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2024 Men's Cross Country Roster

Simon Straub

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Littleton, Colo.
  • High School Dakota Ridge

Biography

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Overall Career Honors
  • 5x RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
As a Redshirt Junior (2024): Did not race.

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2023): Did not compete

As a Redshirt Freshman (2022): Finished 36th with a 8K time of 29:40.8 at the Mountaineer/Cowboy Invite, his lone competitive race of the season… Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.

As a Freshman (2021): Redshirt season... Competed unattached in two meets... Finished 61st with an 8K time of 29:16.0 at the UCCS Rust Buster... Was 34th with an 8.8K mark of 32:45.01 at the Gig Leadbetter Maverick Stampede.

Prep: 2021 graduate of Dakota Ridge High School… Placed 98th at the 2020 Colorado State XC Championships… Had set a 5K PR of 17:02.94 to finish 51st at the Nike Cross Nationals Southwest Regional as a junior in the fall of 2019… Was 43rd at that year’s Jefferson County 4A/5A League Championship… Set track PR’s of 58.88 (400), 2:10.24 (800), 4:39.79 (1600) and 10:20.20 (3200) during the spring of 2021.

Personal: Is majoring in civil engineering and aspires to obtain a "super cool engineering job."

Why I Chose CMU: “I liked both the size and location of the school. I heard good things about both the cross country team and the civil engineering program.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2021Freshman

    5'8"
  • 2022Redshirt Freshman

    5'8"
  • 2023Redshirt Sophomore

    5'8"
  • 2024Redshirt Junior

    5'9"