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Aidan Rooney

  • Major History
  • Height 6-1
  • Events Distance
  • Class 2025
  • Hometown Bay Shore, N.Y.
  • High School Avon Old Farms (Conn.)

Biography

Results

2025

Outdoor Highlights:
Competed at the NESCAC Championship and placed ninth in the 800 meters in 1:54.23 (April 26).... Took fourth in the 800 meters in 1:54.99 at the UMASS Commonwealth Invitational (April 12).... Won the 800 meters in 1:56.29 and helped the Bates 4x400 relay team place sixth in 3:37.80 at the UMASS Flagship Opener (April 5).

Indoor Highlights: Earned All-Region honors in the Distance Medley Relay from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.... Helped the Bates Distance Medley Relay team place seventh in 9:58.01 at the Tufts Final Qualifier (March 8).... Helped the Bates 4x800 relay team take fourth in 7:46.65 and took 10th in the 800 meters in a career-best time of 1:53.34 at the New England Division III Indoor Championship (Feb. 28-March 1).... Ran a career-best time of 4:14.75 in the mile at the Valentine Invitational (Feb. 14-15).... Helped Bates win the 4x800 relay in 8:09.08 and took fourth individually in the 800 meters in 1:55.15 at the Maine State Meet (Feb. 8).... Took third in the mile in 4:23.19 at the Bates Invitational (Jan. 18).... Placed eighth in the mile in 4:20.76 at the Suffolk Relays (Jan. 11).

2024

Outdoor Highlights: 
Helped Bates win the NESCAC title in the 4x800 relay in 7:41.80 (April 27).... Took fourth in the 800 meters in 1:56.12 at the Maine State Classic (April 19-20).... Ran a carer-best time of 4:16.25 in the mile at the Friar Invitational (April 12).... Placed third in the 800 meters in 1:57.94 at the Wesleyan Swanson Invite (March 23).

Indoor Highlights: Took third place in the 800 meters in 2:02.05 at the Brandeis Reggie Poyau Memorial Meet (Jan. 13).

2023

Outdoor Highlights:
Placed fifth in the 1,500 meters in 3:52.50 at the New England Division III Championships, the sixth fastest time in Bates history.... Helped Bates win the 4x800 relay at New Englands in 7:50.30 (May 4-6).... Helped the 4x800 relay team earn All-NESCAC honors with a third-place showing of 7:56.86 at the NESCAC Championships (April 29).... Won the 800 meters in 1:56.61 and helped Bates win the 4x400 relay in 3:30.61 at the Maine State Classic (April 22).... Placed second in the 1,500 meters in 3:58.26 at the UMASS Commonwealth Invitational (April 15).... Took fifth in the 800 meters in 1:56.25 at the RPI Tri-Meet (April 8).... Finished second in the 1,500 meters in 4:02.73 at the Bates College Quad Meet (April 1).

Indoor Highlights: Earned All-Region honors with the Distance Medley Relay team.... Helped the Distance Medley Relay team place second at the New England Division III Championships in 9:59.32, the ninth fastest DMR in Bates History.... Placed 11th in the 800 meters in 1:54.64 at New Englands, the ninth fastest 800 meters in Bates history (Feb. 24-25).... Won the mile in a personal-record time of 4:21.09 at the Lynn Ruddy Invitational (Feb. 18).... Helped Bates win the 4x800 relay in 8:14.20 and placed third in the 600 meters in 1:25.50 at the Maine State Meet (Feb. 4).... Finished eighth in the mile in 4:29.13 at the Bates Invitational (Jan. 21).

2022

Outdoor Highlights:
Helped Bates place second in the 4x800 relay in 7:53.99 at the New England Division III Championships (May 5-7).... Helped Bates place sixth in the 4x800 relay in 7:59.99 and ran a season-best time of 1:55.92 in the 800 meters at the NESCAC Championships (April 30).... Placed third in the 800 meters (1:56.02) and helped Bates win the 4x400 relay in 3:26.99 at the Maine State Classic (April 23).... Won the 800 meters in 2:00.07 and helped Bates place second in the 4x400 relay in 3:33.05 at the Bates Quad Meet (April 2).

Indoor Highlights: Earned All-Region honors in the distance medley relay from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.... Placed eighth in the 1000 meters in 2:34.65 and helped Bates place fourth in the distance medley relay in 10:13.47 at the New England Division III Championships (Feb. 25-26).... Placed second in the 800 meters (1:57.91) and helped Bates win the 4x800 relay in 8:18.60 at the Lynn Ruddy Invitational (Feb. 18-19).... Ran a season-best time in the 1000 meters of 2:31.90 at the Valentine Invitational (Feb. 11-12).... Helped Bates win the distance medley relay in 10:42.35 and placed fourth in the 600 meters (1:25.39) at the Bates Invitational (Jan. 22).... Placed second in the 800 meters in 2:00.57 at the MIT Tri-Meet (Jan. 15).

Personal: 2021 graduate of Avon Old Farms School (Conn.) where he competed in cross country and squash.
 
Favorite book? The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would it be? Nikola Tesla
Skill or hobby you've always wanted to learn? How to do a backflip
Most influential person in your life? My father
Movie you could watch over and over? The Big Short
If you could swap lives with any celebrity for a day, who would it be? David Solomon

Historical Player Information

  • 2022First Year

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  • 2025Senior

    6'1" 205 lbs