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2019 Men's Track and Field Roster

Mike Gryniewicz
Mike Gryniewicz

Suneed Ahmed

  • Position Distance
  • Class Senior
  • Ht./Wt. - /
  • Hometown Grayslake, Ill.
  • High School Central

Biography

2019 (Track and Field): Finished 21st in the 5,000-meter run (16:36:13) at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship...finished 13th in the 10,000-meter run (33:04:45) at the CCIW Outdoor Track and Field Championship…CCIW Winter/Spring 2019 Academic All-Conference.

2018 (Cross Country): Participated in five events...tallied a season-best 26:34.8 at the CCIW Cross Country Championship and a 27:35.2 at the NCAA Midwest Regional after sitting out the first two meets of the season due to injury... CCIW 2018 Fall Academic All-Conference. 

2018 (Track & Field): Finished 15th in the 5,000-meter run (16:06.29) at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship...finished eighth in the 10,000-meter run (32:18.57) at the CCIW Outdoor Track and Field Championship...notched an outdoor personal-best 4:16.85 in the 1,500-meter run at the Wheaton Invitational...collected an indoor personal-best 4:26.25 in the mile run at the North Central Cardinal Opener...CCIW Winter /Spring 2018 Academic All-Conference.

2017 (Cross Country):  Finished eighth at the CCIW Cross Country Championship with a time of 25:37.20 and named All-CCIW...registered a career-best 25:33.10 at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional...paced all Red Men at the Principia Invitational (19:55.30), Carleton “Running of the Cows” (25:56.8) and the Wisconsin-Oshkosh “Kollege Town Sports Invitational” (26:27.9)…Fall 2017 CCIW Academic All-Conference.

2017 (Track & Field):  Finished fourth in the 10,000-meter run (31:50.32) at the CCIW Outdoor Track and Field Championship…finished ninth in the 5,000-meter run (15:30.05) at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship.
 
2016 (Cross Country):  Finished ninth at the CCIW Cross Country Championship with a time of 26:42.60 and named All-CCIW... ran a season-best 26:01 at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship...won the AAE Invitational and the Wheaton (Ill.) Gil Dodds Invitational.

2016 (Track & Field): Finished fourth in the 10,000-meter run (35:20.85) at the CCIW Outdoor Track and Field Championships...finished 17th in the 5,000-meter run (16:24.99) at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship.

2015 (Cross Country):  Ran a season-best 26.48.0 at the NCAA Midwest Regional.

High School:  Named Daily Herald All-Lake County his senior year on a team that won a regional title and finished sixth at the Illinois High School Association state championship…his junior-year team also won a regional championship and finished 17th at the state championship…coached by Jimmy Centella…four-year member of the track and field team and earned All-Fox Valley Conference honors as part of a 4x800-meter relay team…played soccer his freshman and sophomore years.

Personal: Exercise and sport science major...member of the Carthage Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC)...five-time member of the Carthage College Dean's List (Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018).
 
Career Results

Historical Player Information

  • 2016Freshman

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  • 2017Sophomore

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  • 2018Junior

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  • 2019Senior

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