Sean McGorty Season 2015-16

TFRRS Performance Profile

* Ten-time All-America *

Personal bests (thru 2018):

• Mile: 3:53.95i
• 5,000: 13:24.25
• 1,500: 3:40.57
• 3,000: 7:48.79i
• Two mile: 8:45.61

As a 5th year senior (2017-18):
Outdoor

• NCAA 5,000 champion.
• First-team All-America (5,000).
• U.S. 1,500 finalist.
• Pac-12 Men's Track Athlete of the Week (April 3).
• Big Meet 3,000 winner.
• Pac-12 All-Academic first team.
• Team captain.

Indoor

• First-team All-America (DMR).
• Fourth in NCAA distance medley relay.
• Broke school distance medley relay record.

As a senior (2016-17):
Outdoors

• Ran 3:46.99 in the 1,500 at Payton Jordan Invite.

Indoors

• Did not compete.

Cross country

• Earned All-America honors by placing 24th at NCAA Championships.
• Was No. 2 runner on NCAA runner-up team.
• All-West Region selection.
• All-Pac-12 first team.
• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.

As a junior (2015-16):
Outdoors

• First-team outdoor All-America (5,000).
• NCAA 5,000 runner-up, trailing Oregon's Edward Cheserek by 0.51.
• Olympic Trials qualifier and semifinalist in the 5,000.
• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.
• CoSIDA Academic All-America second team.
• Big Meet 1,500 winner.
• Ran 13:24.25 in outdoor 5,000 at Payton Jordan Invitational, making him No. 10 all-time among American collegians.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic team.

Indoors

• USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Male Indoor Track Scholar Athlete of the Year.
• First-team All-America in the 3,000 and distance medley relay.
• Second at NCAA Championships to Oregon's Edward Cheserek in the 3,000 (8:01.55).
• Anchored Stanford to fourth in the NCAA DMR, running a 3:58.19, passing four teams.
• Crushed Stanford absolute mile record with a 3:53.95 on the 307-meter Dempsey Indoor track at the MPSF Championships.
• Because it was run on an oversized track, McGorty and winner Izaic Yorks did not get credit for the two-fastest times in American collegiate history.
• However, they were the two fastest indoor times ever run by American collegians on any sized indoor track (and Nos. 3 and 4 among all collegians).
• No. 5 performance by an American collegian indoors or outdoors.
• No. 10 performer among collegians indoors or outdoors.
• Converted to a 1,500 time (3:36.62), it was the fastest by a Stanford runner on American soil or against collegiate competition.
• Became the fourth-fastest American collegiate miler ever, indoors or outdoors.
• Anchored Stanford's distance medley relay to a school record 9:27.27 at the Penn State National, by running a 1,600 anchor split of 3:55.8.
• It was the fifth-fastest DMR in collegiate history.
• MPSF All-Academic team.
• Ran 7:48.79 -- tying Jonathon Riley for the No. 2 3,000 in Stanford indoor history -- in finishing second to Syracuse' Justyn Knight in another great duel, at the Iowa State Classic.

Cross country

• USTFCCCA Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
• Earned second cross country All-America honors by placing seventh at NCAA Championships.
• Fourth American at NCAA Championships.
• Team's No. 2 (10K, 29:53.4) as Stanford placed third.
• All-West Region.
• All-Pac-12 first team.
• Pac-12 runner-up (8K, 23:13.7).
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
• Stanford Invitational winner (8K, 23:07.0).
• Raced five times and was Stanford's No. 1 in three of them.

As a sophomore (2014-15):
Outdoors

• Earn first-team All-America honors by placing eighth in the 5,000 at the NCAA Championships.
• Ran 13:53.63 to finish one spot ahead of teammate Erik Olson.
• Second in the Big Meet in the 1,500 in a personal best 3:40.62.
• Fifth in the Pac-12 Championships 1,500 in 3:47.07.
• Anchored Stanford to two third-place finishes at the Penn Relays, in the 4xMile and distance medley relay.
• Raced the 1,500 at the U.S. Championships, placing seventh in heat (3:49.94) and 25th overall.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic team.
• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.

