Corban Athletics

2024: Fastest personal 8k time for the season was marked 23:59:8 at the 49th Charles Bowles Willamette Invitational…NAIA National Championships 8th place finisher…Second All-American runner in school history…The sophomore earned All-Conference honors after finishing fourth at the 2024 CCC Championships and qualified for the 2024 NAIA National Championships… CCC men’s runner of the week…Gladfelter received CCC Academic All-Conference honors during the fall 2024 season…Member of the 2024 Corban Men’s Cross Country team that landed fourth overall at the Cascade Collegiate Conference Championships where they had two individual top ten finishes crowned as All-Conference runners and sent them to the NAIA National Championships in Columbia, Missouri. The team was also awarded CCC Team of the Week honors.

2023: Fastest personal 8k time for the season was marked 24:45.0 at Linfield Harrier Classic… Gladfelter achieved the 3rd fastest time in Corbans Men’s 8K Cross Country…Member of the 2023 Corban Men’s Cross Country team that finished tied for third overall at the Cascade Collegiate Conference Championships where they saw their first individual conference champion in school history crowned as well as two All-Conference runners. The program also qualified as a complete team for the NAIA National Championships for the first time in program history, where they finished 22nd overall.

Personal: Originally from Port Angeles, Washington, Gladfelter carries a high pedigree of athleticism from his high school career and family genetics, as he’ll become the third member of his family to compete in collegiate athletics (great great grandfather was a sprinter at the University of Florida, while his sister ran cross country at Eastern Washington University). He was a two-time league and district champion for Port Angeles High School and qualified for the state championships in all four years. In two of those state championships, he finished in the Top 10 (3rd and 10th place). Additionally, he holds three school records in the boys’ two-mile, three mile, and 5k races.

Gladfelter holds high aspirations entering his freshman year higher education, as he’ll be joining the business and marketing programs at Corban with hopes of pursuing a career as a professional runner or working in a professional sports organization.