Indoor |
Mark |
Date |
3,000m |
8:03.93 |
3/8/20 |
5,000m |
13:48.91 |
3/7/20 |
Mile |
4:10.93 |
1/25/20 |
Outdoor |
Mark |
Date |
3,000m |
8:46.09 |
3/18/17 |
5,000m |
14:11.72u |
4/5/19 |
10,000m |
29:24.60u |
6/8/19 |
2019-20
Cross Country: W&M's leading scorer on the year, finishing first on the team in each of his five races ... Earned All-CAA honors, taking second at the conference championships ... Won the Spider Alumni Open for the third year in a row ... Named the CAA Runner of the Week following that race ... Finished second overall at the UVA Invitational ... Named CAA Runner of the Week for the second time ... Won the Penn State National Open, W&M's first win in that race since 2001 ... Earned his third CAA Runner of the Week award ... Finished the year taking 52nd overall at the Southeast Regional ... CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll for having a GPA over 3.0 in the fall.
Indoor: Voted the first-ever VaSID State Indoor Track Athlete of the Year ... IC4A Champion in both the 3,000m and the 5,000m ... First W&M athlete to win two individual events at the same IC4A meet ever ... First man to win the 3,000m indoors since 1975 ... Ran lifetime-bests in both races ... On Saturday night, ran 13:48.91 for the win, his first sub-14 performance ever and the first for W&M since 2013 ... Finished the year ranked 24th nationally in the 5,000m ... Sunday, followed up with an 8:03.93 in the 3,000m to improve his previous best by more than 12 seconds ... Ranks fifth in school history in both races ... Combined in six events over the course of the season, won five of them ... Also ran a lifetime-best 4:10.93 to win the mile on the flat track at George Mason in late January ... Named second-team all-state in distance on the first-ever VaSID Indoor Track & Field All-State team.
Outdoor: Season cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
2018-19
Cross Country: Redshirted ... Opened the year with a win at the Richmond Spider Open ... Named the CAA Runner of the Week for that feat ... Missed the rest of the season due to injury.
Indoor: Redshirted.
Outdoor: Redshirted ... Ran unattached several times, including at the Portland Track Festival in June where he ran a lifetime-best 29:24.60 ... That would have been in the conversation both to make the NCAA Finals in 2019, and to score at the national championships ... Ran a lifetime-best 14:11.72 in the 5,000m at the Colonial Relays ... CAA Academic Honor Roll for having a GPA over 3.0.
2017-18
Cross Country: CAA Athlete of the Year ... CAA Champion, winning the conference title in 25:01.94 ... Finished 58th overall at the Southeast Regional ... Led W&M at both Panorama Farms and at Penn State, finishing ninth and 12th, respectively ... Opened the year with a win at the Spider Alumni Open.
Indoor: Named All-East at the IC4A Championships after finishing seventh in the 5,000m run ... Turned in a lifetime-best 14:28.13 for the award ... Won the 5,000m at Liberty in his only other appearance.
Outdoor: CAA Track Athlete of the Year ... First man since 2013-14 to win Athlete of the Year in both cross country and track ... Fourth straight Athlete of the Year winner for W&M ... NCAA Qualifier for the first time ... Became W&M's first-ever men's distance doubler, racing both the 5,000m and the 10,000m at the NCAA Eastern Semifinals ... Finished 23rd in the 10,000m, and then came back two days later to take 21st overall in the 5,000m ... Improved an average of 21 places in each race over his pre-meet seeding ... Named All-East after finishing fourth in the 5,000m ... CAA Champion at 5,000m, and runner-up in the 10,000m .... Ran a lifetime-best 14:14.21 in the 5,000m at Duke ... Ran 29:50.13 in the 10,000m at the Raleigh Relays to begin his spring.
2016-17
Cross Country: Took 15th overall at the CAA Championships, just missing all-conference honors ... Finished 61st overall at the Southeast Regional ... Also ran on the varsity squad at the Panorama Farms Invitational and at Penn State ... Opened the year with a fifth-place showing unattached at the Spider Alumni Open.
Indoor: Ran the 3,000m and the 5,000m once each, at Navy and Marshall, respectively.
Outdoor: CAA Champion in the 10,000m ... Qualified for the IC4A Championships, where he just missed All-East honors after taking 10th in 30:56.68 ... Also finished fourth at the CAA Championships in the 5,000m ... Anchored the "B" 4x1,500m at the Colonial Relays.
Prep
Prep All-American indoors at 5,000m ... Took eighth at the Ohio state cross country championships (top division) as a senior ... 11th in the second division his junior year ... On the track, was sixth at the state 3,200m as a senior, after taking fourth in the second division as a junior and 11th as a sophomore ... Named Academic All-State as a senior ... Member of the Science Olympiad team for University HS ... Participated in the Entrepreneur Anderson Scholarship program, encompassing business class, competitions, internships, and more.
Personal
Son of Sherri Trojan ... Started his own company to create apps for developing companies ... Volunteers with a local dog shelter.