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2016 Men's Cross Country Roster

Ryan Cleary

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Prosper, Texas
  • Highschool Prosper HS

Biography

Collegiate Track PR | 800m: 1:52.75; 800m: 1:52.75; 1500m: 3:50.78; MILE: 4:19.61; 3000m: 8:29.32; 5000m: 15:42.67;
3000m Steeple: 8:56.62
Collegiate XC PR | 10K: 31:52.2; 8K: 24:59.6; 6K: 18:42.9
 
2017-18 (Senior): CROSS COUNTRY … Southland Conference Second Team All-Conference … Second Team All-Academic … Competed in all five meets recording five top-10 finishes … Posted a time of 25:05.7 at the Southland Conference Championships good for 10th … Recorded four more top-10 finishes in head to heads against Stephen. F Austin and Incarnate Word at the Naimadu Classic and TCU and Texas State at the Baylor Invitational … Finished 62nd with a time of 31:52.2 on the 10K course at the South Central Regional Championships … INDOORS … Did not compete and was granted a red shirt … OUTDOORS … First Team All-Conference Steeplechase … Third Team All-Conference 1500 … Competed in multiple different distance events but primarily the 3000m steeplechase and 1500m … Finished first in the 3000m steeplechase at the Southland Conference Championships with a time of 8:59.62 … Qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary Round, finishing 44th with a time of 9:13.52 … Clocked a personal best time of 8:56.62 (3k Steeplechase) at the Mt. SAC Relays in Torrance, Calif.

 
2016-17 (Junior)CROSS COUNTRY – Southland Conference All-Academic and member of its Commissioner's Honor Roll … Competed at three of five cross country meets, including the Southland Conference Championships where he placed fifth among eight Wildcats and 62nd overall with an 8K time of 26:37.4 … Ran a 21:15.8 four-mile run at North Texas and a 28:27.4 8K at Oklahoma State’s Cowboy Jamboree … INDOORS – Scored fourth-place points for the Wildcats as part of the distance medley relay that posted a time of 10:04.70 at the Southland Conference Championships … Finished sixth in the 3K with PR of 8:29.32 … OUTDOORS – Placed fifth in the Southland Conference 3K steeplechase with a PR of 9:21.49 and was sixth in the 1500m with a PR of 3:50.78 … Steeplechase winner (9:29.58) at ACU’s Wes Kittley Invitational and 1500m victor at the Wildcats’ Oliver Jackson Twilight Meet (3:57.94) … Runner-up in  the steeplechase (9:42.29) at ACU’s Wildcat Open.
 
2015-16 (Sophomore)CROSS COUNTRY – Southland Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll ... The Wildcats' No. 2 runner at all six cross country meets, including the 8K Southland Conference Championships where he placed 40th overall in 26:27.6 ... Recorded fastest 8K of the fall at Arkansas-Little Rock, completing the Trojan course in 24:59.6 ... Highest finish was sixth place vs. Texas Tech, finishing that 6K dual in 19:38.23 ... Started fall with a 10th-place showing at Abilene's Libby Invitational (16:20.08) … INDOORS – Just missed scoring for ACU at Southlands with ninth-place times of 1:54.08 in the 800m and 10:18.74 with the distance medley relay … Placed fourth with DMR (10:21.83) at Houston Invitational … OUTDOOR – Missed season due to injury and was granted a redshirt season.
 
2014-15 (Freshman)CROSS COUNTRY – Competed at all six cross country meets, including the Southland Conference Championships where he placed third among the Wildcats and 59th overall in 26:40.0 ... Recorded his fastest 8K of the fall at Texas Tech (26:09.41) and posted his best finish a week earlier (9th) at the West Texas College Open (30:08) ... Wildcats' No. 2 runner through the first four meets of the season before coming in third at Incarnate Word and the conference meet … INDOORS – Second Team All-Southland Conference with the Distance Medley Relay (10:07.63) ... OUTDOORS – Fourth place in the Southland Conference 800m (1:52.75) ... 1500m runner-up at ACU's Wes Kittley Invitational with personal record of 4:02.99.
 
High School: Graduated among top-10 percent of class in 2014 from Prosper High School ... Four-year letterwinner ... Personal records include a 15:55 (5K), 4:23 (1600m), 1:56 (800m), 9:57 (3200m) ... Four-time all-district honoree and regional qualifier ... 2013 all-region selection ... Won the district 9-4A 800m in addition to finishing fourth in the district 1600m ... Placed eighth in the District 9-4A cross country meet in 2013 ... Part of a program that won a district 9-3A championship for track in 2011 and 2012 ... XC team qualified for 3A Region II in 2010 and 2011 and 4A Region II in 2013 ... Member of school's National Honor Society ... Academic all-state in XC and academic all-district in basketball.
 
Personal: Given name is Ryan Daniel Cleary ... Born 9 March 1996 in Springfield, Mo. ... Resides in Prosper, Texas ... Son of Dan and Tamra Cleary ... Father, Dan, played collegiate basketball for Bethel College and Friends University from 1987-91 ... Accounting major.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014Freshman

    6'0"
  • 2015Sophomore

    6'0"
  • 2016Junior

    6'0"