Rivers Claims Third Career Weekly Track Honor

Culver-Stockton College senior Jabez Rivers has been named the WinWon Heart of America Athletic Conference Track Athlete of the Week for the second time this season. 

Rivers, of Phenix, Ala. (Central HS / Iowa Wesleyan University), received his second weekly honor this season and the third of his career after his performances at the Grand View Vikings Classic and the Drake Relays last weekend.

Despite a field of only five competitors, Rivers claimed the 110-meter hurdles at Grand View in a time of 14.97 seconds Friday, defeating an all-conference hurdler and a national qualifier.

Prior to running at Grand View, Rivers ran two events at the Drake Relays, helping the Wildcats to break the school's sprint medley relay record with a 48.9 second split on the 400-meter leg of the event (200, 200, 400, 800). Rivers also ran for the Wildcats' 4x100 relay team that morning at the Drake Relays.

Rivers, a national outdoor qualifier in the 110 hurdles a year ago, and the rest of the C-SC track and field team will participate in the Heart of America Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships this Friday and Saturday, May 2-3, at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo.