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2025 YSU Cross Country Roster

Robert Hayes
Robert Hayes

Blaze Fichter

Blaze Fichter

  • Class:
    Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown:
    North Canton, Ohio
  • Highschool:
    Hoover

Summary

Biography

2024 (Redshirt Sophomore): Competed in five races during the season…First Team All-Horizon League selection…Notched a seventh-place finish at the Horizon League Championships with an 8K time of 24:38 (11/2)…Ran a season-best 10K time of 30:38 as he finished 58th at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championships (11/15)…Ran a season-best 8K time of 23:50 at the Arturo Barrios Invitational (10/18)…Clocked an 8K time of 24:18 at the Joe Piane Invitational Blue Race (10/4)…Ran an 8K time of 27:02 at the Roy Griak Invitational Gold Race (9/20).

2023 (Redshirt Freshman): Competed in five races on the season…Named Second Team All-Horizon League…Finished 11th at the Horizon League Championships with an 8k time of 24:42.3, helping the Penguins to their second-consecutive Horizon League title (10/28)…Was YSU’s third-fastest finisher at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional, clocking the fifth-fastest 10k time in YSU history of 31:23.0 (11/10)…Ran the sixth-fastest 8k time in YSU history at the Texas A&M Arturo Barrios Invitational, finishing 74th with a time of 24:29.8 (10/13)…Competed in the Blue Race at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational, clocking a 5-mile time of 25:20.5 (9/29)…Finished 51st at the Penn State Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational with a 5.2-mile time of 27:04.5 (9/8). 

2022 (Freshman): Redshirted.

High School: Finished 10th at the D-1 Ohio State Cross Country Championships in Nov. 2021 with a time of 15:28.40...Owns a personal-best mark of 15:27.22 in the 5k, the 15th-fastest in the state of Ohio for the 2021 cross country season...On the track, ran a 4:17.62 in the 1600m at the D-I Ohio State Track and Field Championships in 2021, the fourth-fastest among all juniors and 11th-best overall.

Personal: Is a 2024-25 recipient of the Joseph F. Malmisur Athletic Scholarship. 

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  • 2023Redshirt Freshman

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  • 2025Redshirt Junior