2024-2025: Cross Country – Jacob competed for ACU in 5 XC meets, including both meets during championship season. He finished in 56th place in the WAC Championship held in Orem, UT, and 135th in the South Central Region Championship meet in College Station, where he ran a personal best of 33:11 over the 10K course. In both championship meets, Jacob was the #6 finisher for the Wildcats. Indoors – did not compete. Outdoors – competed in 4 meets on the oval, including a 9 th place finish in the 5K at the J Fred Duckett Twilight at Rice – running a personal best time of 15:21.04. He wrapped up the year at the WAC Outdoor Championship with a 13 th place finish, in a new best time of 32:39.81.

2023-2024: Cross Country – competed in 5 meets for the Wildcats, highlighted by finishing 146 th  (#3 ACU finisher) at the prestigious Chile Pepper XC Festival in Fayetteville. He also finished 75 th  at the WAC Championships, where he was the #7 finisher for ACU. Indoors – competed in 3 meets for ACU, but did not compete in the WAC Championship. A highlight indoors was a 9 th place finish in the Charlie Thomas Invitational 3K in College Station with a PR time of 8:49.81. Outdoors – ran in 3 meets for ACU, including a 5 th place finish in the Corky/Crofoot Invitational at Texas Tech. He did not compete in the WAC Championship.

2022-2023: Cross Country - ran the Big Country XC Festival unattached planning to redshirt the season, but the redshirt was removed after that meet and Jacob competed in the remaining 5 meets for ACU. He finished 58 th  in the WAC Conference meet (#4 ACU finisher and the 10 th  best freshman finisher in the entire field) and completed the season by placing 125 th  in the South Central Region meet. Indoors – redshirted. Outdoors – redshirted the season, but competed in 4 meets unattached, including getting 2 nd  in the 1500 at the War Hawk Classic at McMurry and running a PR of 15:31.33 at the J Fred Duckett Invitational at Rice University.

Before ACU: Competing for Liberty Hill HS, Jacob placed 29 th  in the District 25-5A XC meet in fall, 2021. On the track, Jacob placed 5 th  in the District 25-5A 800 in spring, 2022. He was Academic All-State in both XC and T&F.

Personal: 2022 graduate of Liberty Hill HS. He is an Information Systems major scheduled to graduate in the Spring of 2025 and also a member of the Honors College at ACU, plus a Dean’s List member each of his semesters at ACU. His parents are Shelby Russell and Reagan Russell.