2015-16 Track and Field Roster

Austin Shaffer

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Rose Hill, Kan.
  • Highschool Rose Hill
  • Major Petroleum Engineering
  • Position Sprints

Biography

TFRRS PROFILE

2014-15: Indoor Track & Field – Achieved six top-two efforts, including three wins...Won Alumni Open 400 in 51.06 and claimed 4x400 at both Potts Indoor Invitational (3:22.20) and CSM Twilight Open (3:24.00)...RMAC First Team All-Academic. Outdoor Track & Field – Timed runner-up with 4x400 (3:27.55) and third in 400 (50.12) at CSM Pre-Conference Invite...Ended 12th in RMAC 400 race in 50.11...RMAC First Team All-Academic...Capital One Third Team Academic All-American and First Team Academic All-District.

2013-14: Indoor Track & Field – USTFCCCA All-South Central Region with 4x400, running 10th at NCAA Division II National Championships in 3:18.41...Generated five wins, five provisional times and 10 top-three results...Twice scored at conference meet, winning RMAC championship with 4x400 in Adams State High Altitude Training Center record 3:17.70 and placing seventh in 400 in 50.32...Ran provisional 49.56 in 400 prelims...Claimed 4x400 at Potts Indoor Invitational (3:25.40), CSM Twilight Open (3:21.12) and Joe Davies Open (3:17.43)...Added win in 400 at CSM Twilight in 50.36...RMAC First Team All-Academic...RMAC Summit Award winner. Outdoor Track & Field – Logged five top-five efforts...Ran first with 4x400 (3:14.23), runner-up in 400 (49.04) and fourth in 200 (22.80) at Front Range Open...Sat 11th in 400 at RMAC races in 49.58...RMAC First Team All-Academic...RMAC Summit Award winner...Capital One Second Team Academic All-American and First Team Academic All-District...USTFCCCA All-Academic...RMAC Scholar-Athlete.

2012-13: Indoor Track & Field – USTFCCCA All-American and All-South Central Region with DMR...Placed eighth at NCAA Division II National Championships in 10:03.99...Timed No. 3 Division II auto 10:12.95 with DMR at Joe Davies Collegiate Open...Two-time Third Team All-RMAC, ranking third with 4x400 (3:23.44) and sixth in 400 (50.83) at RMAC races...Ran second in 400 (51.80) and third in 200 (24.01) at CSM Twilight Collegiate Open. Outdoor Track & Field – Had four top-five relay times...Runner-up with 1600 sprint medley relay (3:40.15) at Air Force Relays and fourth with 4x400 at both Mines Division II Front Range Invitational (3:31.81) and Colorado Invitational (3:32.45)...Crossed fifth with 4x400 at RMAC Championships in 3:22.83...Earned season-high finish in 400 (4th; 49.87) at Mines Pre-Conference Open.

High School: Three-year letterwinner...Led 4x400 relay to KSHAA 4A State, Regional and Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League (AVCTL) Division 3 titles in 2011, helping Rockets to Regional and AVCTL Division 3 team championships...Regional and AVCTL Division 3 400 runner-up and eighth-place finisher at state championships...Claimed AVCTL Division 4 400 crown in 2010, while taking ninth at state meet...Senior co-captain of KHSAA 4A state football champions...Also lettered in basketball...Named Kansas and Governor Scholar.

Historical Player Information

  • 2012-13Freshman

    Sprints
  • 2013-14Sophomore

    Sprints
  • 2014-15Junior

    Sprints
  • 2015-16Senior

    Sprints