Ed Trippas

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Princeton University men's and women's track & field, Sam Howell Invitational Princeton, NJ, April 6, 2018.

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Position:
Distance
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Sydney, Australia
High School:
SHORE

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All-Time Results & PRs

Honors
Olympian, Steeple (Tokyo 2020)
First Team All-America, Steeple (Outdoor 2022)
Honorable Mention All-America, Steeple (Outdoor 2019)
NCAA Championships Participant, Steeple (Outdoor 2019, 2022)
NCAA Regional Qualifier, Steeple (Outdoor 2018, 2019, 2022)
NCAA XC Championships Participant (2018, 2022)
NCAA XC Regional Participant (2018, 2022)
Second Team All-Ivy League, XC (2018)
Ivy League Champion, Steeple (Outdoor 2019, 2022)
First Team All-Ivy League, Steeple (Outdoor 2019, 2022)
First Team All-Ivy League, XC (2022)
Ivy League Runner-Up, 5,000 (Indoor 2020)
Second Team All-Ivy League, 5,000 (Indoor 2020)
Ivy League Scorer, 3,000 (Indoor 2019, 2020, 2022)
Ivy League Scorer, DMR (Indoor 2022)
Ivy League Scorer, Steeple (Outdoor 2018)
Ivy League Scorer, 4x800 (Outdoor 2019)
USTFCCCA All-Academic (2022)

Records
Top-5 Time, Steeple, 8:20.29 (Outdoor 2022)
Top-5 Time, 3,000, 7:55.23 (Indoor 2022)

Tokyo Olympics: Finished 11th in his heat of the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 8:29.90...qualified on the final day of the qualification window in Valencia, Spain, with a time of 8:19.60...his qualification time was the third-fastest time ever by an Australian and ranked No. 10 all-time by an NCAA student-athlete.

2021-22: Finished fifth and earned First Team All-America honors in the steeplechase at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 8:20.29 ... won the steeplechase at the NCAA East Regional ... won the steeplechase and collected First Team All-Ivy honors in the steeplechase at outdoor Heps ... finished third in th 3,000 and fifth in the DMR at indoor Heps ... finished 67th in the 10K at the NCAA XC Championships ... finished sixth in the 8K at the Mid-Atlantic Region XC Championships ... finished second in the 8K at XC Heps ... competed in two regular season XC meets ... competed in four regular season indoor meets ... competed in three regular season outdoor meets.

2019-20: Competed at three regular season indoor meets, along with Heps...did not compete during XC season...outdoor season was canceled due to COVID-19.

2018-19: Competed at three regular season XC meets along with Heps, the NCAA Regional and the NCAA Championship...competed at two regular season indoor meets, along with Heps...competed at three regular season meets, along with Heps, the NCAA Regional and the NCAA Championships.

2017-18: Competed at three regular season XC meets, along with Heps...competed at two regular season indoor meets...competed at four regular season outdoor meets, along with Penn Relays, Heps the IC4A/ECAC Championships and the NCAA Regional.

Before Princeton: The 2016 Australian Junior Championship runner-up in the U20 3000-meter steeplechase, clocking a 9:04...competed at the 2017 IAAF World Cross Country Championship in Kampala, Uganda and at the 2016 ISF World Schools Cross Country Championship in Budapest.