WC’s Heys becomes 3-time first-team All-American

On a wet night at SPIRE Institute in the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships last weekend, Wilmington Quakers graduate student Simon Heys began his first event of the championships, the 10,000-Meter Run.

Heys finished the race in eighth place with a time of 29:44.82 to score one point for Wilmington as a team. Through the first three miles of the race, Heys sat in fourth place, as he looked to crack the top five for the third season in a row.

He fell back a few positions over the final miles of the race to originally finish in ninth place. However, a violation by the initial winner Nathan Tassey caused him to be disqualified and pushed Heys up to the eighth position and First-Team All-American status for the third season in a row in the event.

This disqualification gave North Central College’s Braden Nicholson the National Championship in the event with a time of 29:20.60.