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Andrew Beck

Hometown: Okemos, MI
High School: Okemos
Events: Sprints
 
 
 

 

   
   

David Beck

Hometown: Okemos, MI
High School: Okemos
Events: Sprints
 
 
 

 

   
   

Tristan Black-Ingersoll

Nickname: Scout
Hometown: Concord, NH
High School: Concord High School
Major: European History
Events: 800, 1000, 1500, Mile
PRs: 2:07, 2:46, 4:15, 4:41
Favorite Run: Bloody
Favorite Color: Yellow
Favorite Commons Food: Sole Stuffed with Crab, Steak and Cheese, Lava Cake

Quote: "You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that."-
Steve Ovett

 

Pat Carroll

Hometown: North Andover, MA
High School: St. John's Prep
Major: Biology
Events: 100, 200

PRs: 11.37, 22.94

Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Commons Food: Chicken Patties
 
   
   

Devin Dilts

Nickname: Bogs
Hometown: Roscoe, IL
High School: Hononegah Community
Major: History, minor in Spanish
Events: Steeple, 5k

PRs: 25:40 (XC), 4:32 (Mile), 15:14 (5k), 9:36 (steeple), 33:01 (10k)

Favorite Run: Farm
Favorite Color: Pink
Favorite Commons Food: Pumpkin Pancakes
Quote: "I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet, and the cello." -Roger Bannister
   
   

Brett Epler

Hometown: Wellesley, MA
High School: Wellesley High School
Major: Economics
Events: Pentathlon, Decathlon, 55 hurdles, 110 hurdles, 400 hurdles

PRs: 3285, 6162, 8.18, 15.68, 56.10

Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Commons Food: Sundae Sundays
Quote: "Finishing that 5K was the hardest thing I ever had to do. I ate more fettuccini alfredo, and drank less water than I have in my entire life. People always talk about triumphs of the human spirit. Well today I had a triumph of the human body. That's why everybody was applauding for me at the end. My guts, my heart and well I eventually puked my guts out. I never puked my heart out, and I am very proud of that." --Michael Scott,
The Office
   

 

Tom "Espo" Esponnette

Nickname: Kirby
Hometown: Auburn, ME
High School: Edward Little HS
Major: Biology
Events: Mile, 1000, 1500
PRs: 4:14, 2:30, 3:56
Favorite Run: Nature
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Commons Food: Sweet Potato Fries
Quote: "There is always going to be another mountain. I'm always going to want to make it move" -Miley Cyrus
   

 

Elliot Foster

Hometown: Coral Springs, FL
High School: Stoneman Douglas
Events: Shot, Disc, Hammer, Weight
PRs: 38-10.5, 107-1.75, 119-7, 46-11.75
 
 

 

   
   

Peter Gurney

Nickname: Sweetums
Hometown: Arlington, VA
High School: Washington-Lee
Major: Music Composition
Events: Mile, 3000, 5000, 10000
PRs: 4:25, 8:43, 15:21, 32:12
Favorite Run: Old Greene
Favorite Colors: White or Purple
Favorite Commons Food: To choose any one food would be a dishonor to far too many contenders.

Quote: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." -Jebediah Springfield

 

 

 

Monthe N. Kofos

Hometown: Marlborough Mass
High School: St. John's (Shrewsbury)
Major: Psychology
Events: Triple Jump, 400 Hurdles, various other sprints/jumps
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Commons Food: Fried Chicken
Quote: Everyone who lives will die, but not everyone who has died has lived.
   
   

Chris LaBrecque

Hometown: Falmouth, ME
High School: Falmouth High School
Major: Biology
Events: Long Jump, Triple Jump
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Commons Food: Monkey Bread
 
   
   

Ryan Larsen

Hometown: Hull, MA
High School: Boston College High School
Major: Chemistry
Events: Shot Put, Discus, Hammer
PRs: 13.1 m, 36.93 m, 40.1 m
Favorite Color: Yellow
Favorite Commons Food: Chicken Parm

Quote: "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -MJ

 

Kevin McDonald

Nickname: Gucc
Hometown: Stewart Manor, NY
High School: Chaminade
Major: Psychology
Events: 400, 800, 1600
PRs: 52.8, 2:01, 4:44
Favorite Run: Spill
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Commons Food: Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Quote: "Just thinking about Zordon."
   
   

Joe Musso

Nickname: Squeak
Hometown: Wallingford, CT
High School: Lyman Hall
Major: US History
Events: 200, 800, 1000, Mile, 3000
PRs: 25.xx, 1:59, 2:37, 4:38, 9:10
Favorite Run: Cemetary
Favorite Color: Blue
Favotite Commons Food: Sauteed Green Beans
Quote: "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee, and thou art enough." George Edward Moore
   
   

Chris Murtagh

Hometown: Rowley, MA
High School: St. John's Prep
Major: Politics
Events: Javelin, Hammer, Discus, Weight, Shotput
PRs: 198.7, 178-8, 158, 54-6, 44-8.5
Favorite Color: Orange
Favotite Commons Food: Buffalo Wings
"You're either first or last!" -Ricky Bobby's dead beat Dad.
   
   

Ryan Quinn

Hometown: Watertown, MA
High School: Watertown High School
Major: Chemistry
Events: Sprints
PRs: 6.63 (55), 22.77 (200), 50.01 (400)
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Commons Food: Nachos

Quote: "If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit
me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough." - Steve Jones

 

Gavin Segall-Abrams

Hometown: Greensboro, NC
High School: Grimsley
Events: Sprints
 
 
 

 

   
   

 

Ben Taska

Nickname: The Big Ticket
Hometown: Lowell, VT
High School: Homeschooled
Major: Music
Events: 3000, 5000, 10000
PRs: 9:15, 16:07, 33:27
Favorite Run: Old Yellow
Favorite Colors: Orange and Blue
Favorite Commons Food: Fruit Pizza, Szechuan Chicken, Beef Tips with Egg Noodles
Quote: "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman
   

Ethan Waldman

Hometown: Playa del Rey, CA
High School: Alexander Hamilton
Major: Interdisciplinary - Health and Society
Events: Throws
PRs:Shot- 47-11.5, Weight- 48-8.75, Disc-150-7.5 Hammer- 138-1, 55m- 6.98, 100m- 11.65
Favorite Color: Pink
Favorite Commons Food: Dry Spinach Salad

Favorite Quote: "Don't stand on the tracks when the train's comin' through"

   
   

 

 

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