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Saint Joseph's Hawks
Saint Joseph's Hawks

2015 Men's Track & Field Roster

Nick Beninato

  • Position Hurdles/Long Sprints
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 165
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Havertown, Pa.
  • High School Cardinal O'Hara

Biography

Personal Records 
              
                                                                               
Event Time Meet Host School Year
Outdoor 400H 55.92 Atlantic 10 Championships George Mason 2015
Indoor 300m 37.77 Jack Pyrah Invitational Villanova 2014
Indoor 400m
52.23 Giegengack Invitational Yale 2015
Indoor 500m 1:07.69 Winter Games Invitational Lafayette/Rider 2012
Outdoor 1500m 4:21.13 Lehigh Games Lehigh 2015

Outdoor 2015:
SJU's Dorie Leahy Award recipient.

Indoor 2014-15: Closed out season with three consecutive 400m races, posting back-to-back 13th-place finishes at Yale's Giegengack Invitational (collegiate-best 52.23) and the Monmouth Winter Collegiate Open (52.46)... Also ran third leg of fifth-place 4x400m relay (3:23.04) at Yale... Ran second legs on third-place DMR (10:29.89) at the Lehigh Angry Birds Meet and seventh-place DMR (10:26.89) at the Penn State Relays... Added season-best 500m (1:08.56) at PSU Relays... Improved upon 300m PR by 1.11 (37.77) in season-opening race at the Jack Pyrah Invitational.

Outdoor 2014: Ran personal-record 400H (57.95) for seventh place at the Lehigh Games... Also ran second leg of championship 4x400m (3:26.34) at Lehigh... Took sixth in 400H at Widener Invitational and 11th at Rider... Also ran leadoff leg of championship 4x400m (3:22.50) at Rider and anchor leg of fourth-place 4x400m at Widener... Made the SJU Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Spring 2014.

Indoor 2013-14: Competed in the 500m four times on the season... Improved upon 500m time throughout all four races... Posted season-best 500m (1:07.81) at the Armory during the Lafayette/Rider Winter Games... Took eighth in the 500m (1:08.24) at the Giegengack Invitational for highest event finish of season... Ran first leg of the second-place 4x400m (3:30.84) at the Ursinus Collegeville Classic... Also took eighth in 400m (53.40) at Ursinus... Anchored the sixth-place 4x400m (3:32.81) at Jack Pyrah... Made the SJU Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Fall 2013.

Outdoor 2013: Did not compete.

Indoor 2012-13: Ran season-best 500m (1:09.03) at Lafayette/Rider's Winter Games Invitational... Took second in the 400m (53.34) at the University of Delaware's Collegiate Invitational... Also ran second leg of 4x400m that won event (3:31.59) at Delaware.

Outdoor 2012: Notched time of 58.30 in the 400H at Swarthmore College's Last Chance Meet.

Indoor 2011-12: Posted season-best times in the 300m (38.88) at Princeton's New Year's Invitational and 400m (53.10) at the University of Delaware's Thomson Invitational and personal-best 500m (1:07.69) at the Lafayette/Rider Invitational... Was a member of the 4x400m that posted season-best time of 3:17.89 at Delaware.

High School/Personal: Two-time All-PCL First Team selection... Posted PRs in 400m (51.7), 800m (1:59) and high jump (6' 0") as a senior at Cardinal O'Hara... Majoring in food marketing and minoring in communication studies.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014Junior

    Sprints/Hurdles
    5'10" 156 lbs
  • 2015Senior

    Hurdles/Long Sprints
    5'11" 165 lbs