2022 Men's Cross Country Roster

Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics

Ahmad Wilson

  • Height 5-9
  • Weight 150
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown New Orleans, La.
  • High School Brother Martin
  • Major Biology/Pre-Medical

Biography

Honors
•  All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference in cross country in 2019
•  GCAC Runner of the Week (Sept. 23-29, 2019)
•  GCAC Commissioner's Honor Roll in 2019-20
•  XULA men's cross country's NAIA Champions of Character honoree in 2019
•  XULA Sister Grace Mary Flickinger Honor Roll in 2019

Briefly
•  Second year at XULA

2020 Track and Field (Freshman)
•  Did not compete; outdoor season was canceled in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic

2019 Cross Country (Freshman)
•  Finished eighth at GCAC Championships — ran 8,000 meters in 33 minutes, 28.8 seconds — and named All-GCAC because of his top-10 finish
•  Helped XULA win GCAC men's team championship and an automatic bid to NAIA nationals
•  Chosen GCAC Runner of the Week after the Lake Charles Toyota Cowboy Stampede at Lake Charles, La., where he was the first Gold Rush finisher in the four-mile event
•  Was XULA's first finisher at NAIA National Championships in Vancouver, Wash.
•  Best season times: 17:59.2 for 5,000 meters, 25:26.5 for four miles and 33:08.9 for 8,000 meters

High School
•  Helped Brother Martin's cross country program win a pair of district championships and earn two state-runner-up finishes
•  In outdoor track he anchored the 3,200 relay team that finished fifth at the 2019 LHSAA Class 5A state meet and won regional and district championships
•  Best times were 2:07 in the open 800, 4:47 in the mile, 11:19 for two miles and 17:54 for three miles . . . His 800 split at the 2019 state track meet in the 3,200 relay was 1:59.05
•  Captain of cross country team his senior year
•  Made the honor roll multiple times
•  National Honor Society member
•  Earned a Golden Crusader leadership award his senior year

Club
•  Competed one year

Personal
•  Entered XULA with 150 service hours
•  President of his church's CYO group during his senior year at Brother Martin
•  His cousin, Louis Hillard, is a XULA graduate

Historical Player Information

  • 2019Freshman

    5'9" 150 lbs
  • 2020Sophomore

    5'9" 150 lbs
  • 2021Junior

    5'9" 150 lbs
  • 2022Senior

    5'9" 150 lbs