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UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER YELLOWJACKETS

2024 Men's Cross Country Roster

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Sam Yacob

Sam Yacob

  • Class:
    Sophomore
  • Hometown:
    West Henrietta, NY
  • Highschool:
    Rush-Henrietta

Summary

Biography

At UR 2024: Sophomore competed five times for the Yellowjackets...Opened the year with back-to-back top-100 finishes at the Fisher-RodenbeckĀ Invite (91st, 22:56.6) and the Hamilton Short Course (79th, 17:56.5)...Set a new, personal-best, 8k time of 29:03.3 at the Mike Woods Invitational on Oct. 19.

At UR 2023: Raced four times as a first-year...Earned a top-100 finish to open the year at the Highlander Short Course, finishing 66th with a time of 13:40.0...Ran a season's-best time of 29:15.2 at the Mike Woods Invitational.

HS: Ran track & field and cross country at Rush-Henrietta Senior High School...Track & Field Team Captain his senior year...Earned Indoor Track & Field MVP honors junior year...20223 Indoor First-Team All-County in the 4x800 meter relay...Section 5 Class A winner in the 4x800 meter relay...2022 First-Team All-County in the 1K and 4x800 relay...2022 NYS Cross Country Federations...5K personal-best time of 18:01...Personal-best times of 4:44 in the 1,600 meters, 2:42 in the 1K, 2:04 in the 800 meters, 1:30 in the 600 meters and 54.6 in the 400 meters...Helped the Royal Comets to runner-up finishes at the 2022 Indoor Track Sections and 2021 and 2021 Outdoor Track Sectionals...Member of the National Honors Society, RIT Step, Black Scholars and DECA State Conference.

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