2021 Men's Cross Country Roster
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Seth Slavin
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Brodheadsville, Pa.
- High School:
- Pleasant Valley
- Major:
- Electrical Engineering
Bio
2021 CROSS COUNTRY: Finished tenth overall at the Lehigh Invitational (18:44.6)... Placed second overall at the Lafayette Dual (25:40.29)... Finished 289th at Paul Short (26:08.6)... Placed second for Lehigh and 32nd overall at the Princeton Invitational (25:17.7)... Finished first for the Mountain Hawks and 20th overall at the Patriot League Cross Country Championships (25:50.0)... Finished 64th at the NCAA Regional (32:26.5).
2020 CROSS COUNTRY: DID NOT COMPETE
2019 CROSS COUNTRY: Academic All-Patriot League Team... Academic Honor Roll... Second Team All-Patriot League... Finished second overall at the Lehigh Invitational (18:42.18)... Paced the Mountain Hawks at the Paul Short Run and finished 74th overall (24:24.60)... First Lehigh finisher and came in 23rd at the Penn State National Open... First Lehigh runner to cross the line and finished 14th overall at the Patriot League Championships (25:59.60)... Finished 85th overall at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional (32:22.90).
2018 CROSS COUNTRY: Finished 136th overall at the NCAA Regionals in the 10K, earning a personal record (34:24.2)… Finished 11th on the team and 46th overall at the Patriot League Championship Meet (27:27.8)… Finished second on the team and sixth overall at the Bucknell Tune Up in the 4K, earning a personal record (12:28.00)… Finished ninth on the team and 135th overall at the Princeton Invitational (26:03.7)… Finished second on the team and 80th overall at the Paul Short Run Gold Race, earning a personal record in the 8K (25:31)… Finished third on the team and 98th overall at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown (25:45)… Finished seventh on the team and seventh overall at the Lehigh-Lafayette Dual Meet (27:00.42)… Named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, earning a 4.0 GPA in the fall 2018 semester.
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2017 CROSS COUNTRY: Finished 44th overall at the Patriot League Championships in 25:53.8…Led the Mountain Hawks with a 92nd place finish at the Princeton Invitational (25:31.6)…Ran in the Gold Race at the 44th annual Paul Short Run (25:46.3)…Competed at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown (26:09.6)…Placed fourth overall and fourth on the team at the Lehigh-Lafayette dual meet (26:14.50)…Made his collegiate debut by finishing 13th overall, fifth on the team at the 6K Lehigh Invitational (19:05.69)…Named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
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BEFORE LEHIGH: Cross Country: Four-time Pennsylvania state qualifier…2016 Pennsylvania state medalist (16th); co-holds the school record for highest state finish in school history…School record holder for fastest cross country time (15:45)…2016 District 11 champion…Two time conference champion, three-time district medalist…Footlocker Northeast Regional freshman/sophomore 2014 race champion, 2015 Footlocker Northeast Regional medalist (23rd)…Two-time Times News Male Cross Country Runner of the Year…Coordinated Health Athlete of the Year…Served as team captain for two years.
Indoor Track: Two-time state medalist in the 3000m (2016: 6th, 8:48; 2017: 5th, 8:44)…School record holder in the 1600m, 1 mile, 3000m, 3200m, and 2 mile.
Outdoor Track: Two-time district champion (2015: 4x800m; 2017: 3200m run)…Two-time district runner up (2016: 3200m, 2017: 4x800m)…Four time conference champion (2014: 3200m; 2015: 4x800m; 2017: 4x800m, 3200m)…School record holder in the 1600m (4:23) and 3200m (9:16)…Four-time state qualifier (2015: 4x800m; 2016: 3200m; 2017: 4x800m, 3200m)…2017 Penn Relays qualifier (3000m)…Served as team captain for two years.
High School Academic Accomplishments: Salutatorian at Pleasant Valley High School…Received academic awards for the highest grades in AP English Language, AP English Literature, Honors Chemistry, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP Calculus AB/BC, Computer Aided Drawing, Principal’s Award for Outstanding Studiousness, Principal’s Award for Outstanding Athleticism, Sons of the American Revolution Good Citizenship bronze medal winner, National Honor Society scholarship national semifinalist (1 of 21 for PA and 1 of 375 in the nation), AMC (American Mathematics Competition) two time school champion, National AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction, AP Scholar with Honor.
