Matt Haffner

SR • Distance • Pleasant Hill, Mo.

Enters his fourth season in the PSU program… a talented distance runner who is expected to redshirt in 2011 due to injury… recorded a career best 8:55 in the 3000m, finishing 18th at the 2009 MIAA Championships… redshirted his initial year with the Gorillas… also a two-time All-MIAA performer in cross country… placed eighth overall at the 2010 MIAA Championships… earned honorable mention All-MIAA honors with a 20th-place showing in 2009… helped PSU to a pair of NCAA-II National Championships appearances in 2008-09… In High School: The Missouri Class 2A state runner-up in the 5000m as a sophomore at Pleasant Hill High… Personal: Born March 28, 1989… son of Mike and Teresa Haffner… a member of the MIAA All-Academic Team and the MIAA Academic Honor Roll…  has a 3.85 GPA as a dual geography and mathematics major.