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- Year:
- Sr.
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- Hometown:
- Cedarburg, Wis.
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- High School:
- Cedarburg
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- Event:
- Mid-Distance
Bio
2016: Did not compete.
2015: Competed in eight meets including the WIAC Conference Championship with a season best time of 26:22... Competed in Regional Championship and National Championship.
2014: Competed in six meets with a season best time of 27:35.
2013: Competed in six meets with a season best time of 28:23.
Career Stats: TFRRS Profile
High School: Eagle scout, track and field state qualifier, 2 year track and cross country captain. Ran a personal best of 16:43 for 5,000m and 1:58.19 in the 800m.
Major at UW-Platteville: Industrial Engineering
What is your favorite thing about UW-Platteville? I enjoy the engineering program as well as the location and scenery that comes with the campus.
Why did you choose UW-Platteville? I chose Platteville because the engineering program was very popular and I liked the personalities of the runners on the cross country team.
News mentions
Four Pioneers earned All-Region honors at the NCAA Midwest Regional meet. Zach Lee and Walker Rynes finished 4th and 6th place in the 8,000m race. Their places will assure them an individual qualifying spot to the NCAA National meet next weekend. Johanna Meister and Katie Wardinski finished 11th and 15th in the 6,000m race to earn All-Region honors. They are both likely individual qualifiers to next week’s NCAA National meet.
Four Pioneers earned All-Conference honors as both teams ended the day with fourth place finishes at the WIAC Championships. The men’s 8,000m and women’s 6,000m championship races were hosted by UW-Whitewater were 92 men and 88 women competed.
The UW-Platteville cross country teams competed at the Principia Cowbell Classic which served as this year’s pre-nationals meet. The women exceeded expectations finishing 15th out of 36 teams with 406 points beating No. 15 nationally ranked Calvin by 12 points. The Pioneers also finished ahead of No. 32 ranked UW-Stevens Point. The pointers finished 18th with 520 points.
The UW-Platteville men headed into the Blugold Invitational with a No. 9 regional ranking and nationally unranked. Ready to prove themselves, the Pioneer men had an agreeseive start to the race before settling in. They trailed No. 17 nationally ranked St. Olaf at the 5,000m mark. During the final two miles of the race the Pioneers would claw their way ahead of St. Olaf to finish fourth in the 13-team invitational. The Pioneers’ 124 points edged out St. Olaf’s 140 points. Finishing behind St. Olaf was No. 7 regionally ranked UW-Whitewater with 169 points. UW-LaCrosse won the meet with 33 points, host Eau Claire was second with 80 points and UW-Stout third with 91 points.
For the final week of the regular season, the track and field teams split their squad between the Drake Relays and the UW-whitewater Drake Alternative meet. Rain and unseasonably cold weather hampered the performances in both meets as a few athletes were able to persevere past the rough conditions.
It’s been 23 years since a Division III runner has run a 5,000m race as fast as Ian LaMere did on Friday. LaMere competed in the second heat of invitational 5,000m race at the Iowa State Classic. He followed the pacer for the first 3,000m meters and took control of the race. LaMere lead the remainder of the race until the final meters to finish second with a time of 13:54.88, less than two seconds from the all-time best time of 13:53.17 set by Dan Mayer of North Central in 1994. The performance earned LaMere National Athlete of the Week recognition by the USTFCCCA (United States Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association).
The Pioneer track and field teams hit the road to Stevens Point Saturday morning for their first away meet of the 2017 Indoor season. The No. 11 nationally ranked Pioneer men and No. 12 ranked Pioneer women competed against UW-Stevens Point and UW-Eau Claire. The Pointer men are currently ranked ninth while the Eau Claire men hold the No. 6 spot in the rankings. The Eau Claire women go into the season with the No. 2 ranking in the nation.
