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Dalton Hengst
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- York, Pa.
- High School:
- Commonwealth Charter Academy
Bio
Personal Records
Cross Country
- 6k: 18:10.5 (2020)
- 8k: 23:40.2 (2019)
- 10k: 31:49.1 (2019)
- 4-mile: 19:40.7 (2021)
- 5-mile: 24:44.8 (2019)
Indoor Track
- 800m: 1:54.76 (HS)
- 1,000m: 2:25.30 (HS)
- Mile: 3:59.71 (2024) - School Record
- 3,000m: 8:05.26 (2021)
Outdoor Track
- 800m: 1:54.75 (HS)
- 1,500m: 3:42.09 (2023)
- 3,000mSC: 9:21.56 (2019)
SEC Scoring
Indoor Track
- 2024 - Mile - 5th - 4:01.91
- 2023 - Mile - 7th - 4:05.75
- 2021 - Mile - 7th - 4:04.36
Outdoor Track
- 2024 - 1,500m - 3rd - 3:43.51
- 2023 - 1,500m - 7th - 3:46.16
- 2019 - 1,500m - 5th - 3:50.47
HONORS
2024 TRACK & FIELD
Outdoor- Completed his final collegiate season as a bronze medalist in the SEC in the 1,500-meter and competed in three meets
- Claimed bronze at the SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships (5/11) with a 3:43.51 finish in the 1,500-meter
- Finished fifth in the mile at APP State Open (4/26) with a 4:06.61
- Opened the outdoor season by clocking in a 3:42.67 in the 1500-meter, which marked seventh on Tennessee's all-time list, at the Wake Forest Invite (4/19)
Indoor
- Saw action in six meets for his first indoor season with the Vols and finished the year as UT's all-time performer in the men's mile
- Scored four points for the Vols in the mile at the SEC Indoor Championships (2/24), finishing fifth overall in 4:01.91
- Led the DMR at the Alex Wilson Invitational (2/17) and helped the team finish eighth with a time of 9:28.17, which ranked No. 2 in school history
- Became the first Vol to break four minutes in the mile at the Music City Challenge (2/9), blazing across the finish in a personal-best 3:59.71 to secure first place and set the school record
- Competed at the John Thomas Terrier Classic (1/26) and finished 21st in the mile with a time 4:00.58
- Placed second in the mile at the Commodore Challenge (1/13) with a time of 4:02.14
- Made his Tennessee debut at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener (12/2), running the 3k and posting a time of 8:06.77
PRIOR TO TENNESSEE
- Spent the first five years of his collegiate career at Ole Miss (2018-23) before transferring to UT in the fall of 2023
- Five-time SEC track & field finalist in the indoor mile (twice) and outdoor 1,500m (three times)
- Ran a personal-best 1,500m of 3:42.09 at the Virginia Challenge in April 2023
- His mile PR of 4:04.11 was clocked at the Razorback Invitational in January 2023
- Owns a career-best of 8:05.26 in the indoor 3k, set at the Music City Challenge in February 2021
- Three-time NCAA East Prelims qualifier in the 1,500m who punched his ticket to nationals as a rookie in 2019
- Won SEC Co-Freshman of the Year honors during the 2019 outdoor season
- Helped the Rebels win a pair of SEC cross country team titles in 2018 and 2019
HIGH SCHOOL
- Four-year letterwinner and three-time team captain in cross country and track at McDonogh School in Baltimore County, Maryland
- Set school records in the mile (4:08), 3.200m (8:56) and 5k (14:42)
- Competed at the 2018 USATF Junior Outdoor Championships and finished 4th in the 1,500m with a mark of 3:50.70
- Ran school-record 5k of 14:42 at the Drake Relays outdoors his senior year
- Took third in the indoor mile at New Balance Nationals in 2018, running a time 4:09.10
- Finished 24th at Foot Locker Nationals his senior cross country season in 2017
- Won the Penn Relays mile title as a junior in 2017 in 4:09
- Ran high school career-best 4:08 in the mile to finish fourth at the indoor New Balance Nationals in 2017
- Finished 21st at Foot Locker Nationals cross country meet as a junior in 2016
- Finished seventh in the indoor mile at New Balance Nationals in 2016
- Won a pair of New Balance Nationals Freshman titles in 2015 in the indoor mile and outdoor two-mile
- Also earned one varsity letter in soccer as a freshman
PERSONAL
- Son of Nikki and Eric Hengst
- Currently pursuing his master's degree in Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication
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