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Know Your Dons - Alex Short

WATCH: Short's 2016 Championships Preview
SAN FRANCISCO – The latest West Coast Conference champion Don, Alex Short, is ready to put it all on the line this Saturday, in the 2016 NCAA Cross Country Championships.

Contested at the LaVern Gibson Championships Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind., for the 12th time since 2002, Short is familiar with the terrain, and the pomp and circumstance surrounding the pinnacle race of the year. Last season, he qualified as an individual in the field, but unfortunately, failed to finish the 10,000 meter course. And this season, he's already expunged some of those demons by taking seventh individually at the Pre-National Championships on Oct.