Guilford College

2013-14

• Indoor
  • Competed in five meets as a distance runner
  • Ran in the second-fastest distance medley relay in school history (10:47.61) which earned second place at the Winston-Salem State Open
  • Ran the team’s season-best mile  (4:27.39) third-best in school history
  • Set the school record in the 3000 (8:44.10) at the Tar Heel Open
  • Set the school record in the 5000 (15:01.29) at the 2013 Liberty Kick-Off
• Outdoor
  • Participated in eight outdoor meets as a distance specialist
  • Posted the team’s fastest times in the 800, 1500, 3000m Steeplechase, and 5000
  • Won the 5000-meter run at the ODAC Championships in a time of 15:11.24, which helped him to First-Team All-ODAC honors
  • Season-best finish in the 3000m Steeplechase occurred at the ODAC where he placed second (9:53.10)
  • Achieved fourth place in the 1500 at the Jopson Invitational with a time of 4:05.76
  • Ran a personal-best in the 800 (2:00.53) at the Wake Forest Open which placed fourth
  • Ran Guilford’s sixth best time in the Steeplechase (9:26.09) at the Wolfpack Last Chance Meet
  • Recorded the school’s fourth-best time in the 5000 (14:55.86) at the Swarthmore Final Qualifier
  • Part of Guilford’s 4x400 relay team that ran the sixth-best time (3:30.09) in school history

2012-13

• Outdoor
  • named the ODAC Championships Athlete of the Meet after winning both the 3,000-meter steeplechase and 5,000-meter races
  • set the ODAC Championships 5k record with a time of 15:03.74
  • both wins garnered First Team All-ODAC status
  • broke Guilford's 5,000-record at the Swarthmore College Final Qualifying Meet with a time of 14:47.29
  • named to the ODAC's Spring Sportsmanship Team
• Indoor
  • set Guilford's record in the mile with a time of 4:22.42 at the Kent Taylor Invitational
  • earned Third Team All-ODAC honors with a third-place finish in the 5,000 at the ODAC Championships with a time of 15:23.66
  • came home fourth in the 3,000 meters at the ODAC Championships in 8:57.21

2011-12

• Outdoor
  • one of the Quakers top distance runners
  • ran a personal best in the 1500 with a mark of 4:06 at the VertKlasse Meeting
  • his Mile mark (4:28.28) at the PowerSox Invitational placed third in school history
  • set school record in the 5000 with a mark of 14:54.29 at the Duke Invitational
  • 3000m Steeplechase mark of 10:07.33 at the PowerSox Invitational was a personal best and eighth-best in school history
  • his 10k mark of 32:34.88 at the Wake Forest Open is second best in school history
• Indoor
  •  ran the 3000 and 5000 meters during indoor competition
  • set a school record in the 5000 at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Indoor Championships Feb. 24 with a time of 15:21.04 and a first-place finish
  • best finish in the 3000 came Feb. 4 at the Kent Taylor Invitational where he placed eighth overall in time of 8:52.67, the second-fastest time in school history

2010-11

• ran the 3000 and 5000 meters during indoor competition
• set a school record in the 3000 with his third-place finish at the Vince Brown Invitational Feb. 12 in 8:48.75
• placed second in 5000 at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Indoor Championships Feb. 25 (15:41.40), which earned second-team all-league recognition
• added the 1500, 10,000, and 3000 steeplechase to his repertoire in the outdoor season
• finished fourth in the steeplechase at the ODAC Outdoor Championships Apr. 23 in 10:35.90
• ran the 5000 in 15:25.09 at the Lynchburg College Track Classic, earning him a fourth-place finish
• had four top-10 finishes on the season, which ranked second on the team

Personal

• also runs cross country for Guilford
• earned All-South recognition with Guilford's Cross Country team in 2010 and 2011
• three-time Academic All-ODAC
• seven-time member of Guilford's Student-Athlete Honor Roll
• lettered four years in cross country and track under coach Justin Schumacher at Walled Lake Central
• his all-conference performance helped his team win the Kensington Lakes Athletic Conference track title
• won two team division titles in high school as well as all-county and all-region
• holds school records in the 1,600 meters, 3,200 meters and 5k
• son of Cliff and Barbara Norton
• dean's list student
• received the Helen E. and Winslow Womack Chemistry Research Award (2014)