Rupp Named GoDucks.com Student-Athlete of the Week
Oregon junior Galen Rupp has been named GoDucks.com Student Athlete of the Week for the week of April 15th to April 21st for his performance in the Oregon Invitational.
Last weekend in the Oregon Invitational, Rupp charged from behind to win the 5,000m by .05 seconds (13:30.49) at the finish line over in Wisconsin senior and three-time NCAA champion Chris Solinsky (second, 13:30.54). Rupp’s time was a 29.78-second season best and 7.42-second personal best that rewrote his prior PR (13:37.91) from his post-prep summer European jaunt in 2004. That time also moved Rupp to sixth all-time for UO ? his first appearance in the Duck top-10 after a prior collegiate outdoor best of 13:44.72 from a meet in Van Heusden, Belgium in 2005. Rupp’s time was the fastest by a Duck since 1982 when Bill McChesney Jr. (13:14.80) and Jim Hill (13:30.52) ran times that still rank them first and sixth in school history. Rupp’s clocking Friday met the Olympic Trials A standard (13:33.00), and moved him to third among collegians in the nation this year. Overall, he is a six-time All-American in cross country (including fifth in ’06) and track (including second in the 10,000m in ’05), and a four-time scorer in the Pac-10 5,000m/10,000m.
Last weekend in the Oregon Invitational, Rupp charged from behind to win the 5,000m by .05 seconds (13:30.49) at the finish line over in Wisconsin senior and three-time NCAA champion Chris Solinsky (second, 13:30.54). Rupp’s time was a 29.78-second season best and 7.42-second personal best that rewrote his prior PR (13:37.91) from his post-prep summer European jaunt in 2004. That time also moved Rupp to sixth all-time for UO ? his first appearance in the Duck top-10 after a prior collegiate outdoor best of 13:44.72 from a meet in Van Heusden, Belgium in 2005. Rupp’s time was the fastest by a Duck since 1982 when Bill McChesney Jr. (13:14.80) and Jim Hill (13:30.52) ran times that still rank them first and sixth in school history. Rupp’s clocking Friday met the Olympic Trials A standard (13:33.00), and moved him to third among collegians in the nation this year. Overall, he is a six-time All-American in cross country (including fifth in ’06) and track (including second in the 10,000m in ’05), and a four-time scorer in the Pac-10 5,000m/10,000m.
