Columbia University Athletics

2021-22 (Junior): (XC) Clocked a season best 8K time of 29:49.7 at the Mets Cross Country Championships (Oct. 8) in lone race of the season ... (ITF) Did not compete in any events ... (OTF) Did not compete in any events.

2020-21 (Sophomore): (XC) Season canceled (COVID-19)

2019-20 (First-Year): (XC) Ran a time of 26:11.1 at the Paul Short Run (Oct. 5) in first collegiate race ... Recorded best finish of the season, 45th, at the Princeton Cross Country Invitational (Oct. 19) clocking a time of 25:02.3 in the 8K ... Clocked a time of 26:19.1 to finish 58th in the 5-Mile Run at the Ivy League Cross Country Heps (Nov. 1) ... Finished in 32:43.8 in the 10K at the Northeast Regionals (Nov. 15) ... (ITF) Did not compete in any events ... (OTF) Season canceled.

High School: Won 12 letters in cross country and indoor and outdoor track at Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts ... 2019 New Balance Indoor All-American ... Two-time Foot Locker Cross Country National Championships Qualifier ... Cross country team captain from 2018-19 ... Named to the Boston Globe All-Scholastic team in 2017 and 2018.

Personal: Born, Lucas Alejandro Aramburu, on May 2, 2001 in Manhattan, New York ... Son of Alvaro Jose Aramburu and Sarah Beckjord ... Has one sibling, Tomas (22) ... Mother, who graduated from Harvard in 1984, earned her Phd at Columbia, graduating in 2001 and she also worked as a graduate professor at Columbia ... Father is a philosophy professor and mother is a Spanish professor ... A founding member of Students Against Institutional Racism ... Enjoys watching Planet Earth to relax before big races ... Can play the guitar ... Conan O'Brien attended same high school ... Decided to attend Columbia because "I was born here and wanted to come back, plus the campus feeling in the middle of the city is amazing" ... Enrolled in Columbia College ... Plans on majoring in either Economics or Foreign Relations. 

Career Bests

10K (XC) - 32:43.8
NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Cross Country Championships - Nov. 15, 2019
5M (XC) - 26:19.1
Ivy League Cross Country Heps - Nov. 1, 2019
8K (XC) - 25:02.3
Princeton Cross Country Invitational - Oct. 19, 2019

High School Personal Bests:

3,200m - 9:13
One-Mile - 4:18
800m - 1:55