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GENEVA, Ohio -- North Central's Dhruvil Patel earned a national title and Wheaton's Aryn Embretson picked up an all-America honor during Day One of the 2019 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the SPIRE Institute.

Patel, a senior from Skokie, Illinois and Nile North High School, won the men's 10,000-meter run for the second-straight season as he clocked a time of 30:14.05, just edging out second place finisher Lucas Mueller of Carleton, who finished with a time of 30:14.26. Patel is now a five-time individual national champion as he also claimed the top spot in the 2018 and 2019 indoor 5,000-meter run, as well as the individual title at the 2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships last November. 

Embretson, a senior from Eagan, Minnesota and Eagan High School, took fourth in the women's 10,000-meter run as she posted a time of 36:23.63, which was nearly eight seconds faster than sixth-place finisher Kate MacCary of Middlebury (36:31.54).
The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carroll University (Waukesha, WI), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). During the 2017-18 academic year, the CCIW honored over 2,100 academic all-conference recipients, 15 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 28 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients, and over 100 all-Americans.