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TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • West Region XC team champions (2021)
  • Two-time Pac-12 XC team champions (2018, 2020-21)
  • All-West Region XC (2021)
  • Four-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (T&F 2020, 2021; XC 2020-21, 2021)
  • Two-time MPSF All-Academic (2019, 2020)
  • Four-time Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll (XC 2020, 2021; T&F 2021, spring 2022)
  • Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention (XC 2018)

Personal Bests (thru 2022)

  • Mile: 4:00.73
  • 1,500: 3:44.52
  • 5,000: 13:49.26
  • 3,000: 8:10.64
  • Steeplechase: 8:57.69
  • 2 Mile: 8:47.40
  • 800: 1:53.75

As a Fifth-Year Senior (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Ran season best 5,000 of 13:51.97 at the Payton Jordan Invitational
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country West Region Champions

  • All-West Region
  • NCAA West Region team champions
  • Placed 22nd at West Regional
  • Stanford's No. 7 runner at NCAA Championships helping team place fifth
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Senior (2020-21)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to NCAA West Prelims in the 5,000
  • Ran 5,000 best of 13:49.26 at Stanford Invitational
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country Pac-12 Champions

  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Placed 15th at Pac-12 Championships, his best conference finish
  • No. 6 runner on conference championship lineup
  • Stanford's No. 4 runner, helping team to fifth at NCAA Championships

As a Junior (2019-20)
Outdoors

  • Season canceled

Indoors

  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Ran season best mile of 4:06.27 at the Husky Classic
  • MPSF All-Academic

Cross Country

  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
  • Placed 31st at the Pac-12 Championships
  • Stanford's No. 7 runner at the NCAA Championships on a sixth-place team

As a Sophomore (2018-19)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Ran PB of 8:10.64 in the 3,000 at Husky Classic
  • MPSF All-Academic

Cross Country  • Pac-12 Champions

  • Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
  • No. 4 runner on Stanford's fifth-place NCAA team
  • Placed 24th at the Pac-12 Championships to help Card to conference title

As a Freshman (2017-18)
Outdoors

  • Ran 5,000 lifetime best of 14:10.58 at the Portland Track Festival
  • Made collegiate debut at the Stanford Invitational, running the 1,500
  • Ran 1,500 season best of 3:49.20 at the Payton Jordan Invitational

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country

  • Did not compete

Prior to Stanford

  • 2017 national leader in the 3,000 (8:16.60) while at La Salle Academy
  • No. 4 on 2017 prep list in the mile (4:00.73)
  • Twice nearly broke 4 minutes in the mile as a senior, running 4:00.97 indoors at the New Balance Games in New York, and 4:00.73 outdoors at the Pre Classic
  • In 2017, set Rhode Island records in the mile and 3,000
  • New Balance Outdoor Nationals 5,000 champ in 14:37.09, the nation’s No. 2 time in 2016
  • Third consecutive NBON 5,000 champ to come to Stanford, following Alex Ostberg and Will Lauer
  • 2017 Gatorade Rhode Island Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year
  • Three-time Gatorade Rhode Island Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year
  • Called, by one coach, “the greatest track athlete ever to come out of Rhode Island”
  • Owns 11 state titles and seven team crowns
  • Placed fifth in the Millrose Games invitational elite mile (4:02.96)
  • The first in Rhode Island cross country history to win three consecutive individual overall state titles, winning by nearly a minute as a senior
  • Three-time Rhode Island Class A cross country champion
  • Raced three times at the Nike Cross Nationals
  • Two-time New England cross country champ
  • Part of La Salle Academy teams that won the 4x,1,600 at the 2015 New Balance Indoor Nationals and the 2014 Nike Cross Northeast championships

Personal

  • Parents are David and Denise Principe
  • Has an older sister, Tara
  • Competed in karate from age 3 until choosing to focus on running at 12
  • Has run with his dad since he was 8

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2021-22Outdoors (5)5,00013:51.9721 (14:22.00)----
1,5003:50.61------
8001:56.45------
Indoors (0)------
Cross Country (4)8K23:55.7------
10K30:17.5--22 (30:17.5)193 (31:05.7)
2020-21Outdoors (6)5,00013:49.26DNF35 (14:31.64)--
1,5003:45.37------
Steeple8:57.697 (8:57.69)----
Indoors (0)----------
 Cross Country (4)8K23:17.615 (23:17.6)--72 (31:12.3)
2019-20Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (4)Mile4:06.2711 (4:07.60)----
3,0008:18.4624 (8:18.46)----
DMR9:47.05------
Cross Country (5)8K23:57.231 (23:57.2)----
10K31:20.7--75 (31:20.7)231 (33:57.7)
2018-19Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (3)3,0008:10.6430 (8:24.19)----
Mile4:04.71------
Cross Country (6)8K23:39.924 (23:39.9)----
10K30:17.4--36 (30:17.4)77 (30:27.3)
2017-18Outdoors (7)1,5003:49.2016 (3:50.88)----
5,00014:10.5811 (14:24.68)----
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (0)----------
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2017
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2018
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2019
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