Mark Fairley

  • Award
    Track Performer of the Week (Men)
  • Week Of
    1/21/2018
  • Sport
    Indoor Track & Field
  • School
    Central College
  • Year
    Senior
  • Position
  • Hometown
    Dubuque, Iowa
  • High School
    Dubuque
Men’s Indoor Track & Field – Track Performer of the Week
Mark Fairley, Central College
Sr., Dubuque, Iowa/Dubuque
  • On January 19, 2018 Fairley and the Dutch competed at the Prairie Wolf Invitational where he took home 1st in the 1,000 and 5,000-meter runs
  • In the 1,000 he was 1st of 15 runners in a time of 2:32.78 and in the 5,000-meter run he crossed the line in 15:28.94 to finish 1st of 25 runners.
  • Fairley is now 57th on the NCAA Division III qualifying list in the 5K and has the second fastest time in the Iowa Conference.
  • His winning 5K time beat out the second-place finisher by over 20 seconds.
  • Fairley took 3rd in the 3,000-meter run at the 2017 Iowa Conference Championships 2nd in the 1-mile.