Ketchikan brothers Isaac and Lucas Updike ran together in high school, at Eastern Oregon University and now for Team Run Eugene in Oregon. Tonight, they finished second and third in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Oregon Twilight at iconic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Isaac lost a photo finish and his brother won a… Read more »
Isaac Updike of Ketchikan might not consider himself to be a professional runner, even though he trains like one and looked like one at the Oregon Relays. The 2015 Eastern Oregon University graduate and former NAIA national champion in the steeplechase shattered his personal record by 18 seconds in the 5K race with a time… Read more »
Ketchikan’s Isaac Updike didn’t collect his second national championship, so he settled for a school record instead. The Eastern Oregon University senior runner came close to winning the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NAIA Track and Field Championships in Alabama, finishing second to collect his fourth All-American result of his college career. He won the race… Read more »
The Eastern Oregon University track team is competing at the 57th annual Mt. SAC Relays in California this weekend for the first time. Two brothers from Alaska helped EOU make quite the impression. Isaac Updike and Lucas Updike of Ketchikan went 1-2 in the opening heat of the 3,000-meter steeplechase to help both hit their… Read more »
They’ve spent their entire lives pushing each other to run faster, so it’s nice to see brothers Lucas and Isaac Updike of Ketchikan working together for the Eastern Oregon University track team. One week after posting two of the top three 5,000-meter times in all of NAIA this season, Lucas posted a national B qualifying… Read more »
Lucas Updike of Ketchikan will never forget 2014. For the second time this year, the Eastern Oregon University runner eared All-American honors. In May, it was track. This weekend it was cross country. Updike was second on the team and 23rd out 320 men who finished the NAIA Cross Country Championships in Kansas. He finished… Read more »
A pair of Alaskans helped the Eastern Oregon University men’s cross country team enjoy one of the best days in school history. Buoyed by Ketchikan’s Lucas Updike and Anchorage’s Hans Roelle, the Mountaineers finished with the third best time in school history on their way to winning the Inland Empire Championships in Idaho. Updike was… Read more »
Alaskans Rachel Roelle and Lucas Updike of Eastern Oregon University each posted cross country victories at the season-opening competition at the Whitman Invitational in Washington. Anchorage’s Roelle won the women’s 6-K race in 23:36, 10 seconds ahead of the second-place runner. She was one of only two Eastern Oregon runners among the top 14 finishers,… Read more »
Rachel Roelle of Anchorage joined the ranks of repeat NAIA All-Americans from Alaska at the NAIA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Pittsburg, Kansas. The Eastern Oregon runner earned top-eight finishes in the 3,000 meters and the distance medley relay for her third career All-American finish. In 2016, she was eighth in the 1,000 meters…. Read more »
Eastern Oregon University cross country and track coach Ben Welch has a problem. He’s running out of Alaskans. The longtime NAIA coach has had incredible success recruiting runners from his home state, particularly two families – the Roelles out of West Anchorage and the Updikes from Ketchikan. “I don’t specifically target certain families, but when… Read more »
