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LeTourneau University Athletics

2016 Men's Cross Country Roster

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Taber Miyauchi

  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 142
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Grand Lake, Colorado
  • High School Middle Park HS

Biography

Career-Best Times:
5k: 16:56.9 - Demon Cross Country Invitational (Oct. 12, 2013)

8k: 27:56.8 - ASC Championships (Nov. 2, 2013)

2015 (as a junior): Named the Co-Male Athlete of the Year at LeTourneau University...earned first team CoSIDA Academic All-District and All-American honors...led LETU to a runner-up finish at the 2015 American Southwest Conference Cross Country Championships with a third-place finish...by virtue of his third-place finish, he was named first team all-ASC...posted four top five finishes on the season including winning the University of Dallas Invitational...team's top finisher at the NCAA South/Southwest Regional Cross Country meet with a 60th-place finish which is the best finish ever by a LETU men's runner.

2014 (as a sophomore): Ran in five meets for the YellowJackets...finished in the top 20 aming his teammates in all five meets...four times, he finished in the top 20...best finish was an eighth-place finish at the King Campbell Spectacular (Aug. 29)...clocked a season-best 8k time of 29:02.95 at the NCAA South/Southeast Regional Meet (Nov. 15)...top finisher for the YellowJackets at the King Campbell Spectacular (Aug. 29) and the UT Tyler Invitational (Sept. 6)...14th at the UT Tyler Invitational (Sept. 6, 17:08.22 - 5k) and 16th at the ASC Championships (Nov. 1, 29:15.08 - 8k)...125th at the NCAA South/Southeast Regional Meet (Nov. 15).

2013 (as a freshman): Earned second team all-American Southwest Conference with his eighth-place performance at the ASC Championships (Nov. 2)...clocked a season-best 8k time of 28:14.17 to lead LeTourneau to its best finish in program history...a top three finisher among his LeTourneau teammates in all six meets...10th (16:56.9) at the Demon Cross Country Invitational (Oct. 12)...16th (29:20.5) at the Centenary Invitational (Oct. 5)...2nd among his LeTourneau teammates and 106th overall at the NCAA South/Southeast Regional Meet (Nov. 16).

Prior to LeTourneau: Four-year letterwinner in cross country...finished eighth in the state as a senior.

Personal: Son of Greg and Joan Miyauchi...an engineering major.


Historical Player Information

  • 2013Freshman

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  • 2014Sophomore

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  • 2015Junior

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  • 2016Senior

    5'10" 142 lbs