2024 Men's Cross Country Roster
Biography
Cross Country
• 1-Time USTFCCCA All-Region (’22)
• 3-Time All-PSAC (’22 First Team, ’21 First Team, ’20 Second Team)
2022: PSACs (14th, No. 4) | Regionals (25th, No. 4)
2021: PSACs (13th, No. 3) | Regionals (32nd, No. 3)
2020: PSACs (26th, No. 5)
8K PR: 25:40.4 (Oct. 22, 2022, Go Fast River Run)
10K PR: 30:56.5 (Nov. 19, 2022, NCAA Atl. Regionals [Mansfield])
2022 (Sophomore): Continued his reign as a scoring runner for the squad… repeated as an All-PSAC First Team performer with a 14th-place finish as the team’s No. 4 runner…recorded his first USTFCCCA All-Region classification with a 25th-place finish at the regional championships as the team’s No. 4 runner…enhanced his 8K PR at the Paul Short Run and again by two additional seconds at Lock Haven’s Go Fast River Run…paced the team with a fourth-place overall finish at Mansfield’s Ed Winrow Invitational…ran in all seven of the team’s races, functioning as a scorer in six.
2021 (Freshman): Maintained his role as an integral scorer…emerged as an All-PSAC First Team performer with a 13th-place finish at the conference championships as the team’s No. 3 runner…also served as the team’s No. 3 runner in competition at the regional championships…established an 8K PR at the Paul Short Run…functioned as a Top 4 scoring runner for the team in all six of its races.
2020 (Freshman): Served as a scoring runner in all three of the team’s races during an abbreviated season held in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic…achieved an All-PSAC Second Team classification at the PSAC Championships with a 26th-place finish in which he was the team’s No. 5 runner…delivered turns as the team’s No. 4 runner with a fifth-place finish at the LHU Winter Invite and a seventh-place finish at the SU Invite.
Red Land High School: Totaled seven varsity letters spanning cross country and track & field for the Patriots under coach Larry Kell…qualified twice for the PIAA State Cross Country Championships, achieving the feat as a junior and senior…finished as a two-time District 3 Cross Country Championships medalist with an 18th-place finish as a junior and an 11th-place finish as a senior…was a four-time District 3 Cross Country Championships qualifier and a PIAA District 3 Outdoor Track & Field Championships qualifier in the 3,200 meters as a junior…named to the All-Carlisle Sentinel First Team Cross Country squad as a senior…graduated among the Top 10 percent of his senior class as a four-year distinguished honor roll member…competed on club teams for mountain biking and skiing.
About Gonder: Full name is Aiden James Gonder…is the son of Lee and Renee Gonder…majoring in mechanical engineering while seeking minors in mathematics and exercise science…has a brother, Bryce.
