David Rhodes '21 Recruiting Profile

My major goal is to not only compete in college, but truly make a difference on a team. I'm someone who puts in the work and gives their all at every single meet and practice. I'm a teammate who encourages the other guys and really bring out the best in them.  I'm someone who genuinely gets excited when my teammates have a great race. My core values are hard work, honesty and integrity. I am a person, whom you can rely on to do the right thing when no one is watching. I take my honesty and integrity seriously, because I know that it is a major foundation of any successful team. Athletically, I work very hard to achieve my goals, even if I'm not the fastest guy in the state. I started running track, when I was in the 9th grade, and truly fell in love with running, specifically the 800, and decided I wanted to run distance. I ran my first season of cross country, my sophomore year and ran a PR of 18:28. In my sophomore track season, I started running a 2:19 and finished the season running a 2:09 in the 800. I ran distance events for the first time, I ran a 10:54 in the 3200 and a 4:53 in the 1 mile. I'm someone who works very hard to achieve their goals, which I credit all my success to my excellent coaches as well as teammates that push me past my limits each and everyday.  Academically, I have excelled in school and I would like to major in either Journalism or Sports Management in college. I am someone who believes academics is above athletics, I take the student part of student-athlete very seriously.  I'm someone you would want as a teammate as well as a person on your team.