From eastern Washington snow to Oklahoma heat to the hills of Virginia, nothing slows down Kyle King.
It’s official. Kyle King is a certified, Grade-A stud.
After three very impressive seasons running cross country and track at Eastern Washington University, King reached a whole new level Saturday. Running his first race for the University of Oklahoma, the fourth-ranked cross country squad in the entire nation, the former Wolf tasted the elite level of his sport.
A five-time state track champ during his days at Coupeville High School, the fifth-year senior debuted as a Sooner at the Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational in Earlysville, Virginia. Using a strategy of having one runner make a play for the top spot, while the remainder of the Sooner squad ran as a tight pack, Oklahoma dominated, thrashing nine other teams, including two other ranked squads in No. 21 Michigan and No. 22 Arkansas.
King finished 14th out of 87 runners, covering an 8K course in 24 minutes, 32.6 seconds. He and his pack picked up the pace at every mark, with King vaulting from 26th at the two-mile mark to 18th at the 5K mark to his final spot, mashed into a group running as one.
Kemoy Campbell of Arkansas took the race in 24:04.7, narrowly edging out Oklahoma’s Bill Kogel.
Coupeville Sports 
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