2010-11 Track Roster
Halsey Merritt
- Class:
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Durham, N.C.
- High School:
- Cardinal Gibbons
HALSEY MERRITT's Collegiate Bests
Indoor:
Mile: 5:14.23
3,000m: 10:13.12
5,000m: 17:36.59
Outdoor:
1,500m: 4:23.47
Steeple: 10:18.86
5,000m: 16:47.41
10,000m: 37:17.12
2014 Outdoor Track and Field
Set a personal-best mark in the 10,000m at the Wolfpack Last Chance Meet with a time of 34:53.42, shaving more than two minutes of previous best mark of 37:17.12.
Competed at the Penn Relays (5,000m), the ACC Championships (10,000m) and Joe Hilton Invite (mile).
2013-2014 Indoor Track and Field
Set a personal best in the 3,000m at the Hokie Invitational with a time of 9:54.34.
Also registered a personal-best in the mile at the Virginia Tech Elite Meet, clocking a time of 4:57.75.
Set another personal-best mark in the 5,000m at the UCS Invitational with a mark of 17:11.16.
2013 Outdoor Track
• Competed twice in the 1,500m and once in the 10,000m
• Top time in the 1,500m was 4:40.81 at the Duke Twilight Meet
• Finished 18th in the 10,000m race at the ACC Championships in 37:17.12
2012-13 Indoor Track
• Clocked an indoor-best 10:13.12 and placed 12th in the 3000m at the Hilton Garden Invitational
• Set an indoor-best 17:36.59 in the 5000m at the ACC Championships
2012 Outdoor Track
• Placed 12th in the 10,000m at the ACC Championships in a collegiate-best 36:06.47
• Also competed in the 1,500m and 5,000m during the season
2011-12 Indoor Track
• Finished 18th in the 5,000m at the ACC Championships
2011 Outdoor Track
• Finished 13th in the 10,000m at the ACC Outdoor Championships in a collegiate-best time of 36:55.28
• Placed second in Sect. II of the 5,000m at Raleigh Relays in a time of 17:29.26
2010-11 Indoor Track
• Competed in the mile, 3,000m and 5,000m during the indoor season
2010 Outdoor Track
• Redshirted the season
2009-10 Indoor Track
• Redshirted the season
Prep/Personal
• Attended Cardinal Gibbons HS for coach Benny Morgan
• Ran the mile at 5:16.50 and the 3,200m at 11:34.60
• Won the 4x800m, 1,600m and 3,200m at the 2009 outdoor state championships
• Three-time all-state in track
• Third place in the 3,200m in 2008
• Fourth place in the 1,600m and fifth in the 3,200m
• Was fourth place in 1,600m and fifth place in 3,200m in 2007
• Was two-time all-state in cross country
• Finished in the top-10 of the state meet in 2006 and 2007
• Finished fourth in the 2008 state meet
• Team was cross country state champions in 2006-08
• 2008 cross country team captain
• Was track team captain in 2009
• National Honor Society
• N.C. Scholar
• Majoring in biological sciences