Indoors

• Ran a sub-4:00 mile in his first collegiate track race, running 3:59.34 to finish third at the UW Indoor Classic, behind only Olympians Matthew Centrowitz and Cam Levins.
• Became the 426th American to run a sub-4:00 mile.
• Ran only two individual races all season, finishing ninth in the 3,000 at the Husky Classic in 7:54.68.
• Earned second-team All-America honors by anchoring Stanford's distance medley relay team to 10th place (9:50.50) at the NCAA Championships.
• Anchored Stanford to second in the DMR at the Alex Wilson Invite at Notre Dame (9:29.34).

Cross country

• Placed 20th at the NCAA Championships (30:41.9, 10K) in only his second meet of the season.
• Earned All-America honors.
• Was No. 2 runner on Stanford's NCAA runner-up team.
• 13th at Pac-12 Championships (23:56, 8K) and No. 3 Stanford runner in season debut.
• Named to the All-Pac-12 second team.

As a freshman (2013-14):
Outdoors

• Redshirted, but competed and excelled in several races while running unattached.
• Won the Brutus Hamilton Invitational mile in 4:00.35, a PR by four seconds.
• Ran 13:37.64, which would have been second only to Chris Derrick among Stanford freshmen if not redshirting.
• The time placed him sixth in the Payton Jordan 'B' race on his fast 5,000.
• It was his first 5,000 race on the track.
• Ran 1,500 PR of 3:44.82 while placing second in the second section of the Stanford Invitational.

Indoors

• Finished second in the invitational 3,000 (7:59.11) at the UW Invitational while running unattached.

Cross country

• An All-West Region selection after finishing 12th at the NCAA West Regionals in Sacramento.
• Was No. 4 on the team in 29:57 (10K).
• Was Stanford's No. 4 (161st overall) at the NCAA Championships (31:13.1) in Terre Haute.
• Broke on to the scene by finishing fifth overall and No. 1 for Stanford in his collegiate debut, at the Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind., on Oct. 19.
• His time was 23:38.97 over 8K.
• While running unattached, was fifth at the Stanford Invitational and No. 3 among all Stanford runners (24:32, 8K).

 National/International:

• Advanced to the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials 5,000 final, running 14:03.99 for 15th.
• Won the North American, Central American, and Caribbean junior cross country title and led the U.S. team to victory on Feb. 22, 2014, at Mount Irvine, Tobago.
• Won the 2014 U.S. junior national championship while leading Stanford to a 1-2-3 sweep of the 8K race (24:44) at Flatirons Golf Course in Boulder, Colo.
• Fourth at the 2013 U.S. junior nationals in the 1,500, in 3:49.26.

High School:

• Won the 2013 New Balance Outdoor Championships with a state record 8:45.61 for two miles in Greensboro, N.C.
• Led wire to wire to win by nearly seven seconds.
• It was the second-fastest two-mile in the country in 2013.
• Won every cross-country race in 2012, except for a runner-up finish in the Foot Locker nationals in San Diego.
• Among his victories was a state-meet record 14:47 over 5K to win the Virginia Group AAA title.
• Repeated as the Virginia 3A champion in the 3,200.
• Followed his 9:05.51 title-winning run in 2012 with 8:58.02 victory in 2013.
• Ran 4:04.47 to set a Penn Relays high school mile record.
• It was the No. 3 mile in the country in 2013.

Personal:

• Majoring in management science and engineering.
• Son of Kevin and Vicki McGorty, who both competed in track and field at North Carolina.
• Father was a three-time Atlantic Coast Conference decathlon champ and competed in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Trials.
• Father coaches the multis, pole vault, and high jump at George Mason University.
• Mother is the former Vicki Verinder.
• Sean has younger brothers Ryan and Brandon.
• Grandfather, Donald McGorty, competed in basketball and track at Manhattan College.
• Uncles Chris and Dennis McGorty were collegiate track athletes at Maryland and North Carolina, respectively.

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