Upcoming Event: Cross Country at Nuttycombe Invitational on October 17, 2025 at All Day
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All Day
Cross Country
at Nuttycombe Invitational
2007-08 Cross Country Roster
Chris Spooner
- Position:
- Distance
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 0
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Lewisburg, Pa.
- High School:
- Lewisburg Area
Junior: Second-fastest all-time Duke performer in the indoor mile, his 4:06.99 at Fayetteville, Ark., on Feb. 9 has only been topped by the 1972 U.S. Olympian at 1,500m, Bob Wheeler ... the next day ran 8:22.66 in the 3,000m to qualify for the IC4A meet ... two weeks later ran 8:19.76 at the ACC Championships to place fourth overall ... ran lead-off on the Duke DMR which captured the Terrier Classic in January ... earned All-East honors on the 4X800m relay at the IC4A Indoor Championships ... outdoors made both the ACC and IC4A finals in the 1,500m, running 3:47.93 in the IC4A prelims, the second best time of his career ... in cross country he was Duke’s top finisher at the NCAA Southeast Regional in November ...
Sophomore: All-ACC in cross country and was Duke’s top finisher at the ACC Championships ... No. 2 man for Duke on the team that won the IC4A Championship in New York, earning All-East honors in that race ... indoors had Duke’s fastest mile time with a 4:08.69 at the Tyson meet in Fayetteville, Ark. ... had the team’s top 3,000m clocking with a 8:17.60 at the Terrier Classic in Boston ... that performance ranks third all-time at Duke in the event ... while qualifying for the IC4As in both the mile and 3,000m, ran two solid relay legs in Boston, first splitting 1:52.3 for 800m on the distance medley in the trial round, and then anchoring the DMR in the final, where Duke placed seventh to earn All-East honors ... outdoors was All-East with a seventh-place finish in the 1,500m, but his best race came in winning the Duke Invitational over a quality field in a personal-best time of 3:46.33 ... that time qualified him for the NCAA East regional 1,500m for a second consecutive year ... was the anchor leg of the Duke sprint medley relay at the Penn Relays which ran 3:28.74, the fourth-best clocking in school history ...
Freshman: NCAA Regional qualifier in the 1,500m with a best of 3:47.54 when he placed third at the Duke Invitational ... ran a 3:48.44 at the Mt. Sac Relays in Walnut, Calif. ... at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, ran 2:59.2 for the lead-off 1,200m leg on the DMR that ran 9:43.93, the fifth-best all-time performance outdoors for Duke ... came back the next day to run the fastest Blue Devil split on the 4X800m relay, taking the baton in 10th and handing off in third while splitting 1:51.5 ... ran the same two legs indoors on school-record relays for Duke ... on March 4, split 2:59 for 1,200m en route to a school-record and NCAA provisional-qualifying time of 9:41.11 for the DMR on the Notre Dame track ... less than 48 hours later in Boston, he ran a 1:52.3 third leg on the Duke 4X800m relay that went on to finish second in the IC4A and claim the Duke indoor school record in 7:29.15 ... earlier in the year in Boston, anchored the winning DMR and 4X800m relay for Duke at the Terrier Classic, splitting 4:06.0 on his anchor 1600m leg in the DMR ... also anchored the second-place 4X800m relay for Duke at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden and ran lead-off on the third-place Duke DMR at the Armory Collegiate in New York ... 4:12.09 mile time at the ACC Championships placed sixth and was the top open mile clocking for Duke in 2005 ... began his Duke career as a harrier and during the 2004 cross country season ran third man at both the NCAA Pre-nationals meet, where he clocked a PB 24:56.8 for 8K, and at the ACC’s, where he placed 20th overall and second amongst the conference’s freshmen ... ran fourth for Duke at the NCAA SE Regional, where he clocked a personal best 31:11.5 for 10K ...
Prep: Tremendous range from 800m (1:51 relay, 1:52 open) to the two-mile (8:56.56) ... won the prestigious Penn Relays mile in 4:09.9 with a 58.9 final lap ... outstanding anchor for the nationally-ranked Lewisburg 4x800m relay ... won the Pennsylvania state cross country title as a junior and won state track titles at 800m, 1,600m and 3,200m.
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