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Matt Noonan
Matt Noonan

Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Baldwin City, Kan.

High School:
Baldwin HS

Birthdate:
12/21/1983

Experience:
1L

Major:
Mechanical Engineering


2005: Outdoor: His season-best steeplechase race came at the Drake Relays (9:18.34) Indoor: Scored valuable points at the Missouri-Kansas-Kansas State Triangular with a runner-up showing in the 3,000-meter run ... Entered Missouri's all-time top five list with a personal-best 5,000-meter race at the Notre Dame Invitational.

2004: Cross Country: Earned All-Big 12 and All-Region honors in a breakthrough season ... Finished ninth at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a 10K personal record (30:54), just missing an at-large individual birth to the NCAA Championships ... Took 15th at the Big 12 Championships, improving 25 spots from the previous year ... Led the team at both the Notre Dame Invitational and NCAA Pre-National meet ... Recorded a breakthrough meet at the Notre Dame Invitational with 30th-place overall finish and personal-best time in the 8K (24:20) Outdoor: An NCAA Regional Qualifier in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, finishing 21st ... Set a new personal-best in the steeplechase at the Stanford Invitational with a time of 9:05.68 ... Finished 13th at the Big 12 Championships in the steeplechase Indoor: Ran a variety of distances during the indoor season ranging from 800 to 3,000 meters ... Finished fourth in the Missouri Invitational in the mile run.

2003: Cross Country: Mizzou's third or fourth scorer in the later part of the season ... One of five to hit a personal best at the NCAA Pre-National meet with a time of 24:50.6. Outdoor: All-Big 12 in the steeplechase after a seventh place finish at the conference meet (9:29.51) ... Finished third at the Missouri Relays in the steeplechase Indoor: Ran in the mile and 3,000-meter events ... Finished seventh at the Missouri Invitational and Illinois Invitational in the mile.

2002: Cross Country: Recorded a solid start to his freshman year ... Finished in the top three among his teammates in all but one meet ... Finished eighth at the Missouri Cross Country Challenge ... Finished 47th at the conference meet and 56th at the NCAA Regional Championships.

High School: Nine-time state champion ... Three-time state champion in cross country... Three-time state champion in the 3,200- and 1,600 meter runs.

Personal: Son of Tom and Marilyn Noonan ... A mechanical engineering major ... Born December 21, 1983, in Seneca, Kan.