Emptying the Notebook: Football and Women's Cross Country

ATHENS, W.Va. – With the 2024-25 school year officially wrapped up, the Concord University Sports Information Department will provide a rewind to some of the numbers and notes that were pertinent to the success of the Mountain Lions.

This series will be broken up into reviewing a couple sports at a time in a series the SID office will call "Emptying the Notebook." Several of these numbers and notes will come from Nick Cooper and Wes McKinney that may or may not have been used in previews and recaps throughout the year.

Our fall sports Emptying the Notebook rolls on with football and women's cross country

Emptying the Notebook on Concord Football
7- Games for Ryker Brown with seven or more tackles

17- Punts by Josh Hutley that landed inside the 20-yard line. 32 percent of Hutley's punts were pinned inside the 20-yard line over the last two years.

34- Career starts for Jordyn Bentley who was the active program leader at the time of his graduation.

66- Explosive plays for Concord—rushing plays of 10 or more yards and passing plays of 20 or more yards.

206- Rushing yards for JQ Brown against Glenville State which was a season high as he also had CU's longest play from scrimmage in the game, an 80-yard scamper.

875- Kickoff return yards by Jeremiah Valdry, setting the single-season program record

Emptying the Notebook on Concord Women's Cross Country
3- Sara Turner ran career-best times at all three distances, 4,000-meter, 5,000-meter and 6,000-meter, that Concord raced at this past fall. Turner clocked 16:46 for 4,000-meters at Virginia Tech, 20:37 for 5,000-meters at the Royals Challenge and 24:29 for 6,000-meters at the Atlantic Region Championship

4- CU athletes that ran times in the top 25 of the all-time Paul Short Run list in program history: Katy Walkup (6^th/23:22), Madison Cornett (8^th/23:31), Kate Kelly (15^th/24:26) and Turner (19^th/25:07)

17- Points scored by the Mountain Lions at the Concord Alumni Meet to win the meet for the fourth straight season.

20- Finishing place for Cornett at the Mountain East Conference Championship as she secured her first career All-MEC Second Team honor.

22:32- Personal-record 6,000-meter time for Walkup at the Atlantic Region Championship and the fastest 6,000-meter for any Mountain Lion in 2024.

52- Finish for Walkup at the Atlantic Region Championship which was the highest for any Concord athlete and the highest of her career.