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2024-25 Men's Track & Field Roster

Simon Straub

  • Height 5-8
  • Events Distance
  • Hometown Littleton, Colo.
  • High School Dakota Ridge
  • Indoor Yr. Redshirt Junior
  • Outdoor Yr. R-Jr.

Biography

TFRRS Career Results Page
Cross Country Bio Page

Overall Career Honors
  • 6x RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll
2025 Outdoor (Redshirt Junior): Named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll… Ran the 1,500 meters at two meets… Had a season-best time of 4:36.31 at the Maverick Invitational.

2024-25 Indoor (Redshirt Junior): Did not race during the indoor season.

2024 Outdoor (Redshirt Sophomore): Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll… Ran the 3K Steeplechase in two home meets… Posted a season-best time of 10:32.48 at the Maverick Invite #2… Ranks ninth in CMU history with that time.

2023-24 Indoor (Redshirt Sophomore): Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll… Ran the 3K at two meets… Had a season-best time of 9:49.19 at the Western Colorado Open.

2023 Outdoor (Redshirt Freshman): Competed in two meets… Ran in the 800 (2:05.03) and 1,500 (4:10.71) at the CSU Pueblo Open… Went on to set a new career-best of 4:08.24 in the 1500 meters at the Maverick Invite…  Also ran to a time of 10:39.27 in his first career attempt at the 3K Steeplechase during the home meet… Moved into the No. 7 spot of program history with that time… Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.

2022-23 Indoor (Redshirt Freshman): Competed at one meet, posting a 3K time of 9:38.02 to finish seventh in the event at the Mines Winter Classic… Named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.

2022 Outdoor (Freshman): Redshirt season… Competed unattached in the 1,500 meters at each of CMU’s three home meets… Posted a season-best time of 4:14.29 at the Maverick Top Gun Last Chance Meet… Ran to an 800 meter time of 2:10.36 at the Maverick Invite #1, his lone attempt at that distance.

2021-22 Indoor (Freshman): Redshirt season.

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

  • 2021-22Freshman

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2022-23Redshirt Freshman

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2023-24Redshirt Sophomore

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2024-25Redshirt Junior

    Distance
    5'8"