Chico State Athletics

Cross Country Honors
2012 All-CCAA (Finished 13th)

2012-13: Earned All-CCAA honors while finishing 13th at the CCAA Cross Country Championships...Won the team’s post season 5k Time Trial in a 14:51 PR...Placed 39th at the Santa Clara Bronco Invite with a 24:51 8k XC PR...Was the ‘Cats 8th finisher at the West Coast Invitational, where he placed 36th overall respectively...On the track Graber redshirted his junior season but produced some impressive Pr’s...At the Chico Twilight meet Graber produced a 3:54.1 PR for the 1500m distance...Placed third overall at the SF Distance Carnival in the steeple with a 9:17 PR...Finished 2nd at the Wildcat Invite in the 1500m...Won the Kim Duyst 1500m with a sub-60 final lap to open the season.

2011-12: Cross country redshirt after transferring from nearby Butte Community College...Finished 18th at Humboldt Invite…Placed 46th at Willamette Invite with 25:35 8k PR...Placed 17th at Santa Clara Bronco Invite… Finished 23rd at Davis’ Doc Adams Invite with a 25:19 PR for 8K...Completed season with a solid 14:54 5K track time trial…Ran the spring season in uniform on the track, concentrating on the steeple and 1,500-meter events...Opened season with 3rd place finish at Kim Duyst Invite recording a 9:42 steeple PR...Ran an 8:45 PR for 3K at the Aggie Invite...Hit big 1,500-meter PR of 3:55 at the Wildacat Invite placing 4th overall...Ran a big steeple PR of 9:23 at San Francisco State Distance Carnival despite hitting and falling over a barrier…Ran 3:57 1,500 and 15:06 5K at the Chico Distance Carnival… Finished season on disappointing note at CCAA Championships where he ran into the final barrier while running just meters behind teammates Miles Dunbar and Alex McGuirk, who would go on to finish 1-2. The injured Graber limped across the line in 7th, still picking up valuable points for the team on the way to the conference title.

Pre-Chico: A local standout at Chico High and Butte College, Graber has enjoyed a very large improvement curve…As a sophomore at Butte, Graber finished fifth at the Nor Cal Cross Country Championships and qualified for the State Championships where he finished 55th overall, posting a time of 21:27…On the track Graber finished fifth in the 1,500 meters at the NorCal Championships to qualify for the State Championships where he placed eighth.

Personal Best Marks:
8K XC – 24:51
1,500m – 3:54.1
5,000m – 14:51
Steeplechase – 9:17