Maksim Korolev Season 2014

* Six-Time All-America *

At Stanford: Placed fourth at 2014 NCAA cross country championships Stanford ... has two top-five NCAA cross country finishes ... qualified for 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and finished 57th.

Career Bests (thru 2015 indoors):

• 10,000 Meters: 29:13.80
• 5,000: 13:42.56
• Mile: 4:02.24
• 1,500: 3:52.67

2014 Season:
Outdoors

• Fifth in the Ivy League 10,000 (29:36.96) as he battled injuries.

Indoors
• Earned two second-team All-America honors in final collegiate indoor track season.
• 13th in the 5,000 at the NCAA Championships (14:34.41).
• 14th in the 3,000 at NCAA's in Albuquerque (8:28.55).
• Second in the Ivy League 5,000 (13:58.83).
• Ran mile best of 4:02.24 while winning tri meet among Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

2013 Season:
Outdoors

• Fifth in the 10,000 in 29:26.96 at the 2013 Ivy League outdoor championships.
• 24th at NCAA Championships in the 10,000, earning All-America honorable mention honors.

Indoors

• Won the 2013 Ivy League indoor 3,000 (8:04.19).

2012 Season:
Outdoors

• 25th in the Ivy League Championships in the 5,000.

Indoors

• Earned second-team All-America honors on Harvard's 11th-place distance medley relay team at the NCAA Championships.

2011 Season:
Outdoors

• Did not compete.

Indoors

• Ran 8:25.14 in the 3,000.

Cross Country:

• Fourth at the 2014 NCAA Championships (30:29.5, 10K) in Terre Haute, Ind., pacing Stanford to a second-place team finish, its' highest since 2003.
• Named USTFCCCA West Region Athlete of the Year.
• Won the NCAA West Regional (29:33.5, 10K) at Stanford by outkicking Edward Cheserek, ending the Oregon sophomore's nine-race winning streak.
• Third in the 2013 NCAA Championships as a senior at Harvard.
• Finished sixth at the 2015 U.S. Championships in Boulder, earning the sixth and final spot on the U.S. team for the World Championships, covering the 12K course in 37:03.
• Won the inaugural Pan Am Cup, emblematic of the champion of the Western Hemisphere, in Barranquilla, Colombia (28:21 over 10K).
• The race also served as the NACAC championship for North and Central America, and the Caribbean.
• Placed 57th at the IAAF World Championships in Guiyang, China, on March 28, running 38:27 over 12K.

High School:

• Four-year member of the track and cross country teams at Harrisonville.
• Gatorade Missouri Runner of the Year and Kansas City Metro Runner of the Year in 2009-10.
• Named to the All-Midwest second-team in 2009.
• Won the 1,600 and 3,200 at the 2010 Missouri Class 3 state championship meet.
• Captured the state Class 3 cross country title in 2009.
• All-state in cross country all four years and all-state in track as a sophomore, junior and senior.

Personal:

• Graduated from Harvard with a degree in human development and regenerative biology.
• Working toward his masters in management science and engineering.
• Born in Kazakhstan and moved to United States at age 7.
• Mother is Almira Miles.