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2024 Cross Country

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Sam Lange

  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Washington, Ill.
  • High School Morton

Biography

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2024: Fall GLIAC Commissioner’s Award Recipient… CSC Academic All-District... Men’s Cross Country USTFCCCA All-Academic Team… USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete… GLIAC Academic Excellence Team… USTFCCCA All-Region… All-GLIAC First Team… Helped Michigan Tech to a 23rd-place team finish at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships in Sacramento, California… Led the Huskies with an 83rd place finish at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships in 31:12.0… Led the Huskies with a 12th place finish at the NCAA Division II Midwest Region Cross Country Championships in 31:18.3… Led the Huskies with a sixth place finish at the GLIAC Cross Country Championships in 24:37.3… Led the Huskies with a 25th place finish at the Lewis Crossover on Oct. 12, in a season’s-best time of 24:33.6… Led the Huskies with an eighth place finish in the Maroon race of the Roy Griak Invitational on Sep. 20, in 26:16.6… Placed eighth in the season opener at the 3rd Annual Phoenix Open on Sept. 6, in 25:09.6…
2023: Men’s Cross Country USTFCCCA All-Academic Team… USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete… GLIAC Academic Excellence Team… USTFCCCA All-Region… Placed 21st at the NCAA Division II Midwest Region Cross Country Championships in 31:22.7… All-GLIAC First Team… Placed sixth at the GLIAC Cross Country Championships in 24:43… Placed 40th at the Lewis Crossover on Oct. 7 in 24:54… Placed 36th in the Maroon race of the Roy Griak Invitational on Sep. 28 in 26:43.6…
2022: GLIAC Academic Excellence Team... Placed 49th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships on Dec. 2, running 30:45.4… Helped the Huskies to a program-best 10th-place team finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships on Dec. 2… USTFCCCA All-Region… Placed 15th at the Midwest Region Cross Country Championships on Nov. 19, running 31:35.1… Placed 18th at the Lewis Crossover on Oct. 8 running 24:32.9… Finished first as a team and eighth individually at the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 23 running 25:40.6… Won the Vic Godfrey Open on Sept. 2, running 18:27.7… Named GLIAC Athlete of the Week on Sept. 6… 2021: Second Team All-GLIAC... GLIAC Academic Excellence Team... Appeared in six fall races, including the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships... Placed 8th at Warrior Challenge with season best 8K time of 25:35.9... Took 13th at GLIAC Cross Country Championships 8K time of 25:57.9... Placed 104th at NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships with 10K time of 32:37.1...Team Scholastic Achievement Award...
High School: Four years most valuable runner...All-State three times and state runner up in 2019...2019 Conference Champion...All-conference three times...section champion...1600 meter conference champion...3200 meters all-state...set 1600 meter school record in 2020 with a time of 4:13.83...Helped team to cross country championship, regional championship, and section championship in 2019...Member of National Honor Society.
Personal: Lived in France for four years...Hobbies include skiing, table tennis, pickleball, spikeball, and playing videogames...Has four siblings, Hannah (24), Benjamin (22), Sophia (20), and Josephine (14).
On choosing MTU: "I chose Michigan Tech because of the great engineering program and the location.

Historical Player Information

  • 2020Freshman

  • 2021Freshman

  • 2022Sophomore

  • 2023Junior

  • 2024Senior

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