Chris Hughes Season 2020-21

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COLLEGIATE PERSONAL BESTS: 1500, - 4:04.15, 3000m - 8:23.68 , 5000m - 14:46.84, XC 8k - 25:28.1, 10k - 31:12.0

AWARDS: Academic All-Big Ten (2021)

ON A NATIONAL STAGE
Cross Country
NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional (11/15/19): Placed 37th in first regional competition (31:12.0).

AT THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Cross Country
Big Ten Cross Country Championships (11/3/19): Clocked 25:28.1 (74th).

TRACK AND FIELD
2021 Indoor
Placed fifth in the 5000m at the Nittany Lion Opener in his lone appearance of the season. 

2020 Outdoor
Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 Indoor
Season: Set personal-best marks in both 3000m and 5000m events...Finished three races in top five.

2019 Outdoor
Season: Set  personal best in 1500m...Posted then-personal-best marks in 3000m and 5000m events...Recorded a pair of top-10 finishes.

ASU Invitational (3/22-23): Ran personal best in 3000m for sixth (8:49.95). Bison Outdoor Classic (4/13-14): Clocked a personal best in 5000m. Penn Relays (4/25-27): Ran 15:15.36 in  5000m. Jim Thorpe (5/3): Ran personal-best time in 1500m race.

2019 Indoor
Season: Did not compete.

CROSS COUNTRY
2019
Season: Competed in first NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional and Big Ten Cross Country Championships of his career...Ran personal-best times in 8k and 10k races.

Spiked Shoe Invitational (9/13): Ran 19th (26:30.9) in first home meet of career.

2018
Season: Did not compete.

BEFORE PENN STATE
High School PRs: XC (5K): 15:17, 3200m: 9:16.13, 1600m: 4:22.32, XC (2.75-mile): 13:33
Served as team captain for cross country, indoor track and outdoor track...Won NY State cross country championship (2017)...Captured two Foothills cross country conference championships…Earned all-state honors three times...Won Foothills Conference indoor track titles in 1k (2016, 2017), 600m (2016), and 1600m (2017)...Captured Foothills Conference outdoor titles in 800m and 1600m (2016)...Won Section 2 outdoor track champion in 800m, 1600m, 3200m...Set school record in the 3200m, 1600m.

PERSONAL
Full name is Christopher Mark Hughes...Son of Anna Poulos and Peter Hughes...Has one brother, Brian, and two sisters, Erica and Alex...Brother, Brian, graduated from PSU...Majoring in psychology...Chose Penn State because “I wanted a large D1 school with strong academics and athletics”...Born on February 4, 2000, in Queensbury, New York.