American University

• Spring, 1935 - To date, the most active spring sports program in AU's history. Intercollegiate track and tennis are offered.
• February, 1936 - AU joins the newly formed Mason-Dixon Conference, along with Baltimore College, Johns Hopkins, St. Johns College, Gallaudet, Catholic, Washington College and Randolph-Macon. [At this time, the conference may be for track only. By 1940, the conference will include all sports.]
• April, 1940 - Mason-Dixon conference finalized; including AU, Delaware University, Johns Hopkins, Maryland Teacher's College, Western Maryland, Washington College, and a few unnamed others. The conference seeks to "solidify small college athletics and to stimulate a competitive spirit." The conference will immediately organize competition for basketball and track, and in the future will organize baseball, tennis, soccer, and wrestling.
• November, 1947 - Announcement that new track facilities will be built.
• March, 1954 - For the first time since 1951, AU fields a track team
• May, 1961 - Track team wins first Mason-Dixon championship.
• Fall, 1961 - AU offers 12 men's intercollegiate sports. Fall sports are tennis, cross-country, soccer, crew; winter sports are basketball, wrestling and track; and spring sports are track, baseball, tennis and golf.
• March 15, 1966 - AU enters the NCAA indoor track championships with the top-ranked mile relay team and finishes in fifth place in the NCAA indoor championships.
• March 22, 1966 - Men's track team wins the first Mason-Dixon indoor track championship and the NCAA Eastern Regional college division.
• May 3, 1966 - Pole vaulter Peter Chen becomes first AU athlete to win a Penn Relay Championship.
• May 17, 1966 - Men's track team wins second consecutive Mason-Dixon indoor track championship.
• December 16, 1966 - Men's track team members Peter Chen (pole vault) and Andrew Butch Bell (440 meter hurdles) named College Division All-Americans.
• March 14, 1967 - Pole vaulter Peter Chen finishes sixth in the NCAA indoor track championships.
• August, 1967 - Pole vaulter Peter Chen wins NCAA college division championship.
• Summer, 1967 - Hurdler Butch Bell finishes first in college division 440 meter intermediate hurdles and second in the university division. He becomes the first AU athlete to be named "University" Division All-American.
• March 19, 1968 - Pole vaulter Peter Chen finishes second in the NCAA indoor championship.
• November 22, 1971 - Men’s cross country places 19th at the NCAA Championships in Knoxville, Tenn., a race in which eight future Olympians competed.
• December 3, 1971 - Cross country team wins Middle Atlantic Conference Championships.
• April 26, 1985 - New inductees to AU's Athletics Hall of Fame: Kermit Washington, Butch Bell, Bill Mason (baseball) and Vidvus Celtnicks ('65 graduate who lettered in 5 sports - cross country, track, soccer, wrestling and crew).

• Spring, 2000 - American leaves Colonial Athletic Association to become the eighth member of the Patriot League.
• June 1, 2002 - Sean O'Brien earns All-America honors in the 1,500m at the NCAA Track Championships. O'Brien became the first American athlete to earn two All-America honors since 1985.
• October 28, 2006 - The men's cross country team becomes the first Patriot League school to win five consecutive league titles. The team goes on to finish second at regionals and make its school-record third straight trip to the NCAA Championships.
• February 21, 2010 - Women's indoor track and field senior Erin Koch captured the Patriot League women's 1000 meter title in a time of 2:57.37.
• November 22, 2010 - Junior Octavia Rinehardt competed at the NCAA Cross Country Championship.
• February 20-21, 2011 - Junior Octavia Rinehardt wins the 3,000 and 5,000 meter championships at the Patriot League Indoor Championships.
• May 6-7, 2011 - Men's outdoor track and field wins the 4x800 meter title and junior Octavia Rinehardt claims the 5,000 meter title at the Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
• May 4, 2013 - Men's outdoor track and field senior Mark Allen wins the 5,000 meter title at the Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
• November 2, 2013 - Men's cross country freshman Brendan Johnson honored as PL Rookie of the Year.
• April 11, 2015 - Pair of AU women's track & field school records fall at Mason Spring Invitational. Kinnari Badger went 25.90 in the women's 200-meter dash to post AU's first-ever mark under 26 seconds in the event. Brianna Belo rolled to a 57.59 time in the women's 400, cutting exactly a second off the school record.
• May 11, 2015 - Josh Ellis breaks a school record that had stood for 42 years by running 8:58.68 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Swarthmore Final Qualifier Meet. 
• May 29, 2015 - Josh Ellis runs in the NCAA East Preliminary Outdoor Track and Field meet. 
• August 23, 2015 - Assistant track coach Kerri Gallagher competes in the women's 1,500-meter run at the IAAF World Championships.
• May 6, 2016 - Brendan Johnson wins the men's 10,000-meter and Brianna Belo win the women's 800-meter run at the Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
• February 16, 2017 - Men's indoor track and field claimed two Patriot League Titles in the 4x800m and the 800m (Liam Purdy).
• May 5, 2017 - Men's outdoor track and field wins the 4x800m at the Patriot League Championships.
• August 3, 2017 – Sean Graham is hired as the head coach of American’s cross country and track and field program, returning to D.C. after previously serving as an assistant from 2009-11.
• February 18, 2018 – Briana Belo wins the women’s indoor 800-meter run conference championship with a time of 2:12.12.
• April 6, 2018 – Briana Belo breaks her own school record in the women’s 800-meter run, leading the 69-woman field at the Colonial Relays with a final time of 2:07.52.
• May 24, 2018 - For the first time since 2013, the American University track & field team will have two qualifiers into the NCAA Championships East Preliminary Round, as senior Brianna Belo (800m) and junior Matthew Rainey (1500m) both advanced into the first round of the national championship. Belo once again breaks her own school record in the 800-meter run. 
• May 4, 2019 - American University track & field senior Adriana Hooks highlighted the Patriot League Championship meet for the Eagles squad with two podium finishes, including the program's first-ever title in the women's 10,000-meter run.
• May 24, 2019 - Senior Liam Purdy closes his American University track & field career in style on Friday, earning the highest finish ever for an AU runner at the NCAA Championships East Preliminary Round with an 18th-place finish in the 800-meter run.
• March 12, 2020 - Patriot League cancels all spring practices and competitions due to COVID-19.
• Nov. 24, 2020 - Women's track & field alumna Keira D'Amato breaks the American record in the 10-mile at inaugural run of the Up Dawg 10-Miler in Washington, D.C., leading a small field of five elite women with a final time of 51:23 to break the previous record held by Janet Bawcom since 2014 by 49 seconds. 

