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2024 Cross Country Roster

Graham Blanks

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Athens, Ga.
  • High School Athens Academy
  • Concentration Undeclared

Biography

Junior Year (2023)

Team Captain … 2023 NCAA Men’s Cross Country National Champion … The first athlete in Ivy League history to win a NCAA men’s individual national title in cross country … USTFCCCA National Men’s Athlete of the Year … Earned All-America honors for the third time in his career, a new program record … All-Ivy League First Team selection … Capped off a historic undefeated season with a victory at the NCAA Cross Country Championships … Crossed the finish line first at the 2023 NCAA Northeast Regionals … Won the first Ivy League title of his career on home soil at the 2023 Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships … Orchestrated a statement victory at the Nuttycombe Invite, posting a time of 23:23.4 on the 8K course … Opened the season with a first place finish at the Battle in Beantown … USTFCCCA Scholar Athlete of the Year … USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree.

Sophomore Year (2022)

• Awarded USTFCCA All-American status for a top-15 finish in the NCAA Championship Meet.
• Placed 6th in the nation at the NCAA National Championship Meet
• The USTFCCA Northeast Regional Athlete of the Year for his first place finish at the regional meet. 
• Won the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship
• All-Ivy First Team Honoree for his 2nd place finish at the championship race. 
• Placed 2nd at Ivy League Heptagonal Championships

Before Harvard

Letterwinner in soccer, track and field and cross country at Athens Academy… Captain of both the track and field team and the cross country team junior and senior year… 2019 Georgia Gatorade Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year, GATFXCCA Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year…All Southeast Cross Country in 2019…4x cross country All-State honoree, 3x track and field All-State honoree… 3x cross country team MVP, 2x track and field team distance MVP… 2x GHSA cross country state champion…2019 GHSA 3200 state champion… GHSA cross country state course record holder, 1A Private state 3200m record holder… 2019 Nike Cross Regionals Southeast Boys Championship Champion… Great American Cross Country Festival Boys Race of Champions winner.

“Graham had a huge senior fall in XC as he won both Great American and NXN Southeast. That combined with his track PRs indicates he can be a player when he arrives on campus.” – Coach Gibby

Historical Player Information

  • 2021First-Year

  • 2022Sophomore

  • 2023Junior

  • 2024Senior