GREENWOOD, Ind. – Cedarville senior Benjamin Tuttle was named the final Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week for the fall on Monday.
 
Tuttle won the individual title at the NCAA DII Midwest Regional in Evansville, Ind., on Saturday in record-setting fashion.
 
Tuttle ripped through the 10K course in a time of 30:30.37 to win the entire men's competition. He finished first overall with 215 total runners entered.
 
He was one of three individual qualifiers from the meet to nationally qualify, joining Indianapolis' Alex Cushman and Bellarmine's Chris Striegel.
 
Tuttle edged out Cushman by about a nine-second margin in the battle for first.
 
Tuttle shattered the G-MAC's all-time 10K record by about 30 seconds, bettering the 31:07.20 run by Matt Brooker in the 2013 NCAA Championship.
 
The top-25 runners also earned All-Midwest Region honors. Tuttle was joined on that short list by Trevecca Nazarene's Logan Rodgers, who finished second only to his friendly rival at the G-MAC Championship.
 
His decorated collegiate career continues and concludes at the NCAA DII Championships on Nov. 21, in Joplin, Mo.