NAPERVILLE – Carthage senior Jacob Curulewski was the winner of the Gil Dodds Invitational last Saturday in Warrenville, Ill. and was named College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Men’s Cross Country Student-Athlete of the Week on Tuesday afternoon.
The Downers Grove, Ill. native ran an 8K time of 24:41 at St. James Farm Forest Preserve. His time was 17 seconds ahead of the runner-up and also marked an 80-second improvement from the same race last year. Curulewski's performance helped lead Carthage to a second-place finish out of 20 teams, including four from the CCIW.
2025 CCIW Men's Cross Country Student-Athletes of the Week
Sept. 23: Jacob Curulewski, Carthage
Sept. 16: Ari Elmayan, North Central
Sept. 9: BJ Sorg, North Central
Sept. 3: David Valkanov, Elmhurst
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill.), Carroll University (Waukesha, Wis.), Carthage College (Kenosha, Wis.), Elmhurst University (Elmhurst, Ill.), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, Ill.), Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.), North Central College (Naperville, Ill.), North Park University (Chicago, Ill.) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.).