Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Kyle Rose (Kankakee, Ill.) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week.

Rose, a senior sprinter for the Cougars, posted a pair of NCAA Division II provisional qualifying times at the SEMOtion Relays in Cape Girardeau, Missouri over the weekend.

He finished second in the 400-meter dash in a time of 46.85. The effort exceeded the provisional qualifying mark and fell just shy of the automatic qualifying mark of 46.60. Rose is currently ranked first in the GLVC this season in the 400-meter dash and fifth on the national performance list.

Rose also ran a leg on SIUE’s second-place 4x400-meter relay team. The four-member team posted a time of 3:12.07 which is also a NCAA Division II provisional qualifying effort.

SIUE will return to action at the Western Illinois Memorial on Saturday.

Other top performers in the GLVC last week included Bellarmine’s Joey Blue, Lewis’ Randy Hinton, Southern Indiana’s David Goodman and UIndy’s Elliott Cohee.