Track's Thomas Slattery Competes at U.S. Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championship

Results

For the first time since 2011, the Fordham track & field team was represented at the 2015 USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championship, held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Freshman Thomas Slattery was one of 14 competitors in the men's 5,000 meter event.  He is the first Ram to compete at Junior Nationals since Sam Houston and Anisa Arsenault represented Fordham in 2011.
 
To qualify for the Junior Championship, an athlete classification shall be limited to those who are fourteen (14) years or older on the day of competition and will not become twenty (20) years of age during the year of the competition.
 
Slattery finished 11th overall in the 5,000 meters in 15:19.47, as he went up against a number of unattached competitors as well as college runners from Oregon, Texas, Oklahoma State, Stony Brook, and Iowa State.
 
After just missing the standard during the indoor season in January, he came back in May at the Swarthmore Final Qualifier to run 14:34.84 in the 5,000 meters, which was well under the official qualifying standard of 14:40.00.
 
Slattery finished a very successful first season with the Rams, as he earned Second Team All-Atlantic 10 honors during the indoor season as a member of the school record men's distance medley relay team and was an IC4A Championship qualifier in the indoor 1,000 meter run.  During cross country season, he was Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week once and had top five finishes at both the Metropolitan and IC4A Championship, both of which Fordham won the team title.