2019 Men's Cross Country Roster

JJ Teal

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 165
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Media, Pa.
  • Highschool Penncrest

Biography

TFRRS Profile

AWARDS & HONORS

2017 // SOPHOMORE

- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
- Landmark Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll.

2016 // FRESHMAN
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
 
2019 // SENIOR

2018 // JUNIOR

- Ran in five meets.
- Season-best finish of 13th at the Blue Jay Alumni Challenge.
- Competed at the Landmark Conference Championships for a second straight season.

2017 // SOPHOMORE
- Ran in five meets.
- Placed a season-best 20th at the Blue Jay Alumni Challenge.
- Set a new 8k PR (30:02.0) at the Rochester Yellowjacket Invitational on October 14.
- Competed for the Jays at the Landmark Conference Championships for the first time.
- Landmark Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll.

2016 // FRESHMAN
- Ran in four meets.
- Made his collegiate debut on Sept. 2 at the Galen Piper Cross Country Challenge.
- Season-best finish of 18th at the Blue Jay Alumni Challenge.
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.

HIGH SCHOOL
- Competed for George Munro in track & field for four years at Penncrest High School in Media, Pa.
- Ranks as second-fastest freshman in 400 at 53.1.
- Team went undefeated his freshman  year.
- Split a 50.3 for his 4x400m team at Penn Relays as a sophomore in 2014.
- Ran split PRs of 48.6 and 1:56 at the outdoor state meet as a junior.
- Junior year, team went unbeaten.
- Second at indoor states in the 4x800m, fifth for 4x400m.
- Seventh at outdoor state meet in 4x800m, sixth for 4x400m.
- District qualifier as a senior in the 400, 4x400m and 4x800m.
- First chair violinist in orchestra, participated in Physics Olympics, volunteer service for Nativity BVM.

PERSONAL
- Son of Richard and Valerie Teal.
- Youngest sibling of three; older brother, Scott, and older sister, Kathy.
- Family member Joseph LeMay ran distance for Princeton and competed professionally; Cole Teal plays basketball for Williams College.
- Double major in finance and economics.

Historical Player Information

  • 2016Freshman

    0 lbs
  • 2017Sophomore

    6'2" 165 lbs
  • 2018Junior

    6'2" 165 lbs
  • 2019Senior

    6'1" 165 lbs