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2013 Track and Field Media Guide
26 Olympians Produced
15 Individual National Champions
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Brian Dixon
Indoor: Junior
Outdoor: Sophomore
XC: Junior
Springfield, Ill.
Track:
2011-12:
Named to the Capital One Academic All-District
team...Did not compete in the outdoor season...Participated in
three meets in two events in the indoor season (Mile, 3000m)...
Best finish came at the Saluki Invitational where he finished
sixth in the 3000m.
2010-11:
Competed in nine meets during the indoor and out-
door season...Earned a first place finish in the 3000m at the SIU
Invitational with a time of 8.41:07...Placed third at the Joey
Haines Invitational and Memphis Tiger Invitational in the 5000m
and 3000m, respectively...Participated in the MVC Indoor and
Outdoor Championships.
Cross Country:
2012:
NCAA Qualifier...All-MVC...MVC Scholar-Athlete...
Four-time MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Week (Sep. 26, Oct. 3,
17 and 31)...19th-place finish at NCAAMidwest Regionals qual-
ified him to run in the national meet, where he finished 143rd...
First Saluki to qualify for NCAA Championship Meet since Jeff
Schirmer in 2009...In the remaining four meets, never finished
worse than seventh...Finished second at the Saluki Invitational...
best 8K time came at the Bradley Classic on Oct. 12, where he
clocked in at 24:37.
2011:
Competed in six meets for the Salukis...Only finished out-
side the top ten in two of them...Out of his four top ten finishes,
three of them were in the top five, including two second place
finishes...Of those second place finishes, his best time came at
the Saluki Invitational with a time of 25:45.9...Placed ninth at
the MVC Championship...Had the top Saluki men’s finish at
the NCAA Regional with his 37th place finish...Finished season
with an average finish of 15.8...Named the Missouri Valley
Conference’s Athlete of the Week and the MVC Scholar Athlete
of the Week, both for the week of Sep. 13...Named to the MVC
Scholar-Athlete team and the All-MVC squad...Named an MVC
Elite 18 athlete, which is awarded to the athlete with the highest
cumulative GPA at each of the Missouri Valley’s 18 conference
championships.
2010:
Competed in four meets for SIU in 2010...Posted an 18th
place finish at the MVC Championship with a time of 25:34.53...
Posted a season-best time of 25:26.40 at the Bradley Classic,
where he finished 55th.
Distance Bios
Personal Bests
Indoor
Outdoor
Mile - 4:23.11
1500m - 4:11.66
3000m - 8:37.30
3000m - 8:40.63
5000m - 15:01.98
10,000m - 31:46.71
Brian Dixon, continued
High School:
Named all-conference in track three times at
Glenwood High School...Earned all-state honors in the 3200m
with a ninth place finish...Notched a person-best time of 4:28 in
the 1600m...Went to same high school as World Series champion
and MLB All-Star Jayson Werth.
Personal:
Born Nov. 8, 1991, in Springfield, Ill...Son of Tim and
Joy Dixon...Father is an engineer and mother is a nurse...Major-
ing in accounting.
Evan Ehrenheim
Indoor: Sophomore
Outdoor: Sophomore
XC: Sophomore
Owensboro, Ky.
Track:
2011-12:
Competed in four events in eleven meets combined
in the indoor and outdoor seasons (Mile, 3000m, 5000m,
10,000m)...Notched six combined top-ten finishes...Best finish of
the year came in the 10,000m race at the MVC Outdoor Champi-
onships, where his time of 31:38.61 earned him fifth place.
Cross Country:
2012:
MVC Scholar-Athlete...Finished outside of the top-20
only once, at the NCAAMidwest Regionals (83rd)...Notched
two top-ten finishes...Best finish came of third place at the EIU
Walt Crawford Open on Sep. 7...Best 8K time of 24:58 was
clocked at the Bradley Classic on Oct. 12.
2011:
Participated in all seven meets in the 2011 season, two
unattached and five as a member of the Salukis...His two best
finishes of the season came unattached at the SIU Early Bird
(fourth place) and the Walt Crawford Open (sixth)...Had an aver-
age finish of 40.4.
High School:
Academic all-state honoree sophomore and junior
year...Placed third at state meet and named first team all-state
junior year...Senior year state cross country champion as well as
being named Gatorade Kentucky Runner of the Year.
Personal
: Full name is Evan Joseph Ehrenheim...Born July 17,
1992 in Fort Wayne, Indiana...Son of Dean and Jeanette Ehren-
heim...Majoring in engineering.
Personal Bests
Indoor
Outdoor
Mile - 4:28.19
3000m - 8:58.45
3000m - 8:44.60
5000m - 15:06.40
5000m - 15:02.94
10,000m - 31:38.61