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2025-26 Men's Track and Field Roster

Elijah Jorgensen

Elijah Jorgensen

  • Position:
    Distance
  • Class:
    Junior
  • Hometown:
    Dearborn, Mich.
  • High School:
    Divine Child

Summary

Biography

Official Collegiate Results & Top Times
 

Career Highlights:

  • Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2024)

2025 Outdoor:
  • Was 28th in the 5,000m at 16:19.37 at Oakland's Golden Grizzly Invite
  • Clocked a time of 16:24.91 for 47th in the 5,000m at Oakland's Elaine Leigh Invite

2024-25 Indoor: 
  • Registered a time of 9:43.23 for 14th in the 3,000m at EMU's Bob Parks Memorial
  • Claimed eighth in the 5,000m (16:19.21) at the Akron Invite
  • Posted a time of 9:31.17 for 3,000m at Michigan's Silverston Invitational

2024 Outdoor:
  • Ran 16:37.92 for 24th in the 5,000m and 4:39.00 for 33rd in the 1,500m at the Eastern Illinois Big Blue Invite
  • Clocked a time of 16:06.52 for 37th in the 5,000m at Oakland's Elaine Leigh Invite
  • Posted season-bests at the Horizon League Championships placing 14th in the 10,000m (32:55.28) and 31st in the 5,000m (15:53.25)

2023-24 Indoor:
  • Made his collegiate debut with a time of 9:36.67 in the 3,000m at the SVSU Classic and set a season-best in the 3,000m in 9:26.47 for 49th at the Grand Valley Bill Clinger Classic
  • Ran the mile in 4:54.36 for 19th at the Eastern Michigan Bob Parks Memorial
  • Took 13th in the 5,000m in 16:14.55 at the Akron Invitational
  • Finished 23rd in the 5,000m (16:14.56) and 30th in the 3,000m (9:29.45) at the Horizon League Championships

Prior To Detroit Mercy:
  • A letterwinner in cross country and track and field
  • All-Region and All-Catholic in cross country as a senior, helping the team to its first CHSL title since 1993 and a seventh-place MHSAA finish
  • Claimed a bronze medal in the 3200-meters as a senior
  • Ran club with Mills, Cardinal Gibbons and DC

Personal:
  • Son of Sarah and Greg Jorgensen
  • Has a younger sister and brother
  • His grandmother graduated from the University
  • Chose Detroit Mercy because of the family connection with her grandmother, it was close to home and a Catholic institution
  • A Computer Science major 

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  • 2023-24Freshman

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  • 2024-25Sophomore

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  • 2025-26Junior

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