2007 Connie S. Maniatty Award - Male
ALL-AMERICAN
2006-07 Season: Member of 4x800m team that captured first Columbia Championship of America victory at Penn Relays since 1938 (7:22.64), breaking the school record by nearly three seconds...earned All-America honors at NCAA Outdoor Championships in 400m, crossing in school record 45.40 and finishing third...placed third at NCAA Regionals with time of 45.83 in 400m; part of 4x400m relay team that set new school record (3:11.87)...earned 2007 Outdoor Heps Male Performer of the Meet, after capturing the 400m (47.46), sweeping all eight Heps 400m events (indoor and outdoor) in his career; won 200m with time of 21.31; member of 4x100m relay team that set new school record (41.37), placing fourth; also part of 4x400m relay that captured title at Outdoor Heps with a combined time of 3:12.93...finished second in 400m at Miami Elite Invitational in 45.99...ran the 200m in 21.16 at ECAC Championships to qualify for NCAA Regionals...placed third in 400m at Auburn Invitational (46.17)...ran the 800m in 1:51.69, capturing first place at George Mason Invitational...earned All-America honors after placing sixth at NCAA Indoor Championships (46.48)...set a new school, Ivy League and meet record at Indoor Heps in 400m, running in 46.34, earning first team conference honors; became the first male runner in Ivy League history to win the same event four years in a row at Indoor Heps...member of distance medley relay team that took third at Indoor Heps with time of 9:55.06...won the 400m at Valentine Invitational, crossing in 46.76...captured the 400m title at the Metropolitan Championships, crossing in 47.42...set the school record in 500m at Yale-Dartmouth Tri-Meet with time of 1:02.51.
2005-06: Won the 2006 Outdoor Heps Performer of the Meet award when he ran the fastest Ivy League time ever and a personal best 46.12 to win his third consecutive 400m outdoor title ... 46.12 was the fourth fastest time in Heps history (the meet record is held by a Navy student-athlete) ... finished 17th at the NCAA Championships, missing the semifinals by .01 ... missed the Indoor NCAA Championships due to illness and was sidelined for three weeks ... won the Indoor Heps 400m title in 47.07 ... won the 400m at the GMU Invite ... finished fourth at the New Balance meet in 47.08 ... won the IC4A title in 47.07 ... placed fifth in the East Regional with a 46.65.
2004-05: Solidified his reputation as a “clutch” performer, running his personal best at the NCAA East Regionals to qualify for the NCAA Championships ... his 46.24 time ranked 23rd nationally, heading into the NCAA Outdoor Championships ... won both the Indoor and Outdoor Heps 400m titles ... placed fourth at the NCAA East Regional ... won the 400 titles at the IC4A and Indoor Metropolitan Championships ... won the NYU by more than 1.54 seconds (47.45) ... won the Dartmouth tri-meet (48.54) ... ran 47.52 to win the 400m title at the Larry Ellis Invitational
2003-04: Dramatic development over the course of his first season made him a force to be reckoned with nationally in the 400 meters ... ran 48.54 to take third in the Met Championships, setting a Columbia indoor record ... became the first Columbia runner to win the 400 at the Heptagonal Ivy Indoor Championships when he again ran 48.54, and helped the Lions’ distance medley relay to a silver medal ... won the IC4A Championships in a school-record-setting 48.25 ... ran 47.61 for first place in the Princeton-Rutgers meet ... ran on the 4x400 which won at Army’s Dick Shea Invitational, and was second in the Penn Relays college section with a 9:50.34 DMR ... at the outdoor Heptagonals, he won the 400 in 47.22, breaking Fred “Fritz” Schlereth’s Columbia outdoor record of 47.54, set 50 years earlier, in 1954! ... capped the meet by anchoring the 4x400 to first place in the final event, in 3:11.97; the double wins earned him ECAC Track Athlete of the Week ... ran 46.96 at the NCAA’s to finish seventh in his heat, 20th of 26 overall -- the fastest freshman 400 meter runner in the NCAA Championships.
At Matawan Regional H.S.: Ten letters in spring and winter track, and cross-country ... captained both track teams, and was All-Shore both as a junior and senior ... ran several events as a senior, but was particularly effective in the 400 meters outdoors ... was undefeated in the event in six dual meets and the Monmouth County, conference, sectional, and State Group II championship meets ... finally lost in state’s Meet of Champions, finishing fourth ... had been third in Meet of Champions indoors, and ninth in the event as a junior ... earned four gold medals at the sectionals and three more at the State Group II Championships ... led the Huskies to two conference track championships and the 2002 state sectional cross-country championship ... four years on the Merit Roll.
Personal Information: Economics major ... Erison George Hurtault, b. 12-29-84 in Edison, N.J.
