Utah State University Athletics

HONORS: Academic All-Mountain West (2024 T&F, 2024 XC, 2025 T&F); Mountain West Scholar-Athlete (2024 T&F, 2024 XC, 2025 T&F); Mountain West Men’s Cross Country Freshman of the Week (9/3/24); USU Whitesides Scholar-Athlete (2024, 2025).

INDOOR RECORDS: Ranks 10th all-time at USU in the 5,000 meters with a time of 14:07.29, set in 2025.

2025 (SO)
Cross Country (2024): Placed seventh at the Utah State Alumni Challenge with a 7K time of 21:05.29, leading all Aggie runners… Finished 21st at the UC Riverside Invitational with an 8K time of 23:55.3… Took 61st at the Lehigh-hosted Paul Short Run with an 8K time of 24:27.9… Placed 163rd at the Wisconsin Pre-Nationals with an 8K time of 24:23.9… Finished 49th at the NCAA Mountain Region Championships with a 10K time of 30:24.6… Earned Mountain West Men’s Cross Country Freshman of the Week honors on September 3.
Indoor: Placed 15th in the 5,000 meters and 16th in the 3,000 meters at the Mountain West Indoor Championships, finishing in 14:25.91 and a personal-best 8:18.03, respectively… Set a personal best in the DMR with a time of 10:05.68 as his team placed second at the Idaho State-hosted Mountain States Games… Ran a personal-best time of 14:07.29 in the 5,000 meters at the Washington Invitational, placing seventh.
Outdoor: Set a personal best in the 5,000 meters with a time of 14:05.78 as he placed 13th at the Stanford Invitational.

2024 (FR):
Indoor: Set a season best in the 3,000 meters with a time of 8:38.45 as he placed fifth at the Weber State Invitational… Finished second with a season-best time of 14:44.44 at the Idaho State-hosted Mountain States Games.
Outdoor: Did not compete during the outdoor season.

HIGH SCHOOL: Six-time letterwinner in cross country and track and field at Westlake High School in Saratoga Springs, Utah… During his senior season, he placed fifth at the state championships in cross country… Placed fifth in the 3,200 meters and eighth in the 1,600 meters at the outdoor state championships… A two-time all-state honoree in both cross country and track and field… Had career-best times of 15:12 in cross country (5K), 9:09 in the 3,200 meters, 4:17 in the 1,600 meters and 1:58 in the 800 meters… Competed in mountain biking as a four-year starter… Graduated in the top six percent in his class out of 850 with a 4.0 GPA… Named academic all-state and earned the Light and Excellence Scholarship.

PERSONAL: Son of Forrest and April Megargel… Has three siblings… Served a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in San Pedro Sula, Honduras from 2021-23… Majoring in biological engineering… Name is pronounced Jed-uh-die-uh Muh-gar-gle.

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