Harvard University

Personal Bests 

Senior Year (2023-24)

Indoor: Finished in fourth in the 200m (21.53) and 10^th in the 60m (6.85) at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships … Finished in 28^th in the 200m at the Battle in Beantown … Placed third in the 60m (6.91) and fifth in the 200m (21.70) at the UMass Flagship Invitational … Won the 4x440y relay (3:18.90) at the HBCU & Ivy Challenge.
Outdoor: USTFCCCA All-America honorable mention in the 4x400m relay … Ivy League Champion in the 4x100m relay … All-Ivy League First Team honoree in the 4x100m relay … All-Ivy League Second Team selection in the 200m and the 4x400m relay … Helped the Crimson take 21^st in the 4x400m relay (3:08.73) at the NCAA Championships … A member of a Harvard 4x400m relay team that set a new Ivy League record (3:03.76) at the NCAA East First Round, advancing to the NCAA Championships with an 11^th place finish … Won the 4x400m relay (3:06.74) and placed second in the 4x100m relay (39.82) at the IC4A/ECAC Championships … Pushed the Crimson 4x100m relay team to an Ivy League title and a new meet record (40.07) at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships … Also took sixth in the 100m (10.46) and second in both the 200m (21.11) and the 4x400m relay (3:08.83) … Recorded an eighth place finish in the 100m (10.50) and a second place showing in the 4x100m relay (39.87) at the Tiger Track Classic … Took fourth in the 100m with a time of 10.50 at the UConn Northeast Challenge … Won the 100m (10.58) and the 4x100m relay (41.24) at HY … Competed in a trio of events at the Pepsi Florida Relays, taking second in the 4x400m relay (3:08.28), sixth in the 4x100m relay (40.32) and 23^rd in the 200m (21.28) … Ran a 21.44 in the 200m at the Hurricane Collegiate Invite, placing eighth … Started the year at the Kirk Baptiste Invitational, helping Harvard place second in the 4x100m relay (40.31).

Junior Year (2022-23)

Captain of the track and field team... First Team All-Ivy in the indoor 4x400m relay and outdoor 4x100m relay... second team All-Ivy in the indoor 60m dash and outdoor 100m dash... NCAA prelim qualifier in the 200m dash and 4x400m relay... set a new personal best in the 200m dash to improve his school record at the UConn Northeast Challenge... part of the school record holding 4x100m relay team

Sophomore Year (2021-2022)

(Indoor) Placed second and set a career best in the 300m with a time of 33.83 at the Ivy & HBCU challenge… Placed first in the 60m (6.92) and the 200m (21.68) at the Beantown Challenge… Set two personal bests in the 60m (6.80) and 200m (21.23) at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championships…(Outdoor) Recorded another personal best and finished first in the 400m (47.50) at the Harvard -Yale Match… Placed second while setting another career best in the 200m (21.10) at the War Eagle Invitational… Finished the season by setting another personal best and placing third in the 100m at the Ivy League Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a time of 10.32.

Before Harvard:

100m: 10.87
200m: 21.76
400m: 48.24

Lettered one year in football (2018) and four years on the track and field team… Captain of the track and field team… 8x All-State track athlete… Named Carl Junction High School Track MVP his junior year… 2019 Aldo Sebben Missouri Class 4 Track Athlete of the Year… 2019 Springfield Sports Commission’s Southwest Mo. Boys Track Athlete of the Year… 2017 Track & Field Newcomer of the Year honoree… Carl Junction school record holder two individual events and two relays… 2019 400m state runner up… Named to the Missouri Top 100 Scholars.

“Lance will add a tremendous amount of depth to the Crimson sprints squad in both the long and short sprints.” – Coach Mangiacotti