Mid-Atlantic Conference Team Champions

1971, 1972 (East Division), 1973 (East Division)

Patriot League Team Champions

2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Mid-Atlantic Conference Individual Champions

1971, Gary Cohen
1972, Gary Cohen
1973, Gary Cohen
1974, Cary Cohen

Patriot League Individual Champions

2003, Pat MacAdie (25:18.8)
2004, Pat MacAdie (25:37.0)
2005, Steve Hallinan (24:27.0)
2006, Brendan Fennell (25:20.8)
2007, Brendan Fennell (25:00.0)

Patriot League Team Champions

2002, 2003

Patriot League Individual Champions

2002, Samia Akbar (21:53.8)
2003, Keira Carlstrom (20:02.8)
2004, Keira Carlstrom (21:44.4)
2005, Keira Carlstrom (20:19.0)

Men's Team Championships (Indoor)

1966       
Mason Dixon Conference Champions

Men's Team Championships (Outdoor)

1961       
Mason Dixon Conference Champions

1966       
Mason Dixon Conference Champions

Men's Mid-Atlantic Conference Individual Champions (Outdoor)

1973
Wilbert Smith - 100m - 10.84
David Reinhart - 3000m Steeplechase - 8:59.44
Gary Cohen - 5000m - 14:09.64
David Legge, David Reinhart, Gary Cohen, Harp - 4xMile Relay - 17:17.20

Men's Patriot League Individual Champions (Outdoor)

2002       
Sean Duffy - 800m - 1:52.38
Sean Duffy - 1500m - 3:49.51
Matt Seymour - 5000m - 14:42.61
Mike Reilly, Colas, Sean Duffy, Sean O’Brien - 4x800 Relay - 7:36.35

2003      
Sean O’Brien - 800m - 1:52.94
Sean Duffy - 1500m - 3:45.56
Matt Seymour - 5000m - 14:30.58
Hunt, Sean Duffy, Phil Gaeta,Sean O’Brien - 4x800m Relay - 7:31.99

2004       
Sean Duffy - 800m - 1:52.19
Sean Duffy - 1500m - 3:47.22
Matt Seymour - 5000m - 14:44.49
Matt Seymour - 10000m - 30:41.20
Alex Caudana, Sean Duffy, Dustin Emrani, Phil Gaeta - 4x800 Relay - 7:30.25

2005      
Dustin Emrani - 800m - 1:50.52
Sean Duffy - 1500m - 3:44.97
Pat MacAdie - 5000m - 14:27.05
Alex Caudana, Phil Gaeta, Dustin Emrani, Sean Duffy- 4x800 Relay - 7:28.87

2006       
Steve Hallinan - 5000m - 14:35.32
Awit Yohannes - 10000m - 31:10.38
Alex Caudana, Brendan Fennell, Steve Hallinan, Dustin Emrani - 4x800 Relay - 7:34.81

2007       
Dustin Emrani - 800m - 1:49.00
Brendan Fennell - 1500m - 3:46.51
Alex Caudana, Brian McCabe, Steve Hallinan, Dustin Emrani - 4x800 Relay - 7:26.77

