2025 Men's Track and Field Roster

Nathaniel Gale

  • Position Distance
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Florence, MT
  • Highschool Florence-Carlton

Biography

SPU:  Three-year letterwinner. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2024.

Junior (2025):  INDOOR – Ran the 1600-meter anchor leg on the 6th-place 4000 distance medley relay at the GNAC Championships. ... Also placed 23rd in the 3000 at GNAC with a personal-best time of 9:23.86, a drop of 26-plus seconds. ... Opened the season with an indoor personal-best of 16:08.42 in the 5000 at the Spokane Invitational. ... Set a PB of 4:29.72 in the mile at the UW Mile City meet on Jan. 18. ... Ran in three of the four meets.   OUTDOOR – Placed 17th in the 10,000 at GNAC in 33:17.19. ... That was his third 10K of the season and also was his season-best time. His other 25-lappers were at the season-opening Ed Boitano Invitational on Feb. 28 and at the Mike Fanelli Track Classic on April 3. ... Raced the 1500 twice and the 5000 once.

Sophomore (2024):  INDOOR – Placed 15th in the 5000 at the GNAC Championships in Spokane with an indoor personal-best 16:15.05. … Ran his first indoor 5K at the season-opening Spokane Invitational on Dec. 9, going 16:14.22. … Raced his first indoor mile at the UW Invitational / Mile City meet on Jan. 27, finishing in 4:45.96.  OUTDOOR – Placed 16th in the 10,000 meters at GNAC in 34:30.64. … Started the season with a personal-best 33:33.01 in the 10K at the Ed Boitano Invitational in Tacoma on March 1. … Lowered that PB to 32:55.68 at the Beach Invitational in Long Beach, Calif., on April 13. … A week earlier on April 5 at the Doris Heritage Invitational in Renton, raced his best-ever 1500 in 4:11.31. That was his second PB of the season that event, topping the 4:20.75 he posted at the PLNU Invitational on March 23 in San Diego. … Ran his fastest ever 5000 with a 15:45.31 at the Ralph Vernacchia Invitational in Bellingham on April 27.
 
Freshman (2023):  INDOOR – Ran in one meet, placing 20th in the 3000 meters at the Spokane Invitational on Dec. 10 wth a time of 9:50.22.  OUTDOOR – Placed 11th in the 10,000 meters at the GNAC Championships on May 12, clocking 34 minutes, 36.31 seconds. ... Ran in eight regular-season meets, primarily in the longer events, with one race in the 3000, three in the 5000, and three in the 10,000. ... His first 10K at the season-opening Ed Boitano Invitational in Tacoma on March 3 was his fastest, as he clocked 33:35.62. ... Set a 5K personal-best of 15:53.34 at the Portland Twilgiht on May 6. ... Did his first outdoor mile at the Doris Heritage Track Festival in Renton on March 18, going 4:41.40. ... Had a pair of top-10 finishes, placing 6th in the 3000 at the CWU Wildcat Invitational in Ellensburg on April 22, and 4th in the 10K on April 29 at the Ralph Vernacchia Invitational in Bellingham.

Florence-Carlton High School: Went to the Montana state meet as a freshman, junior and senior (his sophomore season in 2020 was canceled by the coronavirus pandemic). ... Placed 5th in the 3200 and 7th in the 1600 as a senior in 2022; was 3rd in both races as a junior in 2021; and was 19th in the 32 and 21st in the 16 as a freshman in 2019. ... A week before state as a senior, won the Western B & C Divisional title in the 3200 with a personal-best 10:05.14. ... His junior year state time of 4:34.14 was a personal best. ... Won eight individual races -- four each in the 1600 and 3200 -- during his career.


INDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
Mile:  
         4:29.72 (1/18/2025)
3000:          9:23.86 (2/18/2025)
5000:        16:08.42 (12/14/2024)


OUTDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
800:  
          2:12.12 (3/18/2023)  
1500:          4:11.31 (4/5/2024)
Mile:           4:41.40 (3/18/2023)
3000:          9:19.36 (4/22/2023)
5000:        15:45.31 (4/27/2024)
10,000:     32:55.68 (4/13/2024)


CAREER RESULTS