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2018-19 Men's Track and Field Roster

Matt Heinicke-Peart

  • Position Middle Distance
  • Indoor Elig. R-Jr.
  • Outdoor Elig. Sr.
  • Hometown Richmond, Va.
  • High School Douglas Freeman

Biography

Indoor Mark Date
800m 1:57.24 2/3/18
1,000m 2:34.33 H.S.
Mile 4:28.55 2/10/18
Outdoor Mark Date
800m 1:55.45 4/21/17
1,500m 4:03.10 3/25/16

2017-18
Cross Country: Ran on the varsity four times ... Finished 21st overall at the Spider Alumni Open and 32nd at the W&M Invitational ... Also traveled to the Panorama Farms Invitational and to Penn State.
Indoor: Improved his best in 800m to 1:57.24 at Liberty in early February ... Ran a 4:28.55 mile at the VMI Winter relays ... Led-off the 4x800m in both prelims and finals at the IC4A Championships ... Also ran on the qualifying relays in both the 4x800m and the DMR ... Led-off the 4x400m at the VMI Winter Relays.
Outdoor: Earned All-CAA honors on the third-place 4x100m relay ... Also ran the 800m and the 1,500m individually, finishing 10th and seventh, respectively ... Ran 1:55.54 in the 800m at the Colonial Relays ... Also ran the 4x400m at the Tribe Invitational.

2016-17
Cross Country: Ran three times ... Best finish of 10th came at the CNU Invitational ... Also finished 18th at the W&M Invitational, and 38th at the Spider Alumni Open.
Indoor: Best finish in the 800m was 1:59.48 at Navy ... Also ran the 1,000m and the mile once each ... Ran on the top 4x800m at CNU ... Also ran the 4x400m at the UCS Invitational.
Outdoor: Finished 10th in the 1,500m at the CAA Championships ... Also took ninth in the 800m .... Ran a season-best 1:55.45 in the 800m at Duke ... Ran on the 4x400m at Richmond and at the Tribe Invitational ... Anchored the 4x800m relay at the Colonial Relays.

2015-16
Cross Country: Redshirted ... CAA Commissioner's Award for having a GPA over 3.2.
Indoor: Redshirted.
Outdoor: Made the finals of the 1,500m at the CAA Championships, finishing 11th overall ... Also took 11th in the 800m ... Ran 1:56.14 at UVA, just a tenth of a second off his lifetime-best ... Best 1,500m of the year came at Richmond ... Ran on the 4x800m relay both at Colonial Relays and the IC4A Championships ... CAA Commissioner's Award for having a GPA over 3.2.

Prep
Helped Freeman win the state cross country title in 2014 ... Earned five all-state honors on the 4x800m relay ... Also won all-state honors three times as an individual ... As a senior, was third in the state indoors at 1,000m ... His junior year, was sixth indoors at 1,000m and sixth outdoors at 1,600m ... Earned four All-Met honors from the Richmond Times-Dispatch over the last two years ... Won the Charles B. Gordon memorial scholarship for academic and athletic achievement at Freeman ... President of the Recycling Club ... Member of the marching band, concert band, and jazz band for three years.

Personal
Son of Craig Heinicke and Sandra Peart ... Is an avid cyclist, and also enjoys playing the trumpet and the drums.

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Freshman

    Middle Distance
  • 2016-17Sophomore

    Middle Distance
  • 2017-18Junior

    Middle Distance
  • 2018-19Senior

    Middle Distance