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
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2021-22 | Outdoors (5) | 5,000 | 13:51.97 | 21 (14:22.00) | -- | -- |
| 1,500 | 3:50.61 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 800 | 1:56.45 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Cross Country (4) | 8K | 23:55.7 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 10K | 30:17.5 | -- | 22 (30:17.5) | 193 (31:05.7) | ||
| 2020-21 | Outdoors (6) | 5,000 | 13:49.26 | DNF | 35 (14:31.64) | -- |
| 1,500 | 3:45.37 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Steeple | 8:57.69 | 7 (8:57.69) | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (4) | 8K | 23:17.6 | 15 (23:17.6) | -- | 72 (31:12.3) | |
| 2019-20 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (4) | Mile | 4:06.27 | 11 (4:07.60) | -- | -- | |
| 3,000 | 8:18.46 | 24 (8:18.46) | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 9:47.05 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (5) | 8K | 23:57.2 | 31 (23:57.2) | -- | -- | |
| 10K | 31:20.7 | -- | 75 (31:20.7) | 231 (33:57.7) | ||
| 2018-19 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (3) | 3,000 | 8:10.64 | 30 (8:24.19) | -- | -- | |
| Mile | 4:04.71 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (6) | 8K | 23:39.9 | 24 (23:39.9) | -- | -- | |
| 10K | 30:17.4 | -- | 36 (30:17.4) | 77 (30:27.3) | ||
| 2017-18 | Outdoors (7) | 1,500 | 3:49.20 | 16 (3:50.88) | -- | -- |
| 5,000 | 14:10.58 | 11 (14:24.68) | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |