Selvin Backert
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- Height:
- 6-1
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- Weight:
- 155
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- Hometown:
- Lexington, Mass.
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- Year:
- So.
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- High School:
- Lexington
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- Major:
- Regional & Globalization
Bio
• Also a member of Suffolk's men's cross country and outdoor track & field teams
PERSONAL RECORDS
200: 24.98, at Joe Donahue Games, Dec. 11, 2021
400: 53.74, at Joe Donahue Games, Dec. 11, 2021
800: 1:58.76, at Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invite, Feb. 5, 2022
1000: 2:38.35, at Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener, Dec. 4, 2021
SOPHOMORE • 2021-22
GNAC Champion in the 800 ... Member of the GNAC Champion 4x400 Relay Team ... Two-time All-GNAC (800, 4x400) ... Made his indoor debut in the 1000 (2:38.35) at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener (Dec. 4) ... Finished third in the 400 (53.78) and 12th in the 200 (24.98) at the Joe Donahue Games (Dec. 11) ... Ran the 800 (1:58.76) at the Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invite (Feb. 5) ... Won the 800 (1:58.86) and was a member of the winning 4x400 relay team (3:30.51) at the GNAC Championships (Feb. 13) ... Placed fifth in the 800 (2:06.87) at Wheaton's Pre-Post Season Invitational (Feb. 19) ... Competed on the 4x400 (3:33.31) and distance medley relay teams (11:04.76) at the New England Division III Men's Indoor Championships (Feb. 26).
FRESHMAN • 2020-21
Season cancelled due to COVID-19.
ACADEMICS
GNAC All-Academic Team honoree in 2021-22 ... Four-time AD Honor Roll selection (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022).
BEFORE SUFFOLK • LEXINGTON
Attended Lexington.
News mentions
For the first time since 2020, Suffolk men’s and women’s indoor track & field will compete at NCAA Division III New Englands this weekend. The men’s meet will take place at Middlebury in Middlebury, Vermont, while the women head to Colby’s Indoor Competition Center in Waterville, Maine.
Seven different student-athletes competed across six different events at New Englands over the weekend at Middlebury.
Tim Barry earned his spot at New Englands over the weekend at the Wheaton Pre-Post Season Invite.
Fresh off Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championships, the Suffolk men’s and women’s indoor track & field team will send a small number of Rams to the Wheaton Pre-Postseason Invitational Saturday, Feb. 19 at 2:30 p.m.
Suffolk men’s indoor track & field captured the inaugural Great Northeast Athletic Conference Championship two years ago and got the jump done again today as the Rams coasted past is five conference counterparts to hoist the trophy for the second time in as many years the event has been held Sunday evening at Boston University’s Track & Tennis Center.
Suffolk men’s indoor track & field logged some of the best performances in New England Saturday when the Rams took their talents to Boston University’s Bruce Lehane Scarlet & White Invite.
Select members of the Suffolk men’s and women’s indoor track & field teams will head across town Saturday, Feb. 5 to participate at Boston University’s Bruce Lehane Scarlet & White Invite.
Suffolk indoor track & field will divide its team for the upcoming weekend. The Rams runners will compete at Boston University’s John Thomas Terrier Classic with the women’s event on tap for Friday, Jan. 28 and the men’s event running Sunday, Jan. 29, while the blue-and-gold field athletes will participate at Tufts’ Branwen Smith-King Invitational Sunday, Jan. 29.
Suffolk men’s indoor track & field wrapped up the 2021 portion of its schedule at Northeastern’s Joe Donahue Games Saturday at the Reggie Lewis Center. A dozen Rams made debuts in various events with nearly a half dozen notching a personal-record.
Suffolk men’s indoor track & field competed for the first time in nearly two years when it began its 2021-22 calendar at Boston University’s Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener.
Suffolk men’s and women’s indoor track & field teams will begin its 2021-22 campaign across town to Boston University for the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener Saturday, Dec. 4.