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2011-12 Men's Track & Field Roster

Neal Darmody

  • Class Senior
  • Position Distance
  • Height 5-7
  • Weight 133
  • Hometown Gaithersburg, Md.
  • Highschool Quince Orchard

Biography

See also: Cross Country Bio

Career Bests:
Indoor 3,000m: 8:28.19 (2010)
Indoor 5,000m: 14:25.39 (2011)
Outdoor Mile: 4:14.14 (2011)
Outdoor 5,000m: 14:44.25 (2009)
Outdoor 10,000m: 29:54.25 (2011)

2011-12: Won the 5,000 meter race at the CNU indoor invitational with a time of 15:21.66.

2010-11: Became HPU's No. 3 all-time 10,000-meter runner with his career-best 29:54.25 to place 15th at the Stanford Invitational ... Won the 10,000-meter (30:48.46) by 29 seconds and placed second in the 5,000-meter (14:47.96) at the Big South Championship ... Ran a career-best 4:14.14 to place fourth in the mile at the HPU VertKlasse Meeting ... Placed 39th in the 10,000-meter at the first round of the NCAA Championship ... Indoors, placed second in the 5,000-meter in a career-best 14:25.39 and took third in the 3,000-meter (8:29.01) at the Big South Championship ... Won the 5,000-meter at the VT Invitational.

2009-10: Indoors, placed third in the 5,000-meter (14:33.70) and fourth in the 3,000-meter (8:28.19) at the Big South Championship, both career-best times ... Won the 3,000-meter in 8:32.70 at the Gene Anderson UNC Invitational ... Ran the 10,000-meter at the Stanford Invitational, placing 26th in his section in a career-best 30:25.03 ... At the Big South Championship, placed fourth in both the 5,000-meter (15:14.08) and 10,000-meter (31:14.60) ... Placed seventh in the 5,000-meter at the HPU VertKlasse Meeting.

2008-09: During the indoor season, was runner-up to teammate Jesse Cherry with a time of 14:56.19 in the 5,000-meter and placed sixth in the 3,000-meter in 8:48.50 at the Big South Championship ... Ran a season-best 8:41.62 in the 3,000-meter at the Dick Taylor-Carolina Invitational ... Outdoors, placed fourth in the 10,000-meter in 31:26.00 and took seventh in the 5,000-meter in 15:25.45 at the Big South Championship ... Ran a season-best 14:44.25 in the 5,000-meter at HPU's Vertklasse meet ... Millis Scholar-Athlete.

Prep: State champ in the outdoor 3,200-meter in 2007 ... During the 2007-08 indoor season, won state titles in the 1,600-meter and 3,200-meter while his team won the overall title ... Cross country team won state titles in 2006 and 2007, going undefeated in 2006 ... Was county and regional individual cross country champ in 2007 ... Cross country team MVP.

Personal: Exercise Science major ... Son of Peter Darmody and Laurie Smith ... Has one sister, Charlotte ... Born Neal Alex Darmody on Jan. 5, 1990.

Historical Player Information

  • 2009-10Sophomore

    Distance
    5'7" 133 lbs
  • 2010-11Junior

    Distance
    5'7" 133 lbs
  • 2011-12Senior

    Distance
    5'7" 133 lbs