GALEN RUPP
Events: Middle Distance/Distance
Height: 5-11
Weight: 138
PRs: 800m - 1:49.87i (2009) 1,500m - 3:44.39 (2005); Mile - 3:57.86i (2009); 3,000m - 7:44.69i (2009); 5,000m - 13:18.12iAR (2009); 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 '09
Coach: Alberto Salazar 

Career Highlights: 2009 USA 10,000m champion; 2009 NCAA Outdoor 5,000m and 10,000m champion; 2009 NCAA Indoor 3,000m, 5,000m and DMW champion; 2008 Olympic Trials 10,000m runner-up; U.S. Indoor 5,000m record holder; 2007 USA Outdoor 10,000m runner-up; 2005 USA Junior XC champion; U.S. Junior 3,000m, 5,000m & 10,000m record holder; 2007 NCAA 10,000m runner-up; 2008 NCAA Cross Country Champion

Rupp made his final race in a University of Oregon singlet count in a big way as he won the USA Outdoor 10,000m title in front of an adoring crowd at his home track - fabled Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Rupp finished eighth in the 10,000m at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin in 27:37.99, which was his season’s best performance and the third-best by an American that year. Also in 2009 Rupp set the American indoor 5,000m record of 13:18.12 at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. 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 13^th as the fastest non-African in the race. Rupp’s time in Beijing of 27:36.99 was the second-fastest by an American in 2008. In 2009, Rupp led the Oregon men to the their first indoor national team title and became the first person in NCAA history to win the 5,000 meters, 3,000m and the distance medley relay in the same championship. Rupp started with a win in the 5,000m in 13 minutes 41.45 seconds. Less than 90 minutes later, he anchored the DMR to victory, splitting 3:57.07 over the final 1,600m to cross the line in 9:29.59. The following day Rupp cruised to a title in the 3,000m, winning in 7:48.94, more than 5 seconds ahead of the field. 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 11^th 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 Gerry Lindgren’s 40-year old U.S. high school record for 5,000 meters by running 13:37.91 for the distance.  That performance also bettered the U.S. Junior record of 13:38.59 set by Franklin Sanchez in 2001. 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.

9/24/09