| Alex Plasencia |
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Senior
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| Hometown:
Miami, Fla.
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| High School:
Ransom Everglades
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| Height:
6-0
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| Sports:
CC/Track
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Junior Year (2007-08): Recorded a personal best time of 26:05.05 at the 2007 SoCon Cross Country Championship...qualified for the NCAA Regionals, where he ran the 10K with a personal best time of 32:50.45...competed in the indoor 3000m, earning a third place finish at the Tiger Invite...recorded a team-best time of 15:11.81 in the indoor 5000m run at the Southern Conference Indoor Championships...earned five top-ten finishes in the outdoor 5000m run, including three first-place finishes...won the Chabot Relays with a personal record of 14:54, the Emory Invite with a time of 15:12.48, and the CSU Invite with a time of 15:25.88...won the 10,000m event at the Emory Asics Invite with a personal record of 32:26.65.
Sophomore Year (2006-07): Competed in the 1,500m, 3,000m, 5,000m and 10,000m events in his first year with the cross country and track & field teams...finished in fifth place in the 1,500m run at the 2007 SoCon Outdoor Track Championships with a time of 4:05.41...posted a second-place finish in the 3,000m run at the 2007 Winthrop Invitational...also placed second in the 5,000m run at the 2007 Furman Invitational...as a cross country athlete, posted his best time of the 2006 season at the SoCon Cross Country Championships, with a mark of 26:35.55.
High School: Ran track and cross country at Ransom Everglades High School, captaining the team as a junior and senior...led team to fourth-place finish at the state championship during his junior and senior seasons...team won three state, regional and district titles...regional and district champion as a junior and senior...district champion as a senior in the 3,200m run, finishing fifth in the state in the same event...named to the FACA All-State team as a sophomore, junior and senior...first-team All-Dade County as a junior and senior...cross country team MVP as a sophomore, junior, and senior.
Personal: Alex Joseph Plasencia was born August 20, 1986 in Miami, Fla....son of Ricardo and Maria Plasencia...majoring in history and Spanish.
Alex Plasencia - Career Results
