Mark Steeds had his highest-ever NCAA Championship finish with an 11th place showing in the 5,000m finals on Friday night at McDonnell Field.
Steeds concludes his Georgia State career with this 11th place finish that follows his 12th place finish in cross country that had earned him All-America status. Last year at the NCAA Championship, Steeds finished 12th.
In 75-degree weather tonight, Steeds ran 14:20 to finish nine seconds away from All-America status. Galen Rupp, the Olympian from Oregon, won the race. His 14:01 in Wednesday’s prelims was his fastest NCAA time in his two trips to the NCAAs. His career personal-best was 13:46.85 this year at the Oregon Twilight Meet.
This 11th place finish by Steeds is not the best-ever in school history as Andrew Letherby earned a ninth-place spot in the 1997 NCAA Championship Meet.
In the classroom, Steeds is an Academic All-District first team track honoree after having been named the CAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year for cross country.
The 6-0 senior athlete from Paris, Ontario, Canada was Georgia State’s Male Student-Athlete of the Year for 2008-09.
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