Rutgers-Newark Athletics

NOTES: Record-setting triple jumper and member of several Raider relay units… owns R-N triple jump record both indoors (13.16 meters) and outdoors (12.91)… also set indoor long jumper mark (5.19).

JUNIOR (2009): Ran in three meets for the Raiders, capping his cross country season with a personal best 32:23.54 time on the 8K course at the CTC Championship (10/10)… finished 24th in a field of 69 in the 4K segment of the Stevens Invitational (9/25) with a clocking of 15:02.18. 

SOPHOMORE (2008): Ran in the CTC Championship, posting a time of 25:11.91 on the 6K course at Richard Stockton…. competed in both indoor and outdoor track & field.

FRESHMAN (2007): Competed in two meets for the inaugural men’s cross country team… clocked a 37:44.26 in the 8K at the Highlander Meet (10/7)… ran a 26:13.31 in the 6K at the CTC Championships (10/27). 

HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letterwinner in track at Absegami HS who set school triple jump mark in junior year, then bettered it as a senior… won regional title in the triple jump as a senior and helped school’s 4 x 400 relay team to berths in the state meet as a junior and senior… two-sport letterman who also earned team’s “most improved player” award while receiving three varsity letters for the Braves... academically, was an Honor Roll student.

PERSONAL: An academic senior at Rutgers-Newark who is in his third year of athletic competition… majoring in finance… only son of Angela and Michael Booker who has one older and one younger sister… his father played college basketball at Northern Illinois.

PERSONAL BESTS
8K: 32:29.27 at CTC Championship (Oct. 17, 2009)
6K: 25:11.91 at CTC Championship (Oct. 18, 2008)
4K: 15:02.18 at Stevens Invitational (Sept. 25, 2009)