GALEN RUPP
Events: Middle Distance/Distance
Height: 5-11
Weight: 138
PRs: 1,500m - 3:44.39 (2005); Mile - 4:01.8 (2004); 3,000m - 7:49.16AJR (2005); 5,000m - 13:30.49 (2007); 10,000m – 27:33.48 (2007)
Born: May 8, 1986, Portland, Ore.
Current Residence: Portland, Ore.
High School: Central Catholic (Portland) HS ‘04
College:  Oregon ‘08
Coach: Alberto Salazar 

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up in 10,000m; 2007 USA Outdoor Champs 10,000m runner-up; 2005 USA Junior Cross Country champion; U.S. Junior 3,000m, 5,000m & 10,000m record holder; 2006 Pac-10 cross country champion; 2007 Pac-10 5,000m & 10,000m champion; 2007 NCAA 10,000m runner-up;

A star at the University of Oregon, Rupp red-shirted in 2008 to prepare for the Olympic Trials in Eugene, where he finished second in the 10,000m, which punched his ticket for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where he placed 13th as the fastest non-African in the race. Rupp’s time in Beijing of 27:36.99 was the second-fastest by an American 9n 2008. Rupp ended the 2007 season as a seven-time NCAA All-American (outdoors - 2; indoors - 4; cross country 1), and also in 2007 he finished 11th in the 10,000 meters at the World Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan. He set a new personal best in the 10,000m of 27:33.48, which was the second-fastest time by an American that season and helped him to the #2 ranking in that event nationally from Track & Field News. In 2006, Rupp captured his first Pac-10 individual crown when he crossed the line in 23:03. Rupp went on to pace the Ducks to victory at the 10,000-meter NCAA West Regional race with a fourth-place finish (30:15) and finished sixth (31.03) in the NCAA Cross Country Championships. One of the nation’s top young distance runners, Rupp faced his initial indoor season and second outdoor campaign for the University of Oregon in 2006, finishing sixth in the 3,000 meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships and second at the Pac-10 Championships at 10,000 meters. In 2005, Rupp finished as the NCAA 10,000 runner-up and top American finisher as a freshman outdoors. In two months prior, he re-energized the Hayward Field home crowd's distance yearnings with three stirring runs, including a 10 km U.S. junior record in the 2005 Oregon Twilight meet. Rupp was high point scorer for the Ducks in both the 2005 Pac-10 and NCAA Championships, and helped UO’s men’s squad to a Pac-10 team win and ninth-place NCAA finish. In his first collegiate cross country season in 2005, Rupp ran twice for the Ducks in the opening month of the campaign before a foot injury cut his season short. As a prep, he trained under former Oregon distance great Alberto Salazar and was a national high school athlete of the year as a senior in 2004, national junior record holder in the 5,000 meters (13:37.91), national cross country runner-up in 2003 and a five-time Oregon state champion (track-3, cross country-2).  Rupp won the 2005 USA Cross Country Championship race for Junior Men with a 25:14 clocking over the Fort Vancouver course.  After a long 2005 summer season racing in North America and Europe, Rupp delayed his fall training build-up several weeks.  Rupp is one of the nation’s most impressive high school runners in history.  In 2004, he broke Jerry Lindgren’s 40-year old U.S. junior record for 5,000 meters by running 13:37.91 for the distance.  Rupp also holds the U.S. high school record for 3000m at 8:03.67. In the classroom, he is a two-time ESPN Magazine First Team Academic All-American and a four-time Pac-10 All-Academic First Team choice. He is a Pre-Business major at the University of Oregon.

2008: 13th at Olympic Games (27:36.99)…2nd at Olympic Trials in 10,000m (27:43.11) and 5,000m finalist (DNS)…1st in 3,000m at adidas Track Classic (7:51.17)…bests of 7:51.17 & 27:36.99.
2007: USA Outdoors 10,000m runner-up (28:23.21)…NCAA 10,000m runner-up (28:56.19)… 11th at World Outdoors (28:41.71)...PAC-10 5,000m champion (14:02.00) and 10,000m champion (29:07.84)…1st in 5,000m at Oregon Invitational (13:30.49PR)…1st in 10,000m at Cardinal Invitational (27:33.48PR)…ranked #2 in U.S. at 10,000m by T&FN…bests of 27:33.48, 13:30.49.
2006: Pac-10 XC Champ (23:03)…6th at NCAA XC Champs (31:03)…4th at NCAA West Regional XC (30:15)…2nd at Pac-10 Champs 10,000m (30:42.10)…3rd at Pac-10 Champs 5,000m (14:00.94)…20th at NCAA Champs prelims (14:14.02)…7th at Lignano (7:56.3)…bests of 7:56.3, 14:14.02, 30:42.10.
2005: Runner-up at USA Junior Champs 1,500m (3:47.47)…USA Junior Cross Country champ (25:13)…4th at Junior Pan Ams (3:50.96)…10th at Cuxhaven, Germany (3:44.39PR)…4th in 3,000m at Lignano, Italy (7:44.39AJR)…4th at Pac-10 Champs (13:57.43)…1st at Oregon Twilight 10,000m (28:15.52AJR)…ranked #4 U.S. at 10,000m by T&FN…bests of 3:44.39, 7:44.39, 28:15.52.
2004: Oregon state cross country champ (14:55)…5:18.5 2,000m National HS record…10,000m 29:09.56…state record in 1,500m (3:45.3) and mile (4:01.8)…bests of 8:03.57 National HS record, 13:37.91AJR.
2003: Oregon state cross country champ (14.56)…bests of 3:53.58, 8:14.00.
2002: 6th at Oregon state cross country champs (15.46)…bests of 3:58.6, 8:32.46.


10/10/08