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2021-22 Men's Track & Field Roster

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Christian Groff

  • Events Mid-Distance
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Lancaster, Pa.
  • Highschool Hempfield

Biography

CAREER RESULTS

CAREER HONORS
• America East Commissioner's Honor Roll (2022)

SENIOR OUTDOOR SEASON (2022): Recorded a 15th-place finish in the 1500m at the UMass Lowell Invite (Mar. 26) ... Was seventh in the 1500m at the UNH Outdoor Opener (Apr. 2) ... Logged a time of 4:04.24 for fourth-place at the UMass Outdoor Invite (Apr. 16) ... Ran a personal-best 800m mark of 1:56.70 for 13th at the George Davis Invite (Apr. 23) ... Competed in the 800m and 4x800m at the America East Championships (May 7 & 8).

SENIOR INDOOR SEASON (2022): Opened the season with a mile time of 4:29.66 for third-place at the Dartmouth Indoor Season Opener (Dec. 11) ... Was second in the 800m with a time of 2:00.99 and ran a leg on the winning 4x400m relay team at the Middlebury Winter Classic (Jan. 15) ... Finished eighth in the mile and ran on the runner-up 4x400m relay team at the Middlebury Invite (Jan. 29) ... Competed in the 800m at the Fastrack National Invite (Feb. 11) ... Won the 1000m at the UVM-UNH Dual Meet with a time of 2:33.76 (Feb. 13) ... Finished 15th in the 1000m at the America East Championships (Feb. 26).

JUNIOR OUTDOOR SEASON (2021): Opened the season with an 11th-place finish in the 5000m at UMass Lowell (Mar. 26) ... Finished fifth in the 5000m at the UVM Quad Meet (Apr. 10) ... Was 13th in the 800m at the UNH Pre-Conference with a time of 1:58.74 (Apr. 24) ... Competed in the 1500m at the America East Championships (May 2).

SOPHOMORE INDOOR SEASON (2020): Opened the season with a 13th-place finish in the 3000m run at Dartmouth (Dec. 14) ... Finished 20th in the mile at the Dartmouth Relays (Jan. 10) ... Took eighth in the 3000m run with a time of 8:55.16 at the Middlebury Winterfell (Jan. 18) ... Recorded a runner-up finish in the mile (4:25.82) and was on the winning DMR team at UNH (Jan. 25) ... Ran a personal-best 3000m time of 8:49.90 for 24th at the NEICAAA Championships (Feb. 1) ... Was seventh in the 1000m with personal-best mark of 2:33.83 at the Dartmouth Invitational (Feb. 8) ... Ran a time of 4:27.95 in the mile at the Valentine Invite (Feb. 15) ... Finished 22nd in the mile at the America East Championships with a time of 4:29.93 (Feb. 22). 

FRESHMAN OUTDOOR SEASON (2019):
Opened the season with a 23rd-place finish in the 3000m run at the UMass Lowell Invitational (Mar. 30) ... Had a 17th-place finish in the 5000m run at the Dartmouth Invitational (Apr. 12) ... Was on the runner-up 4x400m relay team at the Jay Carisella Coaches Invitational (Apr. 20) ... Took sixth place in the 1500m run at UNH with a time of 4:01.73 (Apr. 27) ... Finished in 24th place in the 1500m run at the New England Championships (May 11).

FRESHMAN INDOOR SEASON (2019): Made his debut with an eighth-place finish in the 3000m run at Dartmouth (Dec. 8) ... Took fourth in the 1000m run and was on the runner-up 4x800m relay team at the Middlebury Winterfell (Jan. 19) ... Finished fifth in the 800m run at UNH (Jan. 26) ... Was 11th in the mile at the Villanova Invite with a time of 4:24.57 (Feb. 2) ... Ran the mile in 4:23.31 at the Valentine Invite (Feb. 8) ... Finished 23rd in the mile with a time of 4:19.18 at the America East Championships (Feb. 23).

BEFORE VERMONT: Competed in Track & Field and Cross Country for all four years at Hempfield High School ... Captain of both teams senior year ... 3x District 3 Lancaster Lebanon League Team Champions in Cross Country ... Holds high school record of 15:40 in 5k 

PERSONAL: Son of Jeffrey and Martha Groff ... Jeffrey ran Track & Field and Cross Country at the University of Virginia ... Has three brothers, Benjamin, Matthew, and Michael ... Majoring in Business Administration

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19First Year

    Mid-Distance
  • 2019-20Sophomore

  • 2020-21Junior

  • 2021-22Senior