2011 Men's Cross Country Roster
Biography
PERSONAL RECORDS:
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
2010: 2010 Pre-Season All-Conference selection… Finished the Charles Bowles Invitational 8k in 24:20.06 on Oct. 2… Was 7th overall at the WCC Cross Country Championships 8k with a time of 25:20 earning him First Team All-Conference Honors... Honorable Mention on the WCC All-Academic Team.
2009: Finished 8th (25:27) at the 2009 West Coast Conference Cross Country Championships in Belmont, Calif. (10/31/09)...132nd at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind. (10/17/09)...45th (24:44.98) at the Bill Dellinger Invitational in Springfield, Ore. (10/2/09).
2008: Redshirt Season. Competed unattached to a 27th-place finish at Charles Bowles Invitational (25:42.24, 8k) at Salem, Ore. (10/04/08).
MARSHFIELD HS: Four-time letterwinner in track & field and four-time letterwinner in cross-country under coach Doug Landrum, helping team to win district championships in his junior year and the state championships as a senior … all-state selection in cross-country in his sophomore and junior seasons … all-state selection in track & field as a junior and senior … selected as first-team all-Midwestern league in both track & field and cross-country as a sophomore, junior and senior … individually he was state champion and district champion in cross-country as a junior … district champion in track & field for the 1500m and 3000m events in both his junior and senior seasons … placed second at the state championship 3000m event as a junior and senior, second in the 1500m event as a senior and fifth as a junior … personal best of 15:29 in 5k set when a junior … 8:41 in 3k set as a senior … 3:55 in 1500m set as a senior …2007 Northwest Cross-country Classic Champion, 2007 Brooks Cross-country Invitational Champion, Prefontaine Coast Invite 3,000m Champion and record holder (8:51) … team rookie of the year as a freshman … team MVP in cross-country three straight years as a sophomore, junior and senior … won school’s outstanding freshman, sophomore and junior award … awarded the Prefontaine Memorial Award as a senior.
PERSONAL: Born May 6, 1990 in Coos Bay, Ore. … parents are Scott and Ellen Bassett ... sister is Allison… mother Ellen played volleyball and basketball for Southwestern Oregon Community College … major is nursing... came to UP because "I like the size of the school, and I like the running program and what it represents."
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