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2023 Cross Country Roster

Penny Nichols
Penny Nichols
Penny Nichols
Penny Nichols

Levi Chambers

  • Height 6-1
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Evans, Colo.
  • Highschool Frontier Academy

Biography





2023-2024: Cross Country – completed XC eligibility in the 2022 season, but did run unattached in getting 4th in the Naimadu Classic at ACU’s Zoe Park. Will compete in both indoors and outdoors this spring.
2022-2023: Cross Country – led the Wildcat charge in every single XC race this year. Finished 6th in the Big Country XC Festival; 3rd in the Lumberjack Collegiate Invitational; 42nd in the prestigious Chile Pepper XC Festival in Fayetteville; and 91st in the Weis-Crockett Inv (the Pre-national race run on the course that would host the national meet this year). Levi would then come back and place 15th in the WAC championship – the first time he has made the all-conference team, with a time 45 seconds faster than he ran at the championship in 2021. He finished the XC season by finishing 28th at the South Central Region meet – 45 places higher than he finished in 2021 and a PR time of over 1.5 minutes, running a 31:38.3 over the 10-kilometer course. Indoors - placed 4th at the Pittsburg State Inv in the 3k with a new PR of 8:23.95. That was followed by a 4th place finish at the Gorilla Classic in the 5k with a PR of 14:30.00. However, the season ended on a down note as he was injured running the 5k at the WAC Indoor Championship. Outdoors - only able to compete in 1 outdoor meet after being injured in the WAC indoor meet and did not compete at the WAC outdoor championship.

2021-2022: Cross country – Finished 26th at the WAC Championship, as well as placing 73rd at the South Central Region…also finished 5th in the Naimadu Classic to open the season. Indoors – placed 7th in the 5k and 11th in the 3k at the WAC Championships… also finished1st in the Corky Classic 3k and 1st in the Pittsburg State Inv 5k in a PR time of 14:43.29....Outdoors – Finished 8th in the 10k and 10th in the 5k at the WAC Championships (running an outdoors PR time of 14:44.21 in the 5k), as well as getting 23rd in the Bryan Clay Invitational 10k with a PR time of 29:54.41

2020-2021: Cross Country - finished 39th in the SLC Championship. Indoors – did not compete – pandemic redshirt for all athletes. Outdoors – finished 13th in the 10k, 16th in the steeplechase, and 21st in the 5k at the SLC Championships.

2019-2020: Cross Country - 59th in the SLC championships. Indoors – 6th in the SLC Distance Medley Relay, running the leadoff 1200 meter leg.  Outdoors – season cancelled due to pandemic.

2018-2019: Cross Country: 25th SLC XC, plus 8th at the Naimadu Classic to open the season. Indoors/outdoors: Redshirted both indoors and outdoors after his strong debut in XC.

Before ACU: At the Colorado 3A state meet, Levi was 5th in the 800 and 18th in the 3200 as a HS senior. As a Junior, Levi was 9th in both the 1600 and 3200 at the Colorado 3A state. He was Academic All-State 3 years in T&F, as well as playing basketball.

Personal: Levi is a 2018 graduate of Frontier Academy in Greeley, CO. Levi received his BA in Christian Studies in May, 2022 (making the Dean’s List in every semester of undergrad) and is currently enrolled in the Master of Divinity program. He is also the Youth and Family minister at The Well in Abilene. His parents are Arron and Rhonda Chambers....his father is a 2000 ACU graduate with his MA in Biblical Studies from the Graduate School of Theology. His Father competed in basketball for Florida Christian College, as well as his Mother playing volleyball at Florida Christian College. His brother, Sylas, competes for Milligan College, where he was 19th in the 800 at the NAIA National Outdoor Championship in 2023. 
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2018Freshman

    6'1"
  • 2019Sophomore

    6'1"
  • 2020-21Junior

    6'1"
  • 2021Junior

    6'1"
  • 2022Senior

    6'1"
  • 2023Graduate Student

    6'1"