PEORIA, Ill. -- Senior runner Luke Hoffert (Yorkville, Ill./Yorkville) has been named the Bradley COUNTRY Financial Scholar-Athlete of the Week announced Wednesday.
A two-time All-Missouri Valley Conference honoree during his career, Hoffert finished second at the 2019 Valley Cross Country Championship this past fall as he helped the Bradley men's cross country team to a league-record fifth consecutive title with his second-place individual showing. This winter, he took fourth in the 5,000 meters at the MVC Indoor Track & Field Championship. A manufacturing engineering major with a 3.78 cumulative grade point average, Hoffert is a four-time MVC Scholar-Athlete performer during his career and was an all-region honoree in cross country as a junior, when he helped the Braves advance to the NCAA Championship.