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Chase Kappeler Season 2024

ClassSenior
HometownSpringfield, Va.
High SchoolWest Springfield

2023: Finished fourth at the Hokie Open with a 4k time of 14:31.5... Placed eighth at the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational clocking in at 22:12.6 (6k).  

2022: Ran a 6k time of 22:16.8 at the NCAA Southeast Regional... Clocked in a season-best time of 21:51.4 (6k) at the ACC Championships... Posted a personal-best 5k time of 17:58.8 at the Panorama Farms XC23 Invitational. 

2021: Posted a 6k best of 21:44.1 at the NCAA East Prelims ... Won the 4k race at the Hokie Open with a PR time of 14:20.0 ... Delivered a lifetime best over five miles with a time of 18:04.5 at the Joe Piane Invitational ... Posted a time of 23:31.2 in the 6k race at the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational.

2020: Ran the 6K course at the ACC Championships in a time of 22:57.3 … Came in 23rd at the Panorama Farms Invitational (5K) with a time of 18:25.8 … Ran the 6K course at the Virginia Tech Invitational in a time of 24:09.8.

2019: Ran unattached at the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational (6K) and was 39th overall with a time of 23:53.6 … Ran unattached at the Virginia Tech Invitational and came in 36th overall with a time of 15:33.9.

High school: Ran the third leg on the 4x800 relay team that came in second at the Class 6 state outdoor meet her senior season … Was the runner-up at the Class 6 state cross country meet as a senior, leading her team to the state title … Won the state title in the 1,600 at the Class 6 outdoor meet her junior season (5:02.72) … Ran the second leg of the 4x800 relay team that came in second at the Class 6 state outdoor meet as a junior … Finished second in the 1,600 at the Class 6 state indoor meet her junior season (5:03.45) … Was fifth in the 1,000 at the Class 6 state indoor meet as a junior (3:02.36) … Ran the second leg on the 4x800 relay team that won the state title at the Class 6 state indoor meet her junior season … A first-team All-Met choice by The Washington Post as a junior.
 
Personal: Born July 13, 2001 in Alexandria, Virginia … Daughter of Dennis Kappeler and Lorie Cassavechia … Has a brother … Her father ran track and cross country at George Mason … Major is undecided (possibly business or building construction).
 

Chase Kappeler's XC Career Bests

4K: 14:20.0, Hokie Open (2021)

5K: 17:58.8, Panorama Farms Invitational (2022)

6K: 21:44.1, NCAA Southeast Regional (2021)

italics = ran unattached