Aron Long at DirectAthletics
Career Highlights
10-time IC4A qualifier
2015 SoCon Outdoor 200-meter champion, second in the 100 and part of 23 team points
Runner-up, 2016 SoCon indoor 200-meters
Third place, 2015 SoCon indoor 200
Sixth in the 200-meters at 2013 BSC Indoor Champs, finished fifth the following year
2015-16: Second in the 200 at the indoor SoCon meet...also finished ninth in the 60...qualified for the IC4A Championships in the 200, his 10th career qualification to the meet...was third at Youngstown State and seventh at Virginia Tech, both in the 200...outdoors, finished 12th in the 200 at the conference championship...was 13th in both the 100 and 200 at High Point.
2014-15: Won the 200 and finished second in the 100 at the SoCon Outdoor Championships...100 time of 10.67 was the fastest by a Keydet since 2006...200 clocking of 21.33 was the seventh-fastest time in school history...qualified for the IC4A meet in both events, the outdoor 4X1 and the indoor 200, bumping his career qualification total to nine...eighth in the 100 at the Charlotte Invite and sixth in the 200 at High Point...limited to the 4X1 relay at the IC4A meet due to injury...finished third in the 200 at the SoCon indoor meet and was seventh in the 60-meters...qualified for the IC4A meet in the 200 and finished 23rd...fourth in the 200 at the YSU Invite.
2013-14: Posted an IC4A qualifying effort both indoors and outdoors, running his career total to five such efforts...outdoors, qualified as part of the 4X100 relay effort (did not compete due to injuries)...made the conference finals in the 100-meters, finishing seventh in extremely adverse weather conditions...clocked in at 10.89 to miss the IC4A standard by .04 seconds...finished 13th in the 200 at that meet...missed the IC4A mark in the 100 by .02 second at March's VCU Ram Invite, where he ran a 10.87...during the indoor season, was 32nd in the 200 at the IC4A meet...finished fifth in that event at the conference championships...sixth in the 60 and 3rd in the 200 at the Liberty Quad...ran both the 200 and the 400 at the YSU Indoor Invitational.
2012-13: Qualified for the outdoor IC4A meet in both the 100 and 200, becoming the first Keydet to reach that meet in an event shorter than 800 meters since 2010-11...accomplished that feat at the outdoor opener, the W&L Carnival...went on to set personal bests in the 100 (10.83) and 200 (21.45) at the outdoor conference meet, finishing tied for 13th and 10th respectively...finished 24th in the 200 at the indoor IC4A meet...was sixth in the 200 at the Big South Indoor Championships for his first career conference scoring performance...finished 10th in the 60-meter dash, with a seasonal best time of 7.00...second in the 55 at the VMI Winter Relays.
High School/Personal: Finished fifth at the AAA State meet (indoors) in the 300-meters...ranked fourth in the state in that event...currently fourth in the state in the 200-meters...placed second in the region at NW Region Outdoor meet...finished seventh at the state meet in the 200-meters.
Personal Bests:
60-Meters: 7.00
100-Meters: 10.67
200-Meters: 21.33
400-Meters: 51.06