2008      
Carlos Jamieson - 1500m - 3:43.22
Steve Hallinan, Conor Sullivan, Brendan Fennell, Carlos Jamieson - 4x800 Relay - 7:29.49

2013       
Mark Allen - 5000m - 14:25.77

2016      
Brendan Johnson - 10000m - 30:18.89

2017      
Alaeldin Tirba, Ben Doiron, Matthew Rainey, Liam Purdy - 4x800 Relay - 7:34.64

Men's Patriot League Individual Champions (Indoor)

2002     
Sean Duffy - 1000m - 2:27.09
Sean O’Brien - Mile - 4:03.38
Frank Malpigli - 5000m - 14:40.89
Sean O’Brien, Sean Duffy, Colas, Carlos Hunt - 4x800 Relay - 7:37.91

2003     
Andy Ellerhorst - 500m - 1:05.61
Sean Duffy - 1000m - 2:28.51
Sean O’Brien - Mile - 4:09.15
Carlos Hunt, Sean Duffy, Phil Gaeta, Sean O’Brien - 4x800 Relay - 7:36.58
Sean O’Brien, Campbell, Sean Duffy, Phil Gaeta - DMR - 10:10.68

2004       
Matt Seymour - 3000m - 8:22.14

2005      
Dustin Emrani - 500m - 1:54.18
Phil Gaeta - 1000m - 2:29.04
Sean Duffy - Mile - 4:13.12
Pat MacAdie - 5000m - 14:42.41
Alex Caudana, Sean Duffy, Dustin Emrani, Brian McCabe - 4x800 Relay - 7:37.72
Alex Caudana, Chris Beurger, Hofmann, Brendan Fennell - DMR - 10:05.05

2006       
Dustin Emrani - 800m - 1:54.47
Steve Hallinan - 3000m - 8:21.24
Alex Caudana, Steve Hallinan, Dustin Emrani, Brian McCabe - 4x800 Relay - 7:55.99

2007       
Dustin Emrani - 800m - 1:52.14
Brian McCabe - 1000m - 2:27.44
Brendan Fennell - Mile - 4:06.67
Alex Caudana, Brian McCabe, Steve Hallinan, Dustin Emrani - 4x800 Relay - 7:31.91

2008       
Carlos Jamieson - 3000m - 8:16.68
Conor Sullivan, Dan King, Brian McCabe, Steve Hallinan - DMR - 10:00.23

2017      
Liam Purdy - 800m - 1:53.25
Alaeldin Tirba, Chandler Ross, Matthew Rainey, Liam Purdy - 4x800 Relay - 7:31.30

Women's Patriot League Individual Champions (Outdoor)

2002
Samia Akbar - 5000m - 17:31.81

2003       
Keira Carlstrom - 1500m - 4:31.82
Samia Akbar - 5000m - 17:02.36

2004       
Keira Carlstrom - 800m - 2:11.95
Keira Carlstrom - 1500m - 4:27.88

2005      
Keira Carlstrom - 5000m - 16:34.28

2006      
Keira Carlstrom - 1500m - 4:26.20

2016       
Brianna Belo - 800m - 2:08.23

2018
Brianna Belo - 800m - 2:07.79

2019
Adriana Hooks - 10k - 36:00.48

Women's Patriot League Individual Champions (Indoor)

2002       
Samia Akbar - 5000m - 4:55.59

2003       
Keira Carlstrom - 1000m - 2:55.54
Samia Akbar - Mile - 4:55.59
Megan Simpson, Zaia Wharton, Keira Carlstrom, Samia Akbar - 4x800 Relay - 9:10.59
Keira Carlstrom, Megan Simpson, Zaia Wharton, Samia Akbar - DMR - 12:03.92

2004       
Zaia Wharton - 1000m - 2:56.91
Kelley Taylor - Mile - 4:57.51
Keira Calstrom - 3000m - 9:43.46
Kelley Taylor, Ashley Dellinger, Whitney McNees, Keira Carlstrom - DMR - 12:05.81

2005       
Keira Carlstrom - Mile - 5:02.28
Keira Carlstrom - 3000m - 10:09.42
Keira Carlstrom, Zaia Wharton, Madeline Lynch, Megan Simpson - 4x800 Relay - 9:08.53
Keira Carlstrom, Ashley Dellinger, Madeline Lynch, Megan Simpson - DMR - 12:23.73

2006       
Keira Carlstrom - Mile - 9:58.10
Keira Carlstrom - 3000m - 9:58.10

2008       
Cathleen Ford - 3000m - 10:01.34

2010       
Erin Koch - 1000m - 2:57.37

2011       
Octavia Rinehardt - 3000m - 9:59.45
Octavia Rinehardt - 5000m - 17:11.17

2018
Brianna Belo - 800m - 2:12.12