Sam Ellis

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Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Position:
Middle Distance
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Decatur, Ga.
High School:
Decatur

All-Time Results & PRs

Honors
First Team All-America, 1500 (Outdoor 2022)
First Team All-America, DMR (Indoor 2022)
USTFCCCA Regional Athlete of the Year (Indoor 2020)
NCAA Championships Qualifier, Mile (Indoor 2020)
NCAA Regional Qualifier, 1,500 (Outdoor 2022, Outdoor 2019)
Ivy League Champion, 800, Mile (Indoor 2022)
First Team All-Ivy League, 800, Mile (Indoor 2022)
Ivy League Champion, 1,000, DMR (Indoor 2020)
First Team All-Ivy League, 1,000, DMR (Indoor 2020)
Ivy League Runner-Up, 4x800 (Outdoor 2022)
Second Tea, All-Ivy League (Outdoor 2022)
Ivy League Scorer, Mile, 4x800 (Indoor 2019)
Ivy League Scorer, 800, 4x800 (Indoor 2018)
Ivy League Scorer, 1,500, 4x800 (Outdoor 2022, Outdoor 2019)

Records
Ivy League Record, DMR: 9:23.30 (Indoor 2022)
School Record, Mile, 3:56.87 (Indoor 2022)
School Record, 1,500: 3:37.60 (Outdoor 2022)
Top-5 Time, 800: 1:48.32 (Indoor 2022)
Top-5 Time, 1,000, 2:22.26 (Indoor 2020)
Top-5 Time, 600, 1:21.20 (Indoor 2019)
Top-10 Time, 600: 1:21.20 (Indoor 2022)

Featured
Coming Up Big in His Final Race for PU Men's Track, Ellis Takes 3rd in 1,500 at NCAAs, Tigers Finish 7th Overall - Justin Feil, Town Topics

2021-22: Finished third in the 1,500 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and was named First Team All-America ... finished fourth in the DMR at the NCAA Indoor Championships and collected First Team All-America honors ... finished sixth in the 1,500 at the NCAA East Regional ... won the mile and the 800 indoor Heps ... was part of the DMR team that set a new Ivy record at the Alex Wilson Invitational ... competed in five regular season indoor meets ... competed at three regular season outdoor meets ... competed at one regular season XC meet.

2019-20: Competed at three regular season XC meets, along with Heps...competed at five regular season indoor meets, along with Heps...Indoor NCAA Championships were canceled due to COVID-19...outdoor season was canceled due to COVID-19.

2018-19: Competed at the Princeton XC Invitational and Heps...competed at five regular season indoor meets, along with Heps...competed at four regular season outdoor meets, along with Penn Relays, Heps and the NCAA Regional.

2017-18: Competed at six regular season indoor meets, along with Heps...competed at three regular season outdoor meets, along with Penn Relays and Heps.

Before Princeton: An eight-time all-state track & field athlete, Ellis won three 800-meter and 1600-meter state championships...was the 2016 5A state champion in cross country and has been named all-state in cross country three times, and twice earned all-metro honors both cross country and track...competed at both the New Balance Indoor and Outdoor Nationals in 2017...holds the school records in the 800, 1600, 5k and high jump and is the 5A state record holder in the 800 meters.