Stevenson Boys Cross Country: City Champions, Regional Next

Livonia Stevenson's boys cross country team won the Livonia City Meet Friday, Oct. 16, and placed second at both the Wayne County Championships and the Lakes Valley Conference championship. Junior Lucas Brumo won the Wayne County race. Stevenson runs the MHSAA Region 07-1 meet at Royal Oak High School Saturday, Oct. 31.

The goals

When Livonia Thrive visited practice on Monday, Sept. 21, Pyle laid out the season's goals. “We have really high goals, really high hopes. We look to be division champions. We look to place really well at the conference, and our ultimate goal is to win the Livonia City meet,” he said. “We haven't done that in a really long time, and we haven't qualified for the state meet in close to 10 years. That's our number one goal: to qualify for the state meet as a team.”

Since then, Stevenson has won the LVC Lakes Division meet and the Livonia City Meet and placed second at the Lakes Valley Conference championship. The regional that decides the state meet is Saturday, Oct. 31.

Source: Livonia Thrive interview with coach Nathaniel Pyle, Sept. 21

City champions

At the Livonia City Meet at Cass Benton Park on Friday, Oct. 16, Stevenson won the boys team title with 30 points to Churchill's 35 and Franklin's 71. Brumo was second in the 5,000 meters in 16:33.4, behind Churchill sophomore Troy Verhelle (16:26.6).

Six Stevenson runners finished in the top 10 and were named All-City: Brumo; sophomore Colt Ludlam, fifth (16:59.7); freshman Julien Zambo, sixth (17:04.7); junior Shree Patel, eighth (17:24.9); junior Charlie O'Loughlin, ninth (17:26.9); and junior Landon Seidel, 10th (17:27.2).

Source: official results on athletic.net; All-City count from coach Nathaniel Pyle, Oct. 21

Wayne County and the conference

Brumo won the Wayne County Championships at Willow Metropark on Saturday, Oct. 10, in 16:01.3, nine seconds ahead of Detroit U-D Jesuit senior Emmet Gardella (16:10.3). Ludlam was ninth (16:40.1), Zambo 18th (16:51.1) and O'Loughlin 28th (17:03.8), and Pyle said all four earned All-County honors. Stevenson scored 97 points, second of 25 teams behind Plymouth (67) and ahead of Dearborn Divine Child (130) and Churchill (137).

At the Lakes Valley Conference Championship at Willow Metropark on Tuesday, Oct. 20, Stevenson placed second of 12 teams with 84 points, behind Highland-Milford (41) and ahead of White Lake Lakeland (87) and Churchill (118). Brumo was fifth in 16:06.1, Ludlam 11th (16:40.1) and Zambo 17th (16:56.1). Pyle said the three earned All-Conference honors.

Three weeks earlier, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, Stevenson won the LVC Lakes Division Championship at Nankin Mills Park, 37 points to Churchill's 42, with Brumo second in 16:22.4 behind Farmington's Devin Lau.

Source: official results on athletic.net; All-County and All-Conference honors from coach Nathaniel Pyle, Oct. 21

The season

• Friday, Aug. 21: 16th of 32 teams in the second boys varsity flight at the Lamplighter, Ford Field in Livonia
• Saturday, Sept. 12: 4th of 22 teams in the varsity race at the Rambling Rock Invitational, Willow Metropark, with 118 points; Plymouth won with 109
• Saturday, Sept. 26: 20th of 35 in the division for schools of 1,000 or more students at the Jackson Invitational, Ella Sharp Park
• Tuesday, Sept. 29: 1st of 6 at the LVC Lakes Division Championship
• Saturday, Oct. 10: 2nd of 25 at the Wayne County Championships
• Friday, Oct. 16: 1st of 3 at the Livonia City Meet
• Tuesday, Oct. 20: 2nd of 12 at the Lakes Valley Conference Championship

Brumo has been Stevenson's first finisher at all seven of those meets, and Ludlam its second at every meet since the Lamplighter, where Patel was second. Brumo's fastest 5,000 meters of the season, 15:58.8, came at Jackson, where Ludlam ran 16:34.9. Zambo, a freshman, has been Stevenson's third finisher at the Wayne County, city and conference meets. Seidel and sophomore Foster Spurlock have run in all seven meets, Patel and O'Loughlin in six.

Source: official results on athletic.net

A year ago

Stevenson's boys placed sixth of 14 teams at the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Region 06-1 meet at Willow Metropark on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. Brumo, then a sophomore, finished eighth in 16:33.8 and qualified for the Division 1 Finals at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, where he placed 89th in 16:12.4.

Five other runners who ran for Stevenson at that regional are on this fall's roster: Seidel, O'Loughlin, Patel, Seeley Freville and Thadeus Price.

Source: official results and 2026 roster on athletic.net

What's next

“We still have 3 more weeks for the whole team, and depending on how we do at Regionals on October 31st, we will push the season later to November 7th, the State Meet,” Pyle wrote on Oct. 12.

• Saturday, Oct. 24: Airport Haunted Harvest XC Festival, Carleton, on Stevenson's calendar
• Saturday, Oct. 31: MHSAA Lower Peninsula Region 07-1, at Royal Oak High School and Quickstad Park. The Division 1 boys race starts at 10 a.m. Stevenson is one of 16 schools in the region. The top three teams qualify for the state finals, with a fourth team possible under the meet rules, along with the top 15 individuals and the top seven runners not on a qualifying team.
• Saturday, Nov. 7: the MHSAA state meet, which depends on the regional results, Pyle said
• Saturday, Nov. 14: MITCA Meet of Champions, on Stevenson's calendar
• Sunday, Nov. 15: NXR Midwest Regional Championships, LaVern Gibson course in Indiana, on Stevenson's calendar

Athletic.net lists Pyle as Stevenson's men's head coach.

Source: Stevenson's 2026 calendar and meet pages on athletic.net; Region 7 meet information from host Royal Oak High School; coach Nathaniel Pyle, Oct. 12

Pyle's Oct. 21 email spells two runners' names “Colt Ludham” and “Landon Siedel.” This article uses the spellings in athletic.net's official results and roster, “Ludlam” and “Seidel.”