Ben Reifenberg
Ben Reifenberg

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Fort Wayne, Ind.
High School:
Bishop Dwenger
Event:
Distance

2010-11: Battled injuries for a majority of the year ... Finished sixth in the 5K at the Horizon League Outdoor Championship with time of 15:09.41 ... Made first appearance of the season the previous weekend, running a 15:12.07 in the 5K at the Stan Lyons Invitational ... Did not compete during the cross country or indoor track seasons.

2009-10 Second Team All-Horizon League honoree after finishing eighth (25:57) at the Horizon League Championship ... Finished sixth out of 408 runners at the Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational ... Finished fifth at the DePaul Opener, covering the four-mile course in a time of 20:32 ... Took 56th place at the NCAA Midwest Regional Meet with a 10K time of 32:39 ... Did not compete during the track season.

2008-09: Finished ninth in the 3000m (8:32.92) at the Horizon League Championships...took seventh place at the League Cross Country Championships 8K with a time of 25:37...placed fifth at the Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational, finishing with a time of 25:01...finished second in the DePaul Opener four-mile race (20:50) and the Crusader Invitational 6K (19:35)...finished ninth at the Illinois Intercollegiate Championships with a time of 25:09...took 67th at the NCAA Midwest Regional 8K...took fifth in the 1000m (2:33.55) and eighth in the 3000m (8:51.97) at the Notre Dame Indoor Opener...took fourth place in the 3,000m at the Illinois Invitational with a time of 8:41.01...took second place in the 5000m at the Chicagoland Championships with a time of 14:55.84...finished 20th in the 1500m (3:52.93) and 42nd in the 800m (1:56.46) at the Georgia Tech Invitational.

2007-08: Recipient of Loyola's Tom O'Hara Award and Newcomer of the Year Award...placed first (4:17.42) in the indoor mile at the ISU Classic...part of the McCabe-Headrick-Pugliese-Reifenberg indoor distance medley relay team that finished second (10:08.86) at the Horizon League Championships...won the outdoor 5000m (15:02.42) at the Dave Rankin Invitational...led team with a ninth-place finish (4:00.92) in the 1500m at the UNC Invitational...placed fifth (3:56.62) in the outdoor 1500m at the League Championships...earned All-League First Team honors after leading the Ramblers at the League Cross Country Championships, finishing in sixth with a personal-best time of 25:48.

High School: Earned a trio of all-state honors in track and field in the 4x800m relay in 2005, the 4x800m and 4x1600m relays in 2006 and 4x1600m relay in 2007...team state cross country qualifiers in 2005 and 2006...high school conference champions in 2005 and 2006...posted a personal-best time of 15:35 in the 5K and 1:55 in the 800m...member of the National Honor Society... ranked in the top 20% of his class all four years...four-year letterwinner in wrestling...earned all-state honors in wrestling in 2007...named individual conference champion in wrestling in 2007.