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2021 Men's Cross Country Roster

Brent Smith
Brent Smith
Brent Smith

Clark Otte

  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Sheboygan Falls, Wis.
  • Highschool Sheboygan Falls

Biography

2021 Outdoor NCAA East Regional Qualifier (3,000-Meter Steeplechase)
2020-21 Cross Country BIG EAST Team Champion
2020-21 Cross Country All-BIG EAST Second Team
2019 Cross Country All-BIG EAST First Team
2019 Outdoor Track & Field All-BIG EAST (3,000-Meter Steeplechase)

College Bests (through Fall 2021 season):

1500m - 3:54.75, 2018 Vanderbilt Black & Gold (Outdoor)
Mile - 4:15.47, 2020 Gladstein Invite (Indoor)
3000m - 8:12.67, 2020 Iowa State Classic (Indoor)
5000m - 14:40.98, 2020 BIG EAST Indoor Track & Field Championships
2000 Steeplechase - 5:54.50, 2019 Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invitational (Outdoor)
3000 Steeplechase - 8:53.97, 2021 Virginia Grand Prix
6K (XC) - 17:49.1, 2021 Butler Twilight Meet
8K (XC) - 23:47.1, Spring 2021 BIG EAST Cross Country Championships
10K (XC) - 30:53.8, 2021 NCAA Division I Great Lakes Region Cross Country Championships
5 Mile (XC) - 24:07.5, 2021 Joe Piane Invitational

Collegiate Results:
https://www.tfrrs.org/athletes/6429873/Butler/Clark_Otte.html

2019 Cross Country: Ran a 31:38.1 at the Great Lakes Regional, taking 50th overall... Earned All-BIG EAST First Team after finishing ninth in the field with a time of 25:58.1... Finished 85th at NCAA Pre-Nationals in 24:43.0... Ran a 24:53 8K at the Panorama Farms Invitational taking 30th in the field... Won the Butler Twilight with a 6K time of 18:14.9. 

2018 Cross Country: At the NCAA Division I Great Lakes Regional, ran a 32:14.9, his personal best in the 10K, claiming 55th in the field... Took 17th at the BIG EAST Cross Country Championships with a time of 25:12.7... Posted a career-best 8K of 24:53.7 at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invite and placed 156th. 

2017 Cross Country:
Otte ran the BIG EAST Cross Country Championships race in 26:59.8 which landed him in 66th place… He finished 36th in the field at the Adidas D1 Pre Nationals after running the race in 25:02.1… In his first collegiate race, Otte placed 126th at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational after running the race in 25:40.1.

PRIOR TO BUTLER: All-Conference (three times), All-State (three times)...Team MVP twice...Team  Captain twice...13th at NXR Heartland, second at the WIAA Div. 2 State Meet in 2016, and sixth at the WIAA Div. 2 State Meet in 2015...his best 5k time of 15:16 as a senior is also a school record...also played soccer and basketball...4.00 High School GPA, Valedictorian, WIAA Scholar Athlete, WCCCA Academic All-State...high school coach: Tiffany Otte.

Son of Tiffany and Chuck Otte...has a brother, Will.

Historical Player Information

  • 2017Freshman

  • 2018Sophomore

  • 2019Junior

  • 2020-21Senior

  • 2021Redshirt Senior

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