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2009-10 Men's Track and Field Roster

Josh Morgan

  • Class Senior
  • Position Distance
  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 159
  • Hometown Asheville, N.C.
  • Highschool TC Roberson

Biography

Collegiate Bests:
Indoor 800m: 1:53.19 (2010)
Indoor 1000m: 2:27.47 (2008)
Indoor Mile: 4:14.05 (2010)
Indoor 3,000m: 8:36.12 (2010)
Outdoor 800m: 1:50.37 (2009)
Outdoor 1,500m: 3:46.13 (2010)
Outdoor 3,000m: 8:26.90 (2010)

Big South Championships:
2010 Indoor 800m (1:53.38)
2007 Outdoor 800m (1:51.23)

2009-10: During the cross country season, placed fourth at the Big South Preview on Sept. 19, ninth at the Blue Ridge Open on Oct. 16 and third at the Big South Championship on Oct. 31 ... During the indoor season, won the 800-meter (1:53.38), placed second in the mile (4:14.05) and ran on the runner-up distance medley relay at the Big South Championship ... Named 2010 Big South Scholar-Athlete of the Year for indoor track & field ... Ran a season-best 1:53.19 to place ninth in the 800-meter at the Virginia Tech Challenge on Feb. 20 ... Won the mile (4:14.95) and took second in the 800-meter (1:55.49) at the Gene Anderson UNC Invitational on Feb. 12 ... Placed second in the mile at the ETSU Noswinger Invitational ... Opened the indoor season with a seventh-place finish in the 3,000-meter in a career-best 8:36.12 at the Virginia Tech Invitational on Jan. 16 ... Opened the outdoor season with a runner-up finish in the 3,000-meter in a career-best 8:26.90 at the Wake Forest Open ... Took third in his heat of the 1,500-meter in 3:49.16 at the Stanford Invitational ... Fourth in the 800-meter (1:50.82) at the Duke Invitational ... Ran a career-best 3:46.13 to place eighth in a loaded 1,500-meter at the Joe Hilton Carolina Fast Times meet ... Took second in the 1,500-meter, fourth in the 800-meter and ran on the seventh-place 4x400 relay at the Big South Championship ... Won the 800-meter in 1:51.44 at the HPU VertKlasse Meeting ... Millis Scholar-Athlete.

2008-09: Placed 13th at the Big South Cross Country Championship ... Member of HPU record-setting relay teams in the indoor distance medley relay (10:07.20) and outdoor 4x800 relay (7:35.38) and distance medley relay (7:35.38) ... Indoors, took third in the 800-meter (1:54.51), sixth in the mile (4:16.96) and ran on the third-place DMR at the Big South Championship ... Placed third in the mile in 4:17.11 at the UNC Dick Taylor Classic ... Outdoors, won the 800-meter in 1:52.86 at the N.C. A&T Murray Neely Invitational ... At the Big South Championship, took second in the 800-meter (1:53.36) and third in the 1,500-meter (3:52.36) ... Ran a career-best 1:50.37 to place third in the 800-meter at HPU's Vertklasse Meeting ... Ran a personal-best 3:50.44 in the 1,500-meter at the UNC Elite Meet ... Placed ninth in the 800-meter (1:50.91) at the NCAA East Regional ... Millis Scholar-Athlete.

2007-08: Opened the cross country season placing fifth in the UNC Challenge ... Placed fourth at the Big South Preview and 16th at the Big South Cross Country Championship ... Began the indoor season with a fourth-place finish in the 1,000-meter in an HPU record 2:27.47 at the Virginia Tech Invitational ... Won the mile in 4:14.48 at the UNC Eddie & Jo Smith Classic .. At the Big South Championship, took fifth in both the 800-meter (1:56.46) and mile (4:14.36) and ran on the sixth-place 4x400 relay ... Ran on the HPU record-setting DMR that placed eighth in 10:00.07 and on the sprint medley relay (3:30.76) at the Penn Relays ... Ran a season-best 1:52.07 to place second in the 800-meter at the UNC Invitational ... Placed fourth in the 800-meter and ran on the sixth-place 4x400 relay at the Big South Championship ... Millis Scholar-Athlete.

2006-07: Took seventh at the Old North State Championship and 24th at the big South Cross Country Championship ... Made his indoor debut with a win in the mile at the UNC Fast Times meet ... In consecutive meets, placed second in the 800-meter at the UNC Invitational and took second in the mile at the UNC Classic ... Took third in the 800-meter and ran on the third-place distance medley relay at the Big South Indoor Championship ... At the Charlotte Invitational outdoors, took second in both the 800-meter (1:52.42) and 1,500-meter (3:54.99) ... Won the 800-meter in 1:51.23 at the Big South Outdoor Championship; named Big South Freshman of the Year in outdoor track & field ... Placed 20th in the 800-meter in 1:51.70 at the NCAA Regional ... Qualified for the USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championship in both the 800-meter and 1,500-meter ... Millis Scholar-Athlete.

Prep:
Attended TC Roberson High School where he was the 2006 North Carolina Indoor Champion in both the 1000-meter and the 1600-meter run... In outdoor track he was the North Carolina champion in the 800-meter, 1600-meter and 4x800-meter relay... helped team to both the 2004 and 2005 North Carolina State Cross Country championship and the 2005 3-A Track Championship.

Personal: Physical Education major... son of Bradley and Donna Morgan... has two brothers, Jason and Chris and one sister, Nicole... born Joshua Stephen Morgan on April 21, 1988.