2020 Men's Cross Country Roster

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Tom Connelly
Tom Connelly

Will Laird

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Seattle, Wash.
  • Highschool Garfield

Biography

College Bests
800m - 1:53.54
1000m - 2:24.36
1500m - 3:44.77
Mile - 4:02.72
6000m (XC) - 18:56.2
8000m (XC) - 24:40.3
10,000m (XC) - 32:25.0

High School Bests
800m 1:55.4
1600m 4:17.72
5000m (XC) 15:58.2

2021-2022: In cross country, competed in Yale’s varsity group throughout season and served as team captain…Opened up finishing 16th at Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet running 24:44.1 for 8000m…Finished 46th at highly competitive Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown…Finished 11th at Panorama Farms XC23 Invitational, running a personal best of 24:40.3 for 8000m…Ran a personal best of 32:25.0 over a muddy 10,000m course at NCAA Division I Northeast Region Cross Country Championships.

2020-21: No competition due to coronavirus pandemic.

2019-20: In cross country opened up with a seventh-place finish against Harvard, running 19:01.0 over hilly 6000m course…Finished 48th at Panorama Farms Invitational, running 25:15.5 for 8000m…Finished 52nd at Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships, running 26:09.3 over the five-mile course.

2018-19: In cross country competed at the Harvard-Yale Princeton tri-meet finishing 7th overall in 18:56.02 for 6K…Competed at the Pre-Nationals Invitational…Ran at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships finishing 8th for Yale.


2017-18: In cross country competed at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet finishing 9th overall…Competed at the Panorama Farms Invitational finishing 3rd for Yale and 22nd overall…Ran an 8K personal best of 24:50 at the Pre-Nationals Invitational…Competed at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships…Finished 3rd for the team at the NCAA Northeast Regional.

Off the track: A Communication and Consent Educator (CCE) at Yale…Works at the Strittmatter Lab at the Yale Medical School.

High School: 12th at the 3A State XC Champs...3rd in the 3A 800m...5th in the 3A 1600m at State.
Personal: Played club soccer for 10 years, went to two state finals and was a regional and national champion...Has two younger brothers and a yellow lab...Volunteered with the Special Olympics: Project Unified club all four years of high school.

Historical Player Information

  • 2017First Year

    Distance
  • 2018Sophomore

    Distance
  • 2019Junior

    Middle Distance/Distance
  • 2020Senior

    Middle Distance/Distance