Ermin Mujezinovic at DirectAthletics
Career Highlights
All-Conference in 2008 Cross Country Season
Third in the mile at the 2011 BSC Indoor Meet
Co-Captain of VMI's 2010 XC Team
2011-12: Returned as a fifth-year senior to lend leadership to the squad...was ninth in the steeplechase at the conference outdoor meet...also made the finals of the 1,500 at that event, finishing 12th...was third in the 5K at the VMI/W&L Carnival...competed at the indoor IC4A Championships on VMI's Distance Medley Relay squad...finished eighth in the mile and 10th in the 3K at the Big South Indoor Championships...ran an 8:30.40 3K, a personal best, to finish third at the Akron Invitational.
2010-11: Teamed with Felix Kitur and Andrey Dmitriev to give the Keydets a strong trio of cross country runners at the top of their lineup...had the top overall time at the VMI Cross Country Relays...posted an 8K PR of 25:08 at Oct. 1's Charlotte Invitational, finishing ninth overall and helping VMI to a third-place team finish...was fifth at the Big South Preview...finished 14th at the Big South Championships...went on to score in the mile at the Big South Indoor Championships, earning All-Big South honors with a third-place finish...best mile time of the year came at the season-opening NE Invitational, a 4:19.05 effort that gave him an event victory...finished seventh in the steeplechase at the outdoor conference meet, as well as making the finals in the 1,500...ran PR's in four different events during the 2010-11 track season.
2009-10: Had a strong cross country season, highlighted by a seventh-place finish at the Big South Preview Meet...was VMI's #1 or #2 runner in three of season's six meets...returned to the track for the first time since December of 2008...scored in the mile at the Big South Indoor Championships, running a PR of 4:20.26...also notched a 1,000-meter personal best at January's Great Dane Classic, completing the distance in 2:36.45...was third in the 1,500-meter run at the outdoor Liberty Collegiate Invitational...finished ninth in the steeplechase at the Big South Outdoor Championships (9:44.30), but scored in the 1,500, finishing seventh in a personal best time of 3:58.99...rounded out his season with an 800-meter PR at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier (1:55.57), as well as 4X800-meter relay apperances at the Penn Relays and the IC4A Outdoor Championships...will be a co-captain of the 2010 men's cross country team.
2008-09: Won the season-opening cross country event, the VMI Season Opener...was VMI's top finisher in each of the Keydets' first three XC meets, including a fifth-place clocking at the Big South preview...set a personal best at October's Paul Short Run...finished eighth overall at the Big South Championships, earning All-Conference honors in the process...on the track, set a new personal best in the indoor mile at the season-opening Golden Flash Gala at Kent State...did not compete during the outdoor season.
2007-08: Participated in both track and cross country...was the Keydets' top performer in the UNCA Bulldog Cross Country Invitational, finishing sixth overall, thanks to his 27:22 time in the 8K...posted an improved 8K time two weeks later at the Paul Short Run, completing the distance in 26:10...also took part in three other cross country events, with a best performance of 22nd overall at the Big South Championships...on the track, took part in several events during his freshman campaign...finished ninth in the mile at the Big South Indoor Championships...came home seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at UVA's meet in mid-April...placed eighth in the steeplechase at the Big South Championships.
High School: Nine-time All-State track performer, doing so four times in the indoor season, and five during outdoor...Two-time member of the All-American 4x800m and DMR teams...Two-time state champion in the 4x800m relay...also a three-time All-State performer in cross country.
Personal Bests:
800m: 1:57
1000m: 2:36
Mile: 4:14
5K: 15:52
8K: 25:08 (2010 Charlotte Invitational)
