Marcus Gillespie

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Class:
Junior
Event:
Hurdles
Hometown:
Dayton, Ohio
High School:
Kettering Fairmont
Concentration:
History | Religious Studies

Full Results on TFRRS

2023-2024 Indoor: Academic All-Ivy selection…Second Team All-Ivy…Ran the second fastest 60-meter hurdle time in school history with a 7.93.

2021 Outdoor: Finished third and ran a personal best of 11.55 in the 100m at the Ocean State Invitational … Also placed second in the 4x100 (43.07) at the Ocean State Invitational.

2020-21 Indoor: Season canceled due to COVID-19.

Before Brown: Competed in indoor and outdoor track & field at Kettering Fairmont High School and Stebbins High School … Ran a 14.26 in the 110m hurdles in 2019 … Recorded a time of 8.09 in the 60m hurdles in 2020 … Three-time All-Conference selection in the outdoor 110m hurdles … District Runner-Up in 2018 and 2019 … Regional Champion in 2019 … Placed eighth in States in 2019 … Named Team MVP in 2018 … New Balance Nationals Outdoor Championship Division qualifier in 2019 … Selected to the MileSplit US First Team … Stebbins High School Record Holder in the 110m hurdles … Fairmont High School Record Holder in the triple jump … Four-time Indoor State qualifier in the 60m hurdles in (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) … Finished fourth in the state indoor 60m hurdles in 2020 … Three-time New Balance Nationals Indoors qualifier (2018, 2019, 2020) … Named MileSplit US Second Team (2018) and MileSplit US First Team (2019, 2020) … Stebbins Indoor Record Holder in the 55m hurdles, 60m hurdles, triple jump, long jump and high jump … Fairmont Indoor Record Holder in the 55m hurdles, 60m hurdles, triple jump, long jump and high … Also competed for the Northwest Track Club ... Five-time USATF Jr. Olympic Nationals and USATF Youth Nationals qualifier … Member of the Scholar Athlete Society, the National Honor Society and the Mathematics Honor Society … Received the Scholar Athlete Award … Earned the OHSAA Scholar Athlete Award in 2020 … Named All-Ohio & Academic All-Ohio in 2019 … Fairmont Athletic Boosters Scholarship recipient … Member of the Fairmont Student-Athlete Leadership Academy … Member of the Society of Academic Excellence and the Tri-M National Music Honor Society … Received the Kettering Fairmont Underclass Academic Excellence Award and the Cincinnati Reds – Straight A Student Award … Member of Mu Alpha Theta and Psi Alpha … Four-year Honor Roll Student … International Baccalaureate Diploma recipient … Named to the SHS Academic Team.

Personal: Son of Tina and Eric Gillespie … His father, Eric, played football at The Citadel … Has one sibling, Aaron, who attended Columbia ’19 … Plans to concentrate in Computer Science.