Hill Caps Senior Season With All-America Honorable Mention Nod

Brian Hill earned All-America honorable mentions accoaldes in the 800 meter run (Harvard Athletic Communications).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior Brian Hill of the Harvard track and field team received All-America honorable mention accolades, the USTFCCCA announced. Hill represented the Crimson at the 2011 NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, competing in the 800 meter run.

The Oradell, N.J. native becomes Harvard’s first male track and field All-American since 2009 when Nico Weiler earned All-America honors in the pole vault. The last Crimson athlete to earn the honor in the 800 was Darren N. Dinneen ’00, who earned nods as a junior and a senior.

Hill graduates from Harvard with the seventh-fastest time in the 800 in school history, as he posted a time of 1:49.57 at the 2011 Larry Ellis Invitational. He also ran a time of 1:48.09 as the anchor leg of the 4x800 relay at the 2011 Penn Relays, helping the squad to a new school record.  

Hill earned a berth in the national semifinal of the 800 thanks to a 12th-place finish at the NCAA East Preliminaries May 26-28 in Bloomington, Ind. His time of 1:50.26 on the campus of Drake University was good for 23rd overall, earning him the honorable mention accolade.