Steven Fahy Season 2014

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career accolades:

• 2019 NCAA Steeplechase Champion
• Five-time All-American
• Academic All-American
• Two-time Pac-12 steeplechase champion

Personal bests (thru 2020):

• 3,000 steeplechase: 8:34.52
• 1,500: 3:45.03
• 5,000: 13:34.80
• 3,000: 7:54.62i

As a sixth-year senior (2019-20):
Cross country

• All-American.
• All-West Region.
• Pac-12 Men's Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic.
• No. 3 runner on Stanford's sixth-place team at NCAA Championships.

As a fifth-year senior (2018-19):
Outdoors

• Won NCAA 3,000 steeplechase championship.
• Became first to do so from Stanford.
• Tripped over the final barrier while leading the NCAA race, but got up to reach the finish first.
• First-team All-America (steeplechase).
• Repeated as Pac-12 steeplechase champion.
• Pac-12 All-Academic first team.
• Ran 5,000 best of 13:34.80 at Cardinal Classic.
• Big Meet 3,000 winner.
• Big Meet 3,000 steeplechase winner.
• CoSIDA Academic All-America second team.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic.

Indoors

• MPSF All-Academic.

Cross country

• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.

As a senior (2017-18):
Outdoors

• Earned his first first-team All-America honor, in the steeplechase.
• Third in NCAA 3,000 steeplechase in a lifetime best 8:34.52.
• Pac-12 steeplechase champion.
• First Stanford conference steeple champ since 2003.
• Broke Cardinal Classic steeplechase record.
• Big Meet steeplechase winner.
• Moved to No. 2 on Stanford's all-time list in the steeplechase.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic team.
• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.

Indoors

• Second-team All-America (5,000).
• Ninth in NCAA 5,000.
• Moved to No. 8 on Stanford's all-time list in the 5,000.
• MPSF All-Academic.

Cross country

• Earned first All-America honors by placing 17th at NCAA Championships.
• All-West Region selection.
• All-Pac-12 first team
• Third at Pac-12 Championships, helping Stanford to team title.
• Third at NCAA West Regional.
• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.

As a junior (2016-17):
Outdoors

• Earned his highest placing in the steeplechase at both the Pac-12 and NCAA West Prelim meets.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic selection.

Indoors

• Ran a 3,000 personal best of 8:03.83 to place 10th at the UW Invitational.

Cross country

• All-West Region selection.
• Placed 59th at NCAA Championships, as Stanford's No. 4.
• Most improved member of team.
• Improved from 66th to 16th in conference, and 72nd to 22nd in region in one year.

As a sophomore (2015-16):
Outdoors

• Pac-12 finalist in the 3,000 steeplechase.
• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic team.

Indoors

• Set a 30-second personal best in the 5,000 of 14:00.93 to finish 18th at the Iowa State Classic.
• Ran 3,000 best of 8:07.41 to place 14th at MPSF Championships.
• Set personal bests in all three season races.
• MPSF All-Academic team.

Cross country

• Stanford's No. 6 runner at NCAA West regional.

As a freshman (2014-15):
Outdoors

• Ran in seven meets unattached.
• Set personal best 1,500 at the Payton Jordan Invitational (3:49.77).
• Best steeplechase was 9:02.52 to finish second at the Brutus Hamilton Open.
• Won the steeple at the West Coast Last Chance Meet (9:10.32).

Indoors

• Did not compete.

Cross Country

• Ran two races unattached.

National/International:

• Second at the 2015 U.S. Junior Championships in the steeplechase (9:15.58), but chose not to run at the Pan Am Junior Championships.
• Placed 19th (8:38.63) at the 2018 U.S. Championships, though did not make the final. 

High School:

• As a senior at La Costa Canyon High School in Carlsbad, placed second in the California state meet in the 3,200 meters, running 8:56.97.
• Ran his personal 3,200 best of 8:53.95 at the Arcadia Invitational, placing eighth in a strong field.
• CIF San Diego Section and Avocado West League champion in 2014.
• Eighth in the state as a junior.
• Placed fourth in his 3,200 section at the Arcadia Invitational in a personal best 9:02.61.
• Two-time CIF-San Diego Section Division II cross country champion and sixth in the state Division II race.
• Had a high school 1,600 best of 4:13.88.

Career results: