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2020 Men's Track & Field Roster

Samuel Klein

  • Position Distance
  • Ht./Wt. 5-9 / 140
  • Class Junior
  • Major Journalism and Environmental Studies (College of Arts and Science)
  • Hometown Brookline, MA
  • High School Brookline

Biography

2020
  • UAA Fall, Winter and Spring Sport All-Academic
  • IAAC Spring Honor Roll
  • Set personal-bests in the 6k (20:42.8) at the Vassar Ron Stonitsch Invitational (9/7) and in the 8k (25:51.3) at the Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle (10/19)
  • Finished 12th in the 3,000m at the Armory Last Chance Meet with a career-best time of 8:59.11 (2/21)
 
2019
  • UAA Fall, Winter and Spring Sport All-Academic
  • IAAC Fall Honor Roll
  • Placed sixth in the mile (4:34.00) at the Ramapo Season Opener (1/11) and in the 3,000m (9:11.64) at the TCNJ Invitational (4/5-6)
  • Finished second in the 4x800m (8:29.87) at the Princeton Invitational (2/16)
  • Placed ninth in the 5,000m at the Coach Pollard Invitational (4/12-13) with a time of 15:54.54
 
2018
  • Named to the IAAC Fall and Spring Honor Rolls
  • Finished eighth in the 3,000m (9:08.75) at the Princeton Invitational (2/17)
  • Took ninth in the 4K (13:16.2) at the Vassar Cross Country Opener (9/1)
 
Personal
  • Volunteered with NGO Mano a Mano, which helps fight rural poverty in Bolivia
  • Enjoys photography, traveling, and drinking coffee
  • Aspires to be a photojournalist and to run in the Boston Marathon

Klein on NYU
  • Decided to attend NYU because he “wanted to be in a campus-less school in the middle of the biggest American city”

Historical Player Information

  • 2018Freshman

    Distance
    5'9" 140 lbs
  • 2019Sophomore

    Distance
    5'9" 140 lbs
  • 2020Junior

    Distance
    5'9" 140 lbs