Academic Notes:2009 and 2010 Big Sky All-Academic selection ... Majoring inmicrobiology.
Personal Bests:8:14.56 (3,000m), 14:35.69 (5,000m), 29:58.31 (10,000m), 9:45.18(steeplechase)
2011 Track & Field: Appeared in four meetsdue to injury his third season ... Made the most of his time on thetrack during the indoor season, recording three personal-best times... Doubled up at the Big Sky Indoor Championships in the3,000-meter run and the 5K, scoring a fourth-place finish in the 3K(8:14.56@) and fifth overall in the 5K ... Ran a career-best5,000-meter mark at the Husky Classic with a time of 14:35.69 ...Collected an altitude-adjusted time of 4:16.68 in the mile at theLumberjack Invitational.
2010 CrossCountry: Closed out cross country season at the NCAAChampionships, finishing 141st overall, and eight-place improvementfrom 2009, in a time of 31:30.9 … Finished 32nd overall, andfifth on the team, at the NCAA Mountain Region Championships… Recorded career-best 10K time of 30:48.7 at the MountainRegional from Salt Lake City, Utah, and improved six spots from ayear ago … Placed 11th overall on the team at the Big SkyChampionships, completing the 8K course in 22:27.3 … Ran toa 61st-place finish (24:33.1) in the ‘blue’ race at theNCAA Pre-Nationals, 31 spots better than his 2009 performance… Aided men’s team to third-place finish at theStanford Invitational after finishing 23rd in personal-best 8K timeof 24:23 … Finished fourth overall (26:36.4) at the GeorgeKyte Classic to open season.
2010 Track &Field: In his second track season, collected threepersonal best times in the 1500m (4:07.30), 5,000m (14:42.24) andthe 10,000m (29:58.31) … Ended the 2010 outdoor season withthe 65th-best time in the 10K in the West Region … Finishedthird overall at the Big Sky Outdoor Championships in the 10K(30:04.20@) to earn first career Big Sky medal … Followed up10K performance with a sixth-place finish in the 5K to score ninepoints during the championships … 10K PR came at the Mt. SACRelays when he finished 19th overall in the Olympic developmentheat … Recorded best 3,000-meter time of the indoor seasonat the Big Sky Indoor Championships (8:38.63@).
2009 CrossCountry: Enjoyed breakout sophomore campaign,participating in six races for the Lumberjacks, including a trip tothe NCAA Cross Country Championships … Finished 149 overallin the race, recording a 10,000-meter best time of 31:21.7 on thecourse … Placed 38th, sixth on the team, at the NCAAMountain Region Championships in a time of 31:25.2 …Recorded third top-ten finish of the season at the Big SkyChampionships, finishing eighth overall (25:58.5) to earn All-BigSky honors … In his first career trip to Terre Haute, Ind.,finished 92nd overall in the “blue” race at the NCAAPre-Nationals … Finished ninth overall at the Aztec Invite(26:21) … Opened season with a second-place finish at theGeorge Kyte Classic as he was the first Lumberjack to cross thefinish line in a time of 25:39.1.
2009 Track &Field: Recorded times of 4:47.31 in the mile, and 9:04.66in the 3,000 during the indoor season. In the 3,000 steeplechase,had season-best time of 9:45.18 in outdoor campaign.
2008 CrossCountry: In first full season with the Lumberjacks he ranin three races ... Placed 86th overall (26:25) at Cowboy Jamboree... In the Aztec Invitational placed 75th (26:37) ... Recorded atime of 26:45.5 in George Kyte Classic.
2008 Track &Field: Redshirt season.
2007 CrossCountry: Redshirt season.
High School: Graduated from Seton Catholic HighSchool in 2007 ... Earned four cross country letters and served asteam captain for three years ... Three-year letterwinner andtwo-time team captain of the track team ... Broke school's 5k and 2mile high school records.
Personal: Born on March 19, 1989 to Michael andGail Belus ... Has one brother, Matthew ... Enjoys hunting,camping, and climbing.
