Utah Valley University Athletics

At Utah Valley...

Junior (2018): Kicked off his junior year by coming in first at the UCR 38^th Annual Cross Country Invitational … clocked in a personal best in the 5M with 24:31.2 … took first place at the WAC XC Championship with a 24:02.1 time for the 8K … participated in the NCAA Division I Mountain Region Cross Country Championship and placed 68^th overall with 31:31.1, a personal best … named the WAC Men’s Athlete of the Year … received first team all-WAC honor … was named to the 2018 Academic All-WAC honors.

Sophomore (2017): Enjoyed a breakout sophomore season for the Wolverines with top-10 finishes in four regular season races… earned All-WAC first team honors for first time in career with third-place finish at the 2017 WAC Cross Country Championships…. placed second with a personal record in the 6K (18:33.4) at UNLV to help UVU record a perfect-score victory... was the second Wolverine to cross the finish line at the NCAA Mountain Regionals with 30th-place finish in his 10K debut.. finished eighth in the 8K at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational with a personal record of 23:51.8… took ninth in the 6K at the SUU Color Country Invite…  notched a seventh-place finish in the 8K at UC Riverside… named Walk-On of the Year at the 2018 Wolverine Club Athletic Awards... Academic All-WAC.

Freshman (2016): Logged a time of 27:27.3 at the 2016 WAC Championships to place 43rd overall in squad’s runner-up finish… finished the 8K at the Indiana State Pre-National Invitational with a time of 27:08.8… placed 36th at the SUU Color Country Invitational with a time of 20:06.9 in the 6K… recorded a time of 26:31.6 to finish 122nd in program’s first-ever victory at the Notre Dame Invitational in the five-mile Gold Race … placed 34th (22:52.9) in the 7K in season opener at the Utah State Sagebrush Invitational.

Before Utah Valley…
Lettered in cross country all four years at Hillcrest High School… a state qualifier every year of his career… UHSAA second-team all-state… voted Hillcrest Athlete of the Year.
 
Personal
Son of Jeff and Suzanne Lynch… has three brothers, Tyler, Jason and Peter, and a sister, Nicole… earned an associate’s degree at Salt Lake Community College… majoring in exercise science… wants to become a dentist… served a two-year LDS church mission in Louisville, Ky.