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2016 Men's Cross Country

J.D. Kieffer

J.D. Kieffer

  • Height:
    6-1
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Glendale, Calif.
  • Highschool:
    St. Francis

Summary

Biography

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his second season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Cross Country team...Also competes for the Track and Field program in the spring.

2016: All-West RegionlllSecond Team All-SCIAC...Placed 32nd at the NCAA West Regionals with a time of 27:10.5...Finished 13th overall at the SCIAC Championships with a time of 26:44.50.

2015: Finished in 24th place at SCIAC Championships with a time of 27:04.54. 

2014: SCIAC All-Academic team.

High School: Attended St. Francis High School in La Canada, where he was a member of the cross country and track teams…Was a Cross Country All-Mission League second team selection…Served as team captain and earned team MVP honors…Had a top 5K time of 15:59 and a top three-mile time of 15:54…Class valedictorian…Academic Hall of Fame all four years…Member of Spanish Honors Society and an International AP Scholar.

Personal: Attends Pomona College, where he majors in mathematical economics…Has one younger brother…Lists running, reading and learning foreign languages as his hobbies…Kobe Bryant, Derrick Rose and Steve Prefontaine are his favorite athletes…Lists The Stand by Stephen King as his favorite book and Gladiator and Lord of the Rings as his favorite movies…Barack Obama and Theodore Roosevelt are the public figures he most admires…Chose Pomona “because it felt like home away from home as soon as I stepped on campus.”

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Historical Player Information

  • 2013Freshman

    6'1"
  • 2014Sophomore

    6'1"
  • 2015Junior

    6'1"
  • 2016Senior

    6'1"