| Indoor |
Mark |
Date |
| 800m |
1:58.79 |
1/20/18 |
| 1,000m |
2:25.89 |
2/19/16 |
| 3,000m |
8:19.59 |
3/4/18 |
| Mile |
4:03.41 |
2/6/16 |
| Outdoor |
Mark |
Date |
| 800m |
1:53.12 |
5/7/16 |
| 1,500m |
3:45.56 |
4/14/18 |
| 3,000m |
8:18.09 |
3/19/16 |
| 5,000m |
14:35.35 |
4/21/18 |
2017-18
Cross Country: Bronze-medalist at the CAA Championships as part of a Tribe sweep of the top three places ... Ran a career-best 70th at the Southeast Regional ... Also ran at the Spider Alumni Open, UVA, and Penn State.
Indoor: Anchored the DMR in the prelims at the IC4A Championships to earn a spot in the finals ... Qualified individually for the 3,000m, where he ran a PB 8:19.59 ... Also ran lead-off on the qualifying DMR at the VMI Keydet Invitational.
Outdoor: NCAA Qualifier for the first time, racing the 1,500m at the Eastern First Round ... Took 18th overall in 3:49.37, an improvement of 28 places over his pre-meet seeding, but did not advance to the quarterfinals ... Ran a lifetime-best 3:45.56 at George Mason to qualify ... Won the 1,500m at the Stimson Memorial Quad Meet, beating out opponents from navy, GMU, and Buffalo ... Runner-up in the 1,500m at the CAA Championships ... Also took fourth in the 800m at the conference meet ... All-East after finishing third in the 1,500m at the IC4A Championships ... Third in the 1,500m at the Colonial Relays ... Ran on the winning 4x1,500m relay at the Colonial Relays.
2016-17
Cross Country: Improved to fourth at the CAA Championships for his second All-Conference award ... Finished 100th overall at the Southeast Regional ... Also took fourth at the Spider Open ... Ran at both UVA and Penn State.
Indoor: Redshirted.
Outdoor: Took fifth in the 1,500m at the CAA Championships ... Also ran the 5,000m at the conference meet, finishing seventh ... Ran a season-best 3:52.02 at George Mason to qualify for the IC4A Championships ... Anchored the 4x1,500m at the Colonial Relays to a runner-up finish ... Also led-off the "B" 4x400m at the Tribe Invitational.
2015-16
Cross Country: Finished 11th at the CAA Championships to earn All-CAA honors ... Fourth on the team and 81st overall at the Southeast Regional ... Also ran on the varsity squad at Princeton and Wisconsin.
Indoor: All-East indoors, finishing third in the mile at 4:04.60 ... Won the mile at Penn State with a lifetime-best 4:03.41 ... Also won the 1,000m at GMU and VT, the latter in 2:25.89 ... Anchored the 4x800m relay to an IC4A-qualifying time at Virginia Tech ... Led-off the DMR at CNU in late January.
Outdoor: CAA Champion, winning the 1,500m in 3:47.26 ... Also took second in the 800m in a lifetime-best 1:53.12 ... Ran a lifetime-best 3:46.40 at Virginia in mid-April ... Won the 3,000m in the season-opening Tribe Invitational in 8:18.09 ... Also won both the 1,500m and 800m at CNU in mid-April, earning CAA Runner of the Week honors as a result ... Anchored the 4x1500m relay to victory at the Colonial Relays.
2014-15
Cross Country: Redshirted ... Ran unattached three times ... Took fifth at the CNU Invitational ... Ran 16th at the home meet ... Was 23rd at Richmond.
Indoor: All-East after leading-off the Tribe's seventh-place 4x800m relay ... Ran a lifetime-best 4:17.91 in the mile at Virginia Tech ... Ran the 800m leg on the DMR at CNU in late January ... Ran 2:36.22 in the 1,000m at that same meet ... Opened the year with an 8:56.75 in the 3,000m at CNU.
Outdoor: All-CAA in the 1,500m run, finishing second overall in a personal-best 3:51.22 ... Also made the finals in the 800m, finishing eighth in 1:55.25 ... Led-off the Tribe's 4x1500m relay at Colonial Relays ... Led-off the 4x800m relay at the IC4A Championships ... Opened the year with an 8:36.06 3,000m at the Tribe Invitational ... CAA Commissioner's Award winner for having a GPA over 3.2.
Prep
Runner-up at the Virginia 3A cross country championships his senior year ... Picked as the Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year by both the
Daily Press and the Peninsula Sports Club ... Took fourth in the state in the 1,600m and sixth in the 800m in 2014 ... Finished second in the state indoors in the 4x800m and fourth in the 1,000m as a sophomore ... Also earned all-state honors indoors as a junior, finishing sixth at 1,600m ... Outdoors, added a silver medal in the 1,600m in 2013 as well ... Totaled two region titles and five district championships in three years ... Highest Honor Roll all four years ... Interned at NASA's Langley Research Center the past two summers ... Invited to the American Legion Boy's State his junior year ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Also a member of the Spanish Honor Society and Math Honor Society ... Member of the Key Club and the Model UN.
Personal
Son of John and Sherry Connell ... Cousin, Margaret Roszel, graduated from W&M in 2005 ... Enjoys kayaking, playing the bass guitar, and watching soccer.
