Corban Athletics

2024: Fastest personal 8k time for the season was marked 30:08:0 at the 49th Charles Bowles Willamette Invitational…NAIA Daktronics Scholar Athlete…Platz 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 29:28.1 at the 48th Charles Bowles Willamette Invitational…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: Platz travels to the Willamette Valley to become a Warrior from the eastern side of Oregon, growing up in Union and participating in both boys’ cross country and track & field at the local high school. He was a part of the team OSAA Cross Country State Championship that the program secured in 2021, as well as the state championship his team secured in non-OSAA sanctioned meets during the 2022 season.

He will be majoring in journalism at Corban with intentions of becoming either an author or reporter.