Tigers will Compete at Three Meets; Haarklau Opens Week With Record Pole Vault
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Personal Bests
Indoor
Outdoor
800m
1:49.31
1:47.53
Mile
4:14.80
1,000m Run
2:29.15
1,500m Run
3:59.63
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Five-time Drake Relays High School Champion
NCAA Regional Qualifier
Two-Time All Big 12
2010 Big 12 Champion (800m)
YEAR-BY-YEAR
2011 Indoor: Focused primarily on the 800m run during the indoor season and posted a season-best clocking of 1:51.09, doing so in the preliminary heat of the race at the Big 12 Championships, advancing him to the event finals where he finished eighth, earning All-Big 12 honors ... Also ran in the 600-yard run, clocking a season-best time of 1:14.62. Outdoor: Did not compete.
2010: Indoor: All-Big 12 honoree in the 800m run after finishing third overall with a time of 1:50.39 in the event finals ... Ran the fastest time in the preliminary heat of the race at 1:49.77 ... Season-best in the 800m run came at the ISU Classic when he posted an NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 1:49.31, a personal-best in the event ... That mark ranked him 22nd nationally and third in the Big 12 behind a pair of Baylor runners ... His time of 1:49.31 was also a team-best during the season ... Just missed hitting the NCAA provisional qualifying standard in the 800m run at the Adidas Classic as he clocked in at a then personal-best 1:50.56 ... Hit the provisional standard in each of his final three races of the regular season, highlighted by his personal-best clocking at the ISU Classic ... Ran a time of 1:50.51 in the 800m run at the Last Chance Meet, just missing a qualifying spot at the NCAA Championships. Outdoor: Became the Tigers' first Big 12 Champion in the men's 800m run since Derrick Peterson in 2000 after clocking a then personal-best time of 1:48.80, which earned him a spot at the NCAA First Round in Austin, Texas ... Once at the first round, he ran a time of 1:49.66 to advance to the quarterfinal of the event where he finished third at 1:49.53, qualifying for the NCAA Championship Final Round in Eugene, Ore. ... That time ranks him seventh all-time on Mizzou's storied 800m list and was a personal-best by nearly a second ... Also claimed the Arkansas Twilight 800m title after clocking in at 1:49.88 ... Ran as a member of the men's 4x800m relay team that ran the program's fifth-best time of 7:20.17 at the Drake Relays ... He ran an 800m split of 1:48.60 in that race ... He also ran as a member of the distance medley relay team at the Drake Relays and helped Mizzou run a time of 9:44.08 ... Ran as a member of the Mizzou's 4x880-yard and 4x400m relay teams at the Kansas Relays, helping Mizzou claim the team title at the meet.
2009: Outdoor: Earned All-Big 12 Honors as a true freshmen running a personal best of 1:49.80 to make the final of the 800 meter run. Won his heat of the 800 at the John McDonnell Invitational in a time 1:51.08. Indoor: Earned two All-Big 12 Honors , one as part of the Distance Medley Relay that placed third and another in the 800 meter run. Ran a personal best of 1:51.81 to win his heat at the Big 12-SEC challenge.
2008: Cross Country: Ran in two races for the Tigers
High School: Five-time IHSAA 4A Champion, sweeping titles at 800 and 1600 meters in 2008 ... second at 1600 at the state meet his junior year ... also All-State performer in cross country ... helped team to state titles in 2006 and 2007 in cross country and in 2008 with track & field ... five-time Drake Relay Champion ... two-time champ of the Drake Relays 1600-meter and twice anchored team to 4x800 Drake title in 2007 and 2008 and was nominated for the Relays' Athlete of the Meet in 2007 and was runner-up in 2008 ... two-time USATF Junior Olympic Champion ... high school coach - Erik Belby ... club - Riverdale XC (Riverdale, Iowa) ... high school PRs - 400m, 49.28; 800m, 1:52.69; 1500m, 3:58.21; 1600m, 4:15.91; 3-Mile, 15:02; 5000m, 15:41.
Personal: Son of Thomas & Dawn Irwin ... wants to study business at MU ... born February 21, 1990, in Lich, Germany.
