Missouri State

Collegiate XC PR | 5k: 19:08.9 (9/1/23), 6k: 23:18.3 (10/13/23)

Honors

• MVC Honor Roll: 2022-23
• MSU Athletic Director's Honor Roll: Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024

2024
Competed in four meets for the Bears ... Ran a season-best 5k at the Queen City Twilight (9/13) with a time of 19:43.76 and a season-best 6k at the Gans Creek Classic (9/27) with a time of 23:31.1 ... Assisted the Bears to an eighth place finish in the Open race at Gans Creek.

2023
Competed in three meets for the Bears ... Ran a career best 5k at the Mizzou XC Opener (9/1) with a time of 19:08.9 and a 26th place finish ... Competed in the Evansville Angel Mounds Invitational (10/13) where she recorded another career best with a 23:18.3 6k ... Finished 50th at Evansville.

2022
Competed in 4 meets for the Bears during her freshman season ... Ran a season-best 5-kilometer time of 19:55.8 at the Arkansas Chile Pepper Festival (9/30/22) ... Raced in her first collegiate 6k at the Platte River Rumble (10/14/22) with a time of 23:58.4 ... Earned MVC Honor Roll status ... Named to the MSU Athletic Director’s Honor roll during the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters.  

High School
Standout performer at Clark County (Mo.) in Kahoka ... Finished in the top-10 three times at the Missouri state cross country meet, clocking a personal best of 19:49 (5K) her senior year (2021) ... Placed 2nd in the 3200m at the state track meet her senior year ... Helped her cross country team to a third-place team finish her freshman year.

Personal
Grace N. Buschling was born 7/18/04, in Keokuk, Iowa... Daughter of Jeff and Angela Buschling of Kahoka, Mo. ... Has two sisters, Rachel and Renae ... Majoring in Nutrition and Dietetics.