Justin Grinstead

Justin Grinstead

Year: Senior
Hometown: Orillia, Ont.
High School: Twin Lakes
Position: Sprints/Hurdles
House Affiliation: Currier

Honors and Awards
W.H. Rand Hurdle Award (2007, 2008, 2009)
Hennessy Mile Relay Award (2007, 2008, 2009)
Academic All-Ivy (spring 2008)
First-team All-Ivy League (2009)
USTFCCA All-Academic (2008, 2009)

Personal Bests
200 meters – 22.3
400 meter – 49.40
400 hurdles – 52.16 (Fifth all-time)
500 meters - 1:05.22

2009-10
Placed third in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:00.13 at the Jay Carisella Invitational ... Finished third in the 400 meter dash at the Dartmouth Relays with a time of 50.50 ... Placed fifth in the 400 meter dash with a time of 50.01 and placed second in the 200 meter dash with a time of 22.31 at the Paul Turner Harvard Select Meet.

2008-09
Ran on the fourth-place mile relay team at the Indoor Heptagonal Championships ... Was part of the 4x400 meter relay winning team at the Husky Winter Carnival ... Finished 20th in the 500 meter dash at the Terrier Invitational ... Finished sixth in the 800 meter run at the Harvard Open ... Finished second in the 500 meter run and ran on the 4x400 meter relay winning team at the Battle of Beantown ... Finished fourth in the 500 meter run iwith a career-best 1:05.22 at the HYP meet ... Won the 400 meter hurdles at the Heptagonal Championshps ... Ranked fifth in Harvard history with a time of 52.16 seconds in the 400 meter hurdles ... Named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic team ... Earned first-team All-Ivy League honors after winning the 400 meter hurdles at the Heptagonal Championships ... Won the 400 meter hurdles at the Harvard-Yale dual meet ... Finished first in the 400 meter hurdles at the Harvard-Yale vs. Oxford-Cambridge meet ... Placed fourth in the 400 meter hurdles at the Victor Lopez Classic ... A member of the 4x400 meter relay team at the TSU Relays that qualified for the IC4A Championships.

2007-08
Received the W.H. Rand Hurdle Award as the top hurdler and the Hennessy Mile Relay Award as a member of the top mile relay team ... Competed in the 400 meter hurdles at the NCAA East regional ... Ran an NCAA regional qualifying time to finish third in the 400 meter hurdles at the Outdoor Heptagonal Championships ... Ran 50.01 in the 400 meters to place sixth at the Harvard Select Meet ... Member of the mile relay team that finished third and placed sixth in the 500 meters at the Indoor Heptagonal Championships ... Ran 54.14 to finish fourth in the 400 meter hurdles at the Texas Southern Relays ... Qualified for the IC4A meet with a third-place finish in the 400 meter hurdles at the Victor Lopez Rice Bayou Classic (53.79) ... Placed fifth in the 400 meter hurdles at the Sam Howell Invitational ... Won the 400 meter hurdles at the Harvard-Yale meet.

2006-07
Finished eighth in the 400 meter hurdles at the Outdoor Heptagonal Championships ... Competed on the 4x400 meter relay team ... Had Harvard's third fastest 400 meter time this spring ... Received the McLaughlin Award and the Rand Hurdle Award at the end of the year banquet.

Personal
Represented Canada at the World Youth Championships in Morocco ... Other interests include sports and music.

Concentration
history