a Redshirt Sophomore (2024): Finished 42nd with an 8K time of 31:10.6 at the Mountaineer/Cowboy Open in Gunnison, his only race of the season… Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.

As a Redshirt Freshman (2023): Ran in the Mavs’ first two meets… Placed 23rd with a season-best 8K time of 26:19.2 at the Gig Leadbetter Maverick Stampede after placing 60th at the Mountaineer Invite... Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.

As a Freshman (2022): Redshirt season… Run unattached in two early-season meets… Finished 46th at the Mountaineer/Cowboy Invite and 47th at the Gig Leadbetter Maverick Stampede… Finished the latter in 27:33.6.

Prep: 2022 graduate of Sheldon High School… Was the Huskies’ Team MVP three times… Was a 3-time All-Delta League performer… Won the 800 meters at the Sacramento State High School Classic and the Delta League Championships… Was the runner-up in that event at the CIF San Joaquin Section Division I Finals before finishing fourth in the Section’s Masters race with a PR time of 1:57.12… Received the section’s scholar athlete award in 2022… Was also the Huskies’ 2021-22 Male Athlete of the Year… Set other PRs of 4:35 (1600), 16:13 (5K) and 52.36 (400) during his career… Finished 15th at the San Joaquin Subsections cross country meet in 2021 after placing 13th as a sophomore in 2019… Also finished sixth at the Delta League Championship that year.

Personal: Is majoring in civil engineering… Wants to have a field job in that field or work in construction management… Son of Bill and Laurie Towne… Has a younger sister named Kayla, who is running cross country and track for UC Davis… Enjoys running, biking, hiking and anything outdoors… Also enjoys going on road trips to national parks with his family.

Why I Chose CMU: “I chose CMU because of the opportunities it had for me both academically and athletically. Not only does it have a strong engineering program, it also has a great running program, with an ideal location to train. The close knit team and coaching staff made it feel like a place I could see myself staying in for the next 4-5 years.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Freshman

    6'0"
  • 2023Redshirt Freshman

    6'0"
  • 2024Redshirt Sophomore

    6'0"
  • 2025Redshirt Junior

    6'0"