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Stephen Couch
| Year: | Sophomore |
| Hometown: | Naperville, Ill. |
| High School: | Naperville Central |
Personal Bests
1,500 meters - 3:59.87
Mile - 4:15.49
3,000 meters - 8:37.46
5,000 meters - 14.45.77
XC 8k - 25:44
2009-10
Competed at the Iona Meet of Champions and in the
Harvard/Yale duel meet … Second among Harvard runners and
48th overall at the Albany Invitational with a time of 25:57.1
… Competed at the Heps Championships.
2008-09
Placed fourth among Crimson runners and 86th overall at the NCAA
Northeast Regional ... Was the third Harvard runner and 22nd
overall at Pre-Nationals ... Finished ninth overall at the H-Y
cross country dual meet ... Finished second in the 3,000 at the
Battle of Beantown ... Finished fourth in the mile at the HYP meet
with a season best time of 4:15.49 ... Competed in the Olympic
Development 5,000 meters at the Penn Relays … Posted the
best time by a Harvard freshman in the 5,000 meters at the
Harvard-Yale vs. Oxford-Cambridge meet with a time of 14:45.77,
which is also a personal best … Finished eighth in the 1,500
at the Victor Lopez Classic with a season-best time of 3:59.87.
Personal
Four-year member of the cross country and track and field teams
... Team captain for cross country and track as a junior and senior
... Earned all-state honors in cross country and all-state honors
in the mile as a senior ... Picked up all-state honors during
junior campaign as a member of the 4x800 meter relay team ... Won
the DuPage Valley conference title in the mile (2007, 2008) ...
Earned all-conference honors in cross country in 2006 ... Four-year
member of the student advisory council and president for two years
... A member of class council and the J Kyle Braid Leadership
Foundation from 2006-08 ... Named a Chicago Tribune
Scholar-Athlete.









