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2014 Men's Cross Country

Eric Schuler

  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 140
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Fulton, Md.

Biography

2014: Competed and scored in all six meets for the Retrievers as a senior... Earned a 9th place finish at the Mount 5K Duals, finishing in a time of 15:39... Posted a time of 25:30 at the Navy Invite, placing 18th at the meet... Finished in 76th place with a time of 25:00 at the Paul Short Invitational in October... Recorded his best time of the season at the Princeton Ivitational, finishing in a time of 24:48 in 29th place... At the America East Championships, he placed 20th with a time of 25:41... Concluded his career at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals with a 58th place finish in a time of 31:34... Named to the America East Commissioners' Honor Roll.

2013: Named the America East Men’s Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year… Scored three times for the Retrievers during his junior year, leading the team and the entire field across the line at the America East Pre-Conference Meet at Binghamton on Sept. 7… Won the season-opening meet in Vestal, N.Y. with a time of 25:33.1, the second-fastest time in course history at the time of the meet… Also scored at the Navy Invitational and the Paul Short Run at Lehigh… Recorded a season-best 8k time of 25:11.81 while scoring at the Navy meet in Annapolis, Md. … Named to the America East All-Academic Team… Listed on the America East Honor Roll.

2012: Scored in four of the six races in which he competed, leading the Retrievers across the line for the first time in his career at the Mason Invitational on Sept. 29… Finished 18th overall at Outlands Plantation with a 8K time of 26:26.90… Set a career-best at that distance two weeks later, finishing the Princeton Invitational in 25:02.55, the 10th-fastest time in school history… Took 16th overall at the America East Championships, helping UMBC finish third in the team standings, the program’s best finish since 2005… Selected to the America East All-Academic Team… Named to the America East Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

2011: Competed at five of the Retrievers' six meets as a freshman, scoring twice for UMBC... Placed 19th with a 5K time of 15:47.58 at the season-opening Mount St. Mary's Duals... Finished in 79th at the America East Championships with an 8K time of 27:25.69... Set a season-best 8K time of 25:36.85 at the Navy Invite on Sept. 17... Named to the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll.

Background: Holds five individual records and helped set three relay records while competing in cross country and track at Reservoir High... Won the 2010 Howard County cross country championship... Helped lead the Gators to the 2010 outdoor track state championship... A member of the National Honor Society.

Personal: Son of Greg and Maureen Schuler... Has two brothers, Brian and Jason... Majoring in computer science and would like to work as a software developer... Born Apr. 24, 1993.

Historical Player Information

  • 2012Sophomore

    5'10" 140 lbs
  • 2013Junior

    5'10" 140 lbs
  • 2014Senior

    5'10" 140 lbs
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