The University of Southern Indiana’s Tristan Mannix (Crothersville, Ind.) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week.

Mannix, a senior runner for the Eagles, captured the 5,000-meter title at the Indiana Relays hosted by Indiana University over the weekend.

He finished the event in a time of 14:45.19 to earn a NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark. Mannix covered the final 1,000 meters in a time of 2:50 and topped the second-place finisher, Brandon Karcher of Southeast Missouri, by over 12 seconds.

In three race appearances in 2008, Mannix has posted top times in the GLVC in the mile, 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters.

Southern Indiana will next compete at the DePauw Invitational on Saturday.

Other top performers in the GLVC last week included Bellarmine’s Justin Smith and Lewis’ Andy Lepkowski.