2024-25 Cross Country Roster

Sean Kay Cross Country Roster

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Class Graduate Student/Senior
Hometown Arlington, MA
High School Arlington Catholic/Yale
Sean Kay - Cross Country - Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Bio

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