2021-22 USCI Men's Cross Country
Biography
Career Honors
CACC Runner of the Week (Oct. 19, 2021)
3x CACC All-Academic Team (2019, 2020-21, 2021)
2019-20 D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award
7x Dean’s List Honors
Three 4.0 GPA Semesters
Collegiate Personal Records: 28:25.7 (8K) | 38:39.00 (10K)
CACC Championship Performances:
2018 - 58th
2019 - 44th
TFRRS Performance List
2021:
- Led the USciences men at the CACC Championship with a career-best 20th-place finish. Having previously placed 58th as a freshman and 44th as a sophomore, the senior crossed in the top-fourth of the field of 80 with a time of 29:20.4 (10/24)
- Set a new collegiate personal record, 28:25.7, for a second time this season to place 22nd in a field of 208 at Rowan's Border Battle (10/16)
- Continued to lead the men with a top-fourth of the field finish at the Jack Saint Clair Memorial, crossing 31st in the field of 128 in 29:59.3. He was 11th amongst CACC competitors in a race that included seven CACC squads (10/9)
- Placed in the top-half of the field in the Men's College White 8K at Lehigh's Paul Short Run, crossing 100th out of 218 in a new collegiate personal record of 28:33.4, shaving over thirty seconds off his previous best time (10/1)
- Placed in the top-seventh of the field of 104 at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Championships, crossing 14th in 30:35.6 in his season debut (9/11)
2020:
- Season cancelled due to COVID
2019:
- Improved on his 58th-place finish as a freshman from last year, coming in 44th to narrowly miss out on a top-half-of-the-field finish at the CACC Championship (10/27)
- Beat his previous collegiate personal record by over a minute with a time 29:09.98 at Rowan's Inter-Regional Border Battle (10/19)
- Was the second Devil to cross at the Jack Saint Clair Memorial, coming in at 31:20.3 to finish 57th overall in the field of 160 (10/12)
- Finished in the top-third of the field of 102 at the Delaware Invitational in 28th, falling under eight seconds shy of his collegiate personal record after completing the 8K course in 30:29.2 (9/28)
- Set a new collegiate personal record at the season-opening Philadelphia Metropolitan Championship after crossing in 30:22.0 to place in the top-third of the field in 40th (9/7)
2018:
- The lone freshman to run for the Devils on the day, navigated his first-ever collegiate 10K in 38:39.00 at the NCAA East Regional (11/17)
- Running at their first-ever CACCChampionship, finished with a times of 32:16.2 (10/28)
- Finished one position outside of the top-half of the field at the Jack St. Clair Memorial after crossing in 31:06.3 (10/13)
- Placed in the top-half of the field of 135 in 50th at the Philadelphia Metro Championship, coming in over 30 seconds faster than the previous week by clocking in at 30:59.4 (9/8)
- Collected a top-15 finish in his first collegiate race by completing the season-opening Wilmington Invitational in 31:30.73 to place 13th (9/1)
Prior to USciences:
- Cross Country Second Team League All-Star
- 2017 and 2018 track and field Sectional champions
- 2017 Cross Country All-Academic Award
- 2017 Cross Country Team League Sportsmanship Award
- 2017 Team Coaches Award recipient
- 2016 Second Team League All-Star
Personal:
- Son of Tim and Mariella Zuch
- Chose USciences because of the reputation it had in the pharmacy community, as well as the beautiful campus and the location of Philadelphia
- Would like to work in a clinical pharmacy after graduation
Historical Player Information
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2018-19Freshman
5'10"
155 lbs
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2019-20Sophomore
5'10"
155 lbs
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2020-21Junior
5'10"
155 lbs
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2021-22Redshirt Junior
5'10"
155 lbs