BURNSVILLE, Minn. – Senior Steven Brown of the No. 11 University of Sioux Falls Men's Cross Country Team, who won the Roy Griak Invite Saturday (Sept. 28), has earned the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Men's Athlete of the Week honor, according to an announcement today by the league office.

Brown, an exercise science major from Orangevalle, Calif., earned his first NSIC Men's Cross Country Weekly honor. At the Roy Griak Invite, Brown clocked a 25:03.0 to become USF's third straight individual champion at the highly competitive meet at the Les Bolstad Golf Course in St. Paul, Minn. He led three runners (Mason Phillips, 7^th; Zach Lundberg, 14) in the top 15 at the Cougars claimed third place in the team race with 96 points.

At the 2018 NSIC Championship, he became USF's third ever individual champion. He helped lead USF to the program's first-ever NSIC team title and part of the team that finished a program-best fifth at the NCAA DII National Cross Country Championships.

He owns the school outdoor record in the 10,000 meters (finished 16th of 29:54.61 at Mount Sac Relays on April 21, 2018) and ranks second all-time at USF in outdoor 5,000 meters with a 14:36.96 clocking in winning the NSIC title on May 11, 2018. He finished 11th (31.02.61) and earned second team All-American honors in the 10,000 meters at the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Charlotte, NC.

Brown, who is the second USF runner (Mason Phillips, Sept. 10) to earn the NSIC Weekly honor this fall, and his teammates will compete at the Lewis Conference Crossover on Oct. 12 in Romeoville, Ill.