Jack Bolas

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Jack Bolas
Personal information
Nationality American
Born (1987-11-01) November 1, 1987 (age 36)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Sport
Sport Track
Event(s) 1500 meters, mile
College team UW-Madison
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 800m : 1:47.29 [1]
1500m : 3:35.54 [1]
5000m : 13:44.21 [1]

Jack Bolas (born November 1, 1987) is a middle-distance runner who specializes in the mile. He competed for the United States at the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival, where he ran in the men's 1500 meters.

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Running career

High school

Bolas attended Chapel Hill High School in his hometown, where he competed in track and cross country. In his senior year of high school, he broke into the national tier when he won the 2005 North Carolina 4A Boys' Cross Country Championships ahead of Sandy Roberts. [2] He placed sixth overall at the 2005 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, and was the fastest runner in the competition who was from the South Regional class. [3]

Collegiate

Bolas was recruited by University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he attended school and ran competitively until his graduation in 2010. He placed fourth overall in the men's 1500 meters at the 2010 NCAA DI Outdoor T&F Championships. He was UW-Madison's first runner to have ever run under four minutes in the mile when he ran 3:59.40 at the 2008 Meyo Mile. [4]

Post-collegiate

After graduating, Bolas joined coach Frank Gagliano at New Jersey New York Track Club. On September 6, 2013, he finished in third place among male finishers at Grandma's Minnesota Mile in a time of 3:53.5. [5] In the summer of 2015, he raced the east coast mile circuit. On July 18, 2015, he won the DCRRC Track Championships Mile in 4:05. [6] On August 13, 2015, he won the inaugural Boxcar Mile in West Chester, Pennsylvania in a time of 3:58.63. [7] On September 9, 2015, Bolas competed at the Hoka One One's Long Island Mile in New York in a time of 3:59.91, placing seventh overall. Jack Bolas is currently a substitute teacher and assistant cross-country coach at Washington International School. [8]

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References

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  2. Archived 2016-09-17 at the Wayback Machine Travis Long. No Ordinary Day. February 28, 2011 (date of the meet was in 2005)
  3. Foot Locker National Championship: Boys' Results (December 10, 2005). Morley Field - Balboa Park. San Diego, CA. 5.00 Kilometers. Retrieved September 13, 2015
  4. Badgers Track and Field. "Jack Bolas Bio". Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  5. Andrew Krueger (September 9, 2013). "Runners shatter course records in Minnesota Mile". Superior Telegram. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  6. DC Road Runners: 2015 DCRR Track Championships Mile Heats. July 18, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2015
  7. Archived 2015-12-03 at the Wayback Machine Chester County Running Store: Boxcar Mile Results (August 13, 2015). Retrieved September 13, 2015
  8. Runnerspace.com: Hoka One One Long Island Mile Results (September 9, 2015). Retrieved September 13, 2015.