2024-25 Cross Country
Roster
Sean Kay Cross Country Roster
Distance
Class
Graduate Student/Senior
Hometown
Arlington, MA
High School
Arlington Catholic/Yale
PRIOR TO NOTRE DAME (AT YALE)
AS A SENIOR (2023-24)
CROSS COUNTRY
- Placed 2nd at HYP in a new PR of 18:08 over 6k
- Ran 24:17 at Paul Short placing 12th..
- At HEPS he ran 24:38 to place 18th over the 8k
- At NCAA Northeast regionals he ran 29:58 to place 13th and qualifying for NCAA nationals individually
- He ran 31:21 at NCAA XC nationals to place 177th against the best runners in the nation
INDOOR
- Opened up at the Dr. Sander Invitational and set a 5000m PR of 14:09.56 to move to third of all time at Yale
- Followed up with a 3000m PR of 8:06.35 at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational
- Placed seventh in the 5000m at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships
OUTDOOR
- Began outdoors at Raleigh Relays with a 10,000m PR of 29:19.50 and moved to fifth of all time at Yale
- Placed tenth in the 10,000m at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships
AS A JUNIOR (2022-23)
CROSS COUNTRY
- Opened his cross country season with a 19:06.4 6k PR at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet
- Finished 30th at the Lehigh Paul Short Run in an 8k PR of 23:29.8
- Secured an All-Ivy 7th place finish at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, running 24:19.8 over the 8k distance
- Concluded his season with a 10k PR of 29:54.5 to finish an All-Region 19th at the NCAA Division I Northeast Region Championships
INDOOR
- Ran a 3000m PR of 8:15.33 at the Boston University Valentine Invitational
- Placed 9th in the 5000m at the Ivy League Championships
OUTDOOR
- Ran a new 5000m PR of 14.13.29 at the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet.
- Placed 7th at the Ivy League Championships over 10,000m
- RAN a PR of 29:25.10 at the Yale Last Chance Invitational to earn qualification for the NCAA East Regional meet
- Placed 38th at NCAA East Regional
AS A SOPHOMORE (2021-22)
CROSS COUNTRY
- Finished 12th at Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet running a personal best time of 24:32.9 over 8000m in first race of season
- Finished 36th at Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown, running a time of 25:08.2 over 8000m
- Finished 19th at Panorama Farms XC23 Invitational, running a time of 24:48.2 over 8000m
- Finished 37th at Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships, running a time of 25:09.3 over 8000m
- Concluded cross country finishing 55th at the NCAA Division I Northeast Region Cross Country Championships, running 31:54.0 for 10,000m
INDOOR
- Unable to compete due to an injury
OUTDOOR
- Earned a personal best in the 1500m of 3:58.49 at UConn Dog Fight Invitational
- Finished third in the 5000m against Harvard, running 14:23.37
- Earned a personal best in the 5000m at Penn Relays, running a No. 13 all-time Yale mark of 14:20.79.
AS A FRESHMAN (2020-21)
No competition due to COVID-19
PREP AND PERSONAL
- All-league all four years of track and field and cross country
- Two-time league MVP 2017, 2018
- Massachusetts Coaches Cross Country Athlete of the Year 2019
- Team Captain 2018, 2019
- Set school records in two mile and one mile
- Four-time cross country league champion 2016-2020
- Two-time cross country divisional champion 2018, 2019
- Two-time two mile divisional champion 2019, 2020
- All-State Champion 2019 Cross Country
- Team won 2018 league championship