Macks Motorsports Aggies of the Week No. 11: Emily Bray and Josh Samaron

Macks Motorsports Aggies of the Week No. 11: Emily Bray and Josh Samaron
November 11, 2025

GOODWELL, Okla. Oklahoma Panhandle State University Athletics has named women's basketball's Emily Bray and men's cross country's Joshua Samaron as the Mack's Motorsports Aggies of the Week for the week of Nov. 3-9.

Bray was on a tear this weekend at the inaugural No Man's Land Classic, where she put up double-doubles in both contests. On Nov. 7, the Aggies played USW in their first game of the weekend, where Bray was aggressive in the paint, scoring 12 points, 10 rebounds and a block in the tight loss. Fast forward to game two of the weekend, and Bray was relentless, scrapping together yet another 13 points and 14 rebounds in a back-and-forth battle with Northern New Mexico College. Her double-doubles followed an important six-rebound effort in a 64-50 win at Hesston early last week, and Bray's two dominant performances on the weekend were enough to gain her the honors for Mack's Motorsports Aggies of the Week.

Samaron ran what head coach Cyrus Hall called "the best race of Josh's career," and it came at the biggest time the SAC Championships hosted by John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. His time of 27:47.14 in the 8k set a new personal record, beating his previous from Oct. 25. Making the feat more impressive, the JBU Cross Country Course typically runs slower than where his previous PR was set in Ashland, Nebraska. Saturday's race also ran generally slower than it had on the same course in early October, yet Samaron beat his time by over a minute.

The senior has had a crazy experience in his collegiate career. Samaron was in junior college running cross country, and halfway through the year, the school canceled the whole program. Finding a home at Panhandle State since 2024, Samaron has bounced back, put in the work and seen it pay off with the best 8k run of his collegiate career at a pace of 5:35 per mile to take 35th of 84 individuals in the SAC Championships.

Honorable Mentions (Women)

  • Lillyan Gerow (Cross Country)
  • Tryssa Dowd (Basketball)

Honorable Mentions (Men)

  • David Zeller (Football)
  • Aaron Williams Jr. (Basketball)