Clayton State’s Mutiso set to compete in NCAA
Division II Men's Cross Country Championships
Laker junior aims to become Clayton State's first men's All-American in cross country

MORROW, Ga. – November 20, 2009 – Clayton State's Fidelis Mutiso approaches this season's NCAA Division II Men's Cross Country National Championships with the opportunity that no Laker male runner has ever achieved - All-American status.

Mutiso gets that opportunity on Saturday in Evansville, Ind., in the 2009 NCAA Division II National Championships. The men's race begins at 1 p.m., and for Mutiso to earn the elusive All-American for Clayton State, he will need to finish in the Top 40 in the field.

Mutiso, a junior from Nairobi, Kenya, earned All-Region honors this season for the first time in his Laker career. He’s enjoyed a banner season in which he’s won the Southern Challenge, placed fourth at the Peach Belt Conference Championships and seventh at the recent NCAA Division II Southeast Regionals. He also finished in the Top Five in two more meets.

Perhaps a key for Mutiso will be his familiarity with the national championship course. On Sept. 26 in the Pre-Nationals meet at the same course as he will run on Saturday, Mutiso finished 12th overall with a time of 26:28.08.