Jason Petty

Jason Petty

Player Profile

Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Albuquerque, N.M.

High School:
St. Pius X HS

Height:
5-7

Event:
Distance

Birthdate:
07/06/1988

Experience:
2L

NEW MEXICO:

Solid young runner who could factor in the MWC scoring race in the long distance events in the near future...has 3 years of indoor and outdoor eligibility remaining on the track...3-time Academic All-MWC honoree with a 3.78 GPA (Mechanical Engineering major)...

2008: (cross country) Scored twice in 4 meet appearances...top finish of 22nd (team's No. 5) in the season-opening Lobo Invitational...44th (team's No. 9) at the MWC Championships...Academic All-MWC...

2007-08: (outdoor) Raced 5 times in his debut outdoor season...season-best 5,000m time of 15:37.54 in Azusa Pacific (7th)... (indoor) Redshirt season...(cross country) Redshirt season...

2006-07: (outdoor) Redshirt season... (indoor) Raced 9 times, primarily in the 3,000 and 5,000...5 top-5 finishes, including his first collegiate victory in the 3K at the TCR Race Productions Invite in Albuquerque...season-best times of 8:47.16 (16th) in the 3K and 15:14.81 (11th) in the 5K at the MWC Championships in Albuquerque...Academic All-MWC and MWC Scholar-Athlete Award winner...(cross country) Was the only Lobo to run in all six meets, scoring in every race...led a split squad at the NMSU Kachina Classic (7th overall) and was 29th at the Lobo Invite...season-best 8K time of 25:40 at Stanford...was 33rd (26:17.6) at the MWC Championships and 73rd (33:34.7) in his first 10K at the NCAA Mountain Regional Championships in Albuquerque...Academic All-MWC honoree...

HIGH SCHOOL:

A 2006 graduate of Albuquerque St. Pius X High School...four-year letterman in track for coach Mike Martindale and a three-year letterwinner in cross country for coach Jeff Turcotte...all-state cross country runner as a senior and two-time team MVP...finished his career ranked on the school's top-10 lists for the 800m (1:59.87), 1,600m (4:26.23), 3,200m (9:50.96) and cross country (5K, 5:30.64)...participated in the cross country Border-War and Great Southwest Track & field Classic (3,200m) last year...National Honor Society member...also an all-state honoree in choir and the school homecoming king as a senior...

PERSONAL:

Born in Albuquerque, N.M....full name is Jason Akua Makana Petty...son of Stephen and Priscilla Petty...dad was a wrestler at Michigan (1972-76)...has a a younger brother, Joshua...major is Mechanical Engineering.
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