Stephen Couch

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.