Joel Brunner

Distance
Senior
De Pere, Wis. (West De Pere)

2008:  Finished ninth in the 1,500-meter run (4:02.41) at the CCIW Outdoor Track and Field Championship…finished ninth in the 800-meter run (2:00.49) at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship. 

2007:  Finished 18th in the 1,500-meter run (4:13.75) at the CCIW Outdoor Track and Field Championship...finished 12th in the 800-meter run (2:08.13) at the Wisconsin Private College Outdoor Track and Field Championship.

2006:  Season-best time of 16:18.00 in the 5,000-meter run at the Elmhurst Invitational and 10:34.50 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Augustana (Ill.) “Meet of Champions”…part of an indoor distance medley relay team that competed at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship.

High School:  Named second-team All-Bay Conference his senior year in the 800-meter run and first-team all-conference as a member of the 1,600-meter relay team…a state qualifier his senior year in the 1,500-meter run and part of two state-qualifying 1,600-meter relay squads…part of a school-record 3,200-meter relay team as a senior…named Green Bay Press-Gazette honorable mention all-area both his junior and senior years…coached by Richard Visitainer…in cross country, earned first-team all-conference honors his senior year and second-team al-conference as a junior…honorable mention all-area both his junior and senior seasons…coached by Richard Visintainer…lettered in basketball his junior and senior years and played soccer his freshman and sophomore years…honor student.

Personal:  Environmental science major…member of the 2005-07 Carthage men’s cross country teams?his father, Kevin Brunner, is a 1977 Carthage graduate and ran cross country for the Red Men…his sister, Allison Brunner, played soccer at Wisconsin-Green Bay…named to the spring 2006 Carthage dean’s list and a four-semester member of the Carthage athletic director’s honor roll…born April 21, 1987.