ATHLETE RESUME
*Photo courtesy of Steve Phillips.
Erik van Ingen
(607) 725-1448 Cell
Personal Best Performances
800 1:49.17 (2012 Outdoor)
1000 2:21.28 (2011 Indoor)
1500 3:38.06 (2012 Outdoor)
Mile 3:56.37 (2012 Indoor)
3K 7:56.21 (2012 indoor)
Top Honors and Awards
Four time NCAA Division 1 First Team All-American Indoor Mile 2011 (5th) 2012 (7th) Outdoor 1500 2011 (6th) 2012 (8th)
2011 Northeast Region Men’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year.
2009 & 2011 USATF Outdoor National Qualifier 1500m.
2012 USATF Olympic TeamTrials Qualifier 1500m.
2010 NCAA Indoor Mile National Qualifier, 11th place.
2009 & 2010 NCAA National Qualifier Cross Country, 43rd in 2010.
2009 & 2010 Northeast All-Region Cross Country, 7th & 12th place finishes.
All-East NCAA East Region 1500m Outdoor Track 2009 & 2011.
2011 America East Indoor Championships Men’s Most Outstanding Track Athlete.
America East Conference Champion: 2009 Cross Country.
America East Conference Champion: 2009 & 2011 1500m 2012 800m Outdoor Track.
America East Conference Champion: 2010 Indoor Mile, 2011 Indoor 1K & 5K 2012 Indoor 800m.
Binghamton University Male Athlete of the Year 2009-2010 & 2010-2011.
COACHING THOUGHTS
Erik has a number of strengths as an emerging elite USA miler. I feel his greatest strengths are his durability, vision, and mental focus. He is a very unique athlete and has an amazing passion for the sport of track and field. He is a true student of the sport.
Over the past four years Erik has never developed a major injury due to training. He has developed well with volume from 60-100 mile weeks. He can successfully manage 80-90 mile weeks along with one to two high intensity workouts and/or a competition. I believe we have managed his racing schedule well and he has not been over raced. The training philosophy at Binghamton is more quality than quantity and there is a serious focus on staying well balanced with regards to both training and life. He manages the stress of training and competition well and does a great job of taking good care of his body during and outside of training.
Erik has had great vision and mental focus while at Binghamton. He has successfully been able to achieve his goal of becoming an All-American and one of the top NCAA milers through a number of growing pains. He has successfully learned how to listen to his body with regards to training intelligently and has become extremely coachable over the years. While only running 4:19 for 1600m in high school, Erik was not the least bit unsure he couldn’t break 4:00 for the mile and become one of the top milers in the NCAA. He has the vision of becoming one of the USA’s top milers and an Olympian. I am confident he will continue to challenge himself in the same way at the post collegiate level. He is an extremely focused athlete both on and off the track. His priorities lie well within running and film.
REFERENCES
Mike Thompson
Director of Cross-Country/Track & Field
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902
Office (607) 777-4458
Cell (607) 349-9439
mthomps@binghamton.edu
Annette Acuff
Head Cross Country/Asst. Track & Field
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902
Office 607-777-2109
Cell 607-427-7888
aacuff@binghamton.edu
Todd James
Director of Athletics
Head Cross Country/Track & Field
Marathon Central School
Marathon, NY 13803
Office (607) 849-3223
Cell (607) 279-5931
tajpez0131@aol.com
*Photo courtesy of Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University.
