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2025 MIT Men's Cross Country Roster

Landon Hering

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Minnetonka, Minn.
  • High School Hopkins Senior

Biography

Collegiate Career Statistics (TFRRS) 


2024: 

  • Competed in four events, earning one top-twenty finishes 
  • Ran a career-best 25:53.5 8k to earn a 19th-place finish at the 2024 Connecticut College Invitational 
  • Competed at the 2024 NEWMAC Championships, placing 27th, running a 26:20.8 8k 

Before MIT: 

  • Graduated from Hopkins Senior High School 
  • Cross Country: Two-time All-State, two-time Academic All-State, three-time All-Conference 
  • Track and Field: All-State, two-time All-Conference, Mr. Track and Field nominee 
  • Cross Country: Eighth place at the state championship 
  • Track and Field: Eighth place in the 3200m at the state championship 
  • Team captain and five-time varsity letterwinner for both cross country and track and field 
  • National Honor Society 
  • National Merit finalist 
  • Summa Cum Laude, University of Minnesota Dean's List 
  • Math League captain 

Personal: 

  • Favorite Sports Memory: "Running my first 5k cross country race as an 8th grader on a muddy course in a race with over 900 people." 

Historical Player Information

  • 2024First Year

    6'0"
  • 2025Sophomore

    6'0"