Stephen Chester

Stephen Chester

Year: Junior
Hometown: Charlottesville, Va.
High School: St.Anne's-Belfield
Position: Distance
House Affiliation: Quincy

Personal Bests
1,500 meters - 4:15.98
Mile – 4:29.81
3,000 meters - 8:57.10
5,000 meters - 16:23.71

2008-09
Fourth among Harvard runners and 58th overall at the Heptagonal Championships ... Top Harvard runner and 26th overall at the UAlbany Invitational ... Competed in the H-Y cross country dual meet ... Competed in the mile and 3,000 meter run during the indoor season ... Ran a career-best in the 3,000 meters at the Harvard Select Meet.

2007-08

Finished ninth overall and seventh among college competitors in the 3,000 meters at the Harvard Open (9:08.12) ... Competed in the 1,000, 3,000 and 5,000 meters indoors ... Ran the 5,000 meters outdoors.

2006-07
Competed in the New England Championships and the Mayor's Cup ... Ran the mile, 3,000 and 5,000 meters indoors and competed in the 1,500 and 5,000 meters outdoors.

Personal
Won the Louisiana state championship in cross country in 2004 and finished as a runner-up in 2003 ... Earned all-district, all-state and MVP honors both years ... Finished 73rd at the 2005 Footlocker Regionals ... A four-year letterwinner in cross county, track and soccer ... Was first at the district, third at regional and state championships in the two-mile in 2004 ... First at regional and second at state championships in both the one-mile and two-mile in 2005 ... Set freshman record in the two-mile and the school record in the mile as a junior ... Other interests include boxing, piano and tennis.

Concentration
Human Evoluntionary Biology