Jakob Lindaas
 
Jakob Lindaas
Jakob Lindaas
Year: Junior
Hometown: Moorhead, Minn.
High School: Moorhead
Position: Distance
Major: Environmental Science and Public Policy
House Affiliation: Adams

Personal Bests
XC 8k - 25:59
XC 10k - 34:24

2011-12
Finished 36th at the Paul Short Invitational Sept. 30 with a time of 25:54.2 ... Placed 28th at the Heptagonal Championships Oct. 29 clocking in at 25:41.6.

2010-11
Finished 16th at the Harvard-Yale Meet Sept. 24 with a time of 26:55.11.

2009-10

Was third among Crimson runners at the Iona Meet of Champions … Competed at the Harvard/Yale meet in Franklin Park and helped Harvard earn the win … Competed at the Heps Championships ... Helped the Crimson earn a 10th-place finish at the NCAA Regionals with a personal-best time of 34:24 ... Fourth among Harvard runners at the ECAC Championships with a time of 26:57.8.

Before Harvard
Lettered all four years in cross country, indoor and outdoor track … Captained cross country team as a junior and senior and track team as a senior … Earned all-state honors as a senior … Recipient of team’s “Hardest Worker” Award as a sophomore and junior and “Rookie of the Year” Award … Team Most Valuable Player … Placed 18th at the Minnesota State cross country meet as a senior … Placed 12th at the Nike Heartland Regional cross country meet as a senior … National Merit Finalist … Minnesota State Honor Choir member … AP Scholar … Co-Concertmaster of the Fargo Moorhead Area Youth Symphony.

Personal
Other interests include hiking, reading, playing violin and singing.