High School Extracurricular Accomplishments: National Honor Society, German National Honor Society, History National Honor Society, National Mathematics Honor Society…Nominated to the conference’s SACC (Student Athlete Character Council)…Co-founded the Math Club and Math Honor Society (Mu Alpha Theta) and served as Vice President of both…Two-year president of the science club, four-time regional science Olympiad medalist (4th: optics, 3rd: it's about time, 2nd: electric vehicle, 1st: electrical vehicle)…PJAS (Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science) state qualifier for original research in Fibonacci - related sequences…Also volunteered at West End Regional Park Trail Maintenance, math tutoring, PVYA youth track mentor, PVYA REC camp mentor, the Special Olympics and started a volunteering project with his cross country team building up a local park.
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PERSONAL: Son of Tracey and Thomas Slavin.
GETTING TO KNOW SETH
Why did you chose Lehigh?: Because it's the best school on Earth! Also has awesome engineering, amazing coaches, unparalleled brothers in the team, a sense of a true experience of life, and some of the most helpful people ever.
What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh: Energetic people
Thoughts on Lehigh coaching staff: When looking for schools that I felt comfortable at the coach was always so important. Coach Etters showed so much enthusiasm and liked how I wanted to use running to develop as a person and that is extremely important to me. Could not ask for a better guy to spend the next four years with.
Major and Why: Electrical engineering because I love robotics and think it is going to certainly be the future. I will be minoring in computer science to be able to work on artificial intelligence programs to one day take over the world with a robotic army.
Favorite place on campus: Engineering design building because of all of the 3D printers in there
Favorite food: Mom’s lasagna
Favorite color: Green
Favorite Movie: Spaceballs
Favorite TV show: The Big Bang Theory
Favorite Website: www.sparkfun.com
Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Samantha Ponder (Battlebots, yes it is a sport)
Favorite place to study: In my room on my whiteboards
Favorite thing to do on a rainy day: Math or arduino prototyping
Hobbies: 3D printing, arduino building, balsa wood tower building, hiking, working out, kayaking, thinking about life
Most admired person and why: High school cross country coach because he is the kindest person in the world and is still able to be an extremely fierce competitor with awesome character
Biggest Sport Accomplishment: Penn Relays qualification Â
Magazine cover I'd like to be on: Fibonacci Quarterly
Place I’d like to visit: Mars Â
Talent I’d most like to have: Either the ability to learn anything in a day or to kick in the last 200 meters
Dream job: NASA engineer working on AI robots to explore outer space
One unique thing no one knows about me: I got a concussion freshman year from running into a dumpster lid
If I didn't run cross country I would play: Competitive Battlebots
If I had $1 billion, I would: Make a startup company to invest in space exploration for the sake of the journey over the monetary desires of those currently in action.
2020 CROSS COUNTRY: DID NOT COMPETE
2019 CROSS COUNTRY: Academic All-Patriot League Team... Academic Honor Roll... Second Team All-Patriot League... Finished second overall at the Lehigh Invitational (18:42.18)... Paced the Mountain Hawks at the Paul Short Run and finished 74th overall (24:24.60)... First Lehigh finisher and came in 23rd at the Penn State National Open... First Lehigh runner to cross the line and finished 14th overall at the Patriot League Championships (25:59.60)... Finished 85th overall at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional (32:22.90).
2018 CROSS COUNTRY: Finished 136th overall at the NCAA Regionals in the 10K, earning a personal record (34:24.2)… Finished 11th on the team and 46th overall at the Patriot League Championship Meet (27:27.8)… Finished second on the team and sixth overall at the Bucknell Tune Up in the 4K, earning a personal record (12:28.00)… Finished ninth on the team and 135th overall at the Princeton Invitational (26:03.7)… Finished second on the team and 80th overall at the Paul Short Run Gold Race, earning a personal record in the 8K (25:31)… Finished third on the team and 98th overall at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown (25:45)… Finished seventh on the team and seventh overall at the Lehigh-Lafayette Dual Meet (27:00.42)… Named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, earning a 4.0 GPA in the fall 2018 semester.
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2017 CROSS COUNTRY: Finished 44th overall at the Patriot League Championships in 25:53.8…Led the Mountain Hawks with a 92nd place finish at the Princeton Invitational (25:31.6)…Ran in the Gold Race at the 44th annual Paul Short Run (25:46.3)…Competed at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown (26:09.6)…Placed fourth overall and fourth on the team at the Lehigh-Lafayette dual meet (26:14.50)…Made his collegiate debut by finishing 13th overall, fifth on the team at the 6K Lehigh Invitational (19:05.69)…Named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
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BEFORE LEHIGH: Cross Country: Four-time Pennsylvania state qualifier…2016 Pennsylvania state medalist (16th); co-holds the school record for highest state finish in school history…School record holder for fastest cross country time (15:45)…2016 District 11 champion…Two time conference champion, three-time district medalist…Footlocker Northeast Regional freshman/sophomore 2014 race champion, 2015 Footlocker Northeast Regional medalist (23rd)…Two-time Times News Male Cross Country Runner of the Year…Coordinated Health Athlete of the Year…Served as team captain for two years.
