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2010-11 Men's Track and Field Roster

Earnest Cleary

Earnest Cleary

  • Position:
    Sprints
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Detroit, MI
  • High School:
    Ferndale

Summary

Biography

Horizon League Champion: Indoor: 60m '10 - Outdoor: 100m '10, ‘09
Horizon League Runner-up: Indoor: 60m '09, ’08 - Outdoor: 4x100m- '10, ‘08
Horizon League Newcomer of Year- Running Events- Indoor- ’08; Outdoor-‘08 

2010 Outdoor:
Repeated as the Horizon League’s fastest man, winning the 100m in 10.82... Set a season-best time (10.71) in the prelim... Ran anchor leg on the runner-up (UDM record) 4x100m team at the HL meet (41.88)... Finished second versus Oakland (10.93).

2010 Indoor: Won his second team Most Valuable award... Opened the season with repeat 60m win at Notre Dame (UDM Record - 6.86)... Recorded his first Horizon League 60m title winning in 6.89 after lowering Horizon League and UDM record to 6.83 in the prelim... Broke 7 and finished in the top three in five of the six meets.

2009 Outdoor:
Won Team MVP…Won his first HL title taking the 100m at 10.85 and scored sixth in 200m at his collegiate best of 22.09…Consistently good season with all but two of 10 races under 11 and six races equal to or better than his previous best… UDM record of 10.66 placing third at Bucknell…Won all his races at the two home meets and holds facility records at 10.79 for 100m and 22.18 for 200m…Anchored 4x100m team to #2 Titan mark of 42.33 at Hillsdale and ran two other top 10 times...Anchored 4x200m to UDM record of 1:28.70 at Raleigh…Holds nine of top 12 Titan 100m performances.

Indoor: Opened season winning 60m at Notre Dame with PR of 7.00 and indoor best in 200m of 22.98…Broke 7 in 60m for the first time finishing 2nd at GVSU running 6.97, the second Titan to break the barrier…Ran 6.98 to finish seventh in the 60m at Akron and ran 200m indoor PR of 22.64…Runner-up in HL 60m running 7.03 after running 6.98 as the top qualifier in the preliminary...Also finished fifth in 200m running 23.00.

2008: Horizon League Newcomer of Year in running events indoors and outdoors making All- Horizon League in the 60m and 100m, respectively.

Outdoor: First Titan to break 11 in the 100m running 10.89 in the Horizon League prelimiminary where he was the runner-up in the final running 11.03; anchored the injury depleted 4x100m to fourth and finished fifth in the 200m (22.48)…200m prelim of 22.17 ranks him #7 on the Titan all-time list…Triple winner in the dual versus Oakland taking the 100m (11.0) and 200m (22.4) as well as the anchor carry in the 4x100m…11.02 for eighth in 100m at Bucknell.

Indoor: Won his collegiate 60m debut claiming the UDM rookie record running 7.02 at the Don Wright Team Challenge…Lowered mark to 7.01 in Horizon League 60m prelim and took runner-up honors at 7.04…Member of 4x200m that won both races and took UDM record to 1:31.42.

High School: Michigan Division 2 fourth-place finish in the 100m in 2006 following that with a fifth-place showing in 2007…Took sixth in the 60m at the 2007 Michigan Indoor State Championship.

Personal: Son of Matthew and Aileen Cleary…Majoring in electrical engineering. 

Career Marks
60m - 6.83 - UDM Record 
100m - 10.66 - UDM Record
200m - 22.09 - #7 Titan

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