Lanning is a senior from Waitsburg, Wash.
At the WSU Invite meet hosted by Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., he finished fourth in the heptathlon with a season best 4,447 points which moved him to 11th in the NAIA. He won the seventh event of the heptathlon, the 1,000 meter.
Also nominated and listed in alphabetical order; Zebadiah Boos of the University of Providence and Bridger Kimber of Rocky Mountain College.