Indoor Track: Two-time state medalist in the 3000m (2016: 6th, 8:48; 2017: 5th, 8:44)…School record holder in the 1600m, 1 mile, 3000m, 3200m, and 2 mile.
Outdoor Track: Two-time district champion (2015: 4x800m; 2017: 3200m run)…Two-time district runner up (2016: 3200m, 2017: 4x800m)…Four time conference champion (2014: 3200m; 2015: 4x800m; 2017: 4x800m, 3200m)…School record holder in the 1600m (4:23) and 3200m (9:16)…Four-time state qualifier (2015: 4x800m; 2016: 3200m; 2017: 4x800m, 3200m)…2017 Penn Relays qualifier (3000m)…Served as team captain for two years.
High School Academic Accomplishments: Salutatorian at Pleasant Valley High School…Received academic awards for the highest grades in AP English Language, AP English Literature, Honors Chemistry, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP Calculus AB/BC, Computer Aided Drawing, Principal’s Award for Outstanding Studiousness, Principal’s Award for Outstanding Athleticism, Sons of the American Revolution Good Citizenship bronze medal winner, National Honor Society scholarship national semifinalist (1 of 21 for PA and 1 of 375 in the nation), AMC (American Mathematics Competition) two time school champion, National AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction, AP Scholar with Honor.
High School Extracurricular Accomplishments: National Honor Society, German National Honor Society, History National Honor Society, National Mathematics Honor Society…Nominated to the conference’s SACC (Student Athlete Character Council)…Co-founded the Math Club and Math Honor Society (Mu Alpha Theta) and served as Vice President of both…Two-year president of the science club, four-time regional science Olympiad medalist (4th: optics, 3rd: it's about time, 2nd: electric vehicle, 1st: electrical vehicle)…PJAS (Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science) state qualifier for original research in Fibonacci - related sequences…Also volunteered at West End Regional Park Trail Maintenance, math tutoring, PVYA youth track mentor, PVYA REC camp mentor, the Special Olympics and started a volunteering project with his cross country team building up a local park.
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PERSONAL: Son of Tracey and Thomas Slavin.
GETTING TO KNOW SETH
Why did you chose Lehigh?: Because it's the best school on Earth! Also has awesome engineering, amazing coaches, unparalleled brothers in the team, a sense of a true experience of life, and some of the most helpful people ever.
What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh: Energetic people
Thoughts on Lehigh coaching staff: When looking for schools that I felt comfortable at the coach was always so important. Coach Etters showed so much enthusiasm and liked how I wanted to use running to develop as a person and that is extremely important to me. Could not ask for a better guy to spend the next four years with.
Major and Why: Electrical engineering because I love robotics and think it is going to certainly be the future. I will be minoring in computer science to be able to work on artificial intelligence programs to one day take over the world with a robotic army.
Favorite place on campus: Engineering design building because of all of the 3D printers in there
Favorite food: Mom’s lasagna
Favorite color: Green
Favorite Movie: Spaceballs
Favorite TV show: The Big Bang Theory
Favorite Website: www.sparkfun.com
Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Samantha Ponder (Battlebots, yes it is a sport)
Favorite place to study: In my room on my whiteboards
Favorite thing to do on a rainy day: Math or arduino prototyping
Hobbies: 3D printing, arduino building, balsa wood tower building, hiking, working out, kayaking, thinking about life
Most admired person and why: High school cross country coach because he is the kindest person in the world and is still able to be an extremely fierce competitor with awesome character
Biggest Sport Accomplishment: Penn Relays qualification Â
Magazine cover I'd like to be on: Fibonacci Quarterly
Place I’d like to visit: Mars Â
Talent I’d most like to have: Either the ability to learn anything in a day or to kick in the last 200 meters
Dream job: NASA engineer working on AI robots to explore outer space
One unique thing no one knows about me: I got a concussion freshman year from running into a dumpster lid
If I didn't run cross country I would play: Competitive Battlebots
If I had $1 billion, I would: Make a startup company to invest in space exploration for the sake of the journey over the monetary desires of those currently in action.
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