  {"id":14156,"date":"2025-12-02T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=14156"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:23:48","slug":"bati-26-makes-miac-history-with-fourth-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2025\/12\/02\/bati-26-makes-miac-history-with-fourth-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Bati \u201926 makes MIAC history with fourth title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14158\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/11\/Mohammed-Bati-Media-Day-2024-Kevin-Healy.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Mohammed Bati, a smiling young Black male athlete, wearing a maroon and white Augsburg University athletic tank top with his arms crossed.\" width=\"264\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/11\/Mohammed-Bati-Media-Day-2024-Kevin-Healy.png 500w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/11\/Mohammed-Bati-Media-Day-2024-Kevin-Healy-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augsburg University Men&#8217;s Cross Country runner <b>Mohammed Bati &#8217;26<\/b> (Photo by Kevin Healy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mohammed Bati \u201926<\/strong> was recently featured in The Minnesota Star Tribune for his success as a cross-country runner at Augsburg University. This year, Bati became the first men\u2019s athlete in MIAC history to <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/1\/cc110125.aspx\">win four conference cross country titles<\/a> while simultaneously <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/22\/mcc112225.aspx\">finishing 2nd at nationals<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/15\/cc111525.aspx\">winning the Division III North Regional<\/a>, and being named <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/4\/mcc110425.aspx\">MIAC\u2019s Men&#8217;s Cross Country Athlete of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights Bati\u2019s dedication and hard work. As a full-time student, he balances his class schedule with an overnight job and an intense running regimen, fitting in rest and sleep whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>Chip Scoggins of The Minnesota Star Tribune writes: \u201cBati works the overnight shift because he logs 150 miles running per week with the goal of becoming an Olympic marathoner. He would not have time in his day to train otherwise. He dreams of competing for the United States after earning his citizenship through naturalization two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Bati\u2019s story in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/mohammed-bati-augsburg-distance-runner-miac-ethiopia-st-paul-highland-park-high-school\/601515947\">\u201cScoggins: Augsburg\u2019s Mohammed Bati doesn\u2019t rest. He runs and he wins&#8230; and now has his goals set even higher\u201d<\/a> in The Minnesota Star Tribune.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span data-slate-fragment=\"JTVCJTdCJTIydHlwZSUyMiUzQSUyMnBhcmFncmFwaCUyMiUyQyUyMmNoaWxkcmVuJTIyJTNBJTVCJTdCJTIydGV4dCUyMiUzQSUyMlRvcCUyMGltYWdlJTNBJTIwV2l0aCUyMG5vJTIwb3RoZXIlMjBydW5uZXJzJTIwaW4lMjBzaWdodCUyQyUyME1vaGFtbWVkJTIwQmF0aSUyMCcyNiUyMGNvbWZvcnRhYmx5JTIwc2VjdXJlcyUyMGZpcnN0JTIwcGxhY2UlMjBhdCUyMHRoZSUyMDIwMjQlMjBTdC4lMjBPbGFmJTIwSW52aXRhdGlvbmFsLiUyMChQaG90byUyMGJ5JTIwRG9uJTIwU3RvbmVyKSUyMiU3RCU1RCU3RCU1RA==\">Top image: With no other runners in sight, <strong>Mohammed Bati &#8217;26<\/strong> comfortably secures first place at the 2024 St. Olaf Invitational. (Photo by Don Stoner)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammed Bati \u201926 was recently featured in The Minnesota Star Tribune for his success as a cross-country runner at Augsburg University. This year, Bati became the first men\u2019s athlete in MIAC history to win four conference cross country titles while simultaneously finishing 2nd at nationals, winning the Division III North Regional, and being named MIAC\u2019s <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":14165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14179,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions\/14179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}