KENOSHA Wisc. - Junior CJ Johnson (Baltimore, Md.) became Daemen's first male athlete to compete at the NCAA Division II National Championships on Saturday at the Wayne E. Dannehl National Cross Country Course. He finished 211th overall out of 259 runners with a 10K time of 32:53.4 and was 22nd out of runners who qualified for the event as individuals.
 
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Johnson punched his ticket to the National Championships as one of the at-large participants from non-qualifying teams. The junior placed seventh overall at the East Regional Championships earlier this month and earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Region honors for the second time in his career. Johnson missed last year's Regional Championships due to injury, but was an All-Region performer as a freshman in 2023.
 
The Baltimore native's season also featured an individual victory at the East Coast Conference Championships in October. Johnson was the first male Daemen runner to win at a conference championship meet, and was the first Daemen male to be named ECC Most Outstanding Runner, while also garnering a First Team All-ECC selection.
 
Johnson was Daemen's leading finisher in five of the six events in which the Wildcats competed this season in a campaign that goes down as one of, if not the, best by an individual in program history, capped off by today's participation in the National Championships. Daemen University features the premier NCAA Division II athletics program in the Buffalo-Niagara region, sponsoring 17 intercollegiate teams. For the latest information on Daemen Athletics, follow the Wildcats via social media on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, or sign up to receive customizable news alerts, e-mail newsletters and weekly schedule alerts.
 
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