2024 Cross Country Roster
Biography
Senior Year (2024)
All-Ivy League First Team honoree … Ended the season with a 231
st place showing at the NCAA Championships … Placed 36
th at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships … Earned a fourth place showing at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships … Took 105
th at Pre-Nationals … Finished in 15
th at the Paul Short Run.
Junior Year (2023)
All-Region selection … All-Ivy League First Team honoree … Finished in a career-best 47th place at the NCAA Cross Country Championships … Earned All-Region honors for the first time in his career with a eighth place showing at the NCAA Northeast Region Cross Country Championships … Placed third at the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships … Crossed the finish line in 60th place at the Nuttycombe Invite … Began his junior year campaign with a 7th place finish at the Battle in Beantown.
Sophomore Year (2022)
• Placed 251st at the NCAA Championship Meet
• Placed 15th at the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships
Before Harvard
800m: 1:54.59
1500m: 3:52.74
1600m: 4:12.86
3200m: 9:16.41
Four-year Letterwinner on the cross country and track and field teams… Captain of the cross country team in 2018 and 2019, captain of the track and field team in 2020… All-State in track, as well as an All-Academic athlete… Placed third in the 2019 IHSA 3A Boys State Track Meet in the 1600m… Holds the record for the fastest freshman/sophomore time in the 1600m at Lake Forest… 2019 MVP… Holds the 800m record at Lake Forest… Placed 40th in the 2018 IHSA Boys Cross Country State Meet… Named Most Improved Athlete on the Lake Forest cross country team in 2017.
“Ben placed 3rd in the Illinois State Championships as a junior in the 1600m. Ben has tremendous middle-distance potential, he will contribute quickly in a variety of different events.” – Coach Gibby
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