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Bentley University

2016-17 Men's Track and Field

Erik Alatalo

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Wilmington, Mass.
  • Highschool Wilmington

Biography

2013 graduate of Wilmington High School … outstanding student who is majoring in both accountancy and liberal studies, with a concentration in global perspectives … minors in finance and gender studies … Before Bentley: was a cross country and track team captain at Wilmington … Middlesex League all-star … Personal: age as of Sept. 1: 21 … son of Judy and Dave Alatalo … has two younger twin siblings, Sam (20) and Rachel (20) … High School Salutatorian … Trustees’ Scholarship … Beta Gamma Sigma (Bentley Honor Society) … President of Bentley’s Colleges Against Cancer … first-year seminar instructor … is a tutor in the Writing Center … Beta Alpha Psi Accounting Society … has accepted a position as an assurance associate at PwC.

CROSS COUNTRY

2015: USTFCCCA Division II All-Academic … selected Academic All-Northeast-10 … for the second straight year, placed among the Falcons’ top seven in every race he ran … first Bentley runner to the finish line at the New Englands, placing 72nd overall in 25:49.7 … 32nd overall, an improvement of 33 places from the previous season, at the Northeast-10 Championships … that was fifth best among Bentley athletes … 34th overall and sixth among Bentley runners in the NCAA Division II East Regional (32:46.98) … 2014: was one of Bentley’s top seven in all six meets he participated in … was 65th overall and sixth among Falcons in the Northeast-10 Championships, finishing in 30:22 … 89th overall in the NCAA Division II East Region with his time of 34:49.94 seventh among Bentley runners … fifth among Bentley student-athletes and 190th overall at the New Englands (26:49.8) … 2013: ran in five of the team’s six races and finished among the team’s top three five times … 60th in Northeast-10 Championships (27:33) … 82nd overall, and sixth among Bentley runners, in the NCAA Division II East Regional, covering the 10,000 meters in 34:40.9 ... 204th overall in the New Englands … Bentley’s number one finisher in the Codfish Bowl, placing 36th overall in 27:22 … in collegiate debut, was 21st in the Shacklette Invitational.

TRACK

Bentley Rankings: 12th in outdoor 2-mile (9:53.23 at 2015 Stonehill Skyhawk Invitational, converted from 3,000) … 12th in indoor 5,000 (15:09.55, 2016 Northeast-10 Championships) … Indoor Bests: 4:30.96 mile (2014 BU Valentine’s), 9:00.51 3,000 (2016 GBTC Invitational), 15:09.55 5,000 (2016 Northeast-10 Championships) … Outdoor Bests: 4:14.50 1500 (2014 MIT Sean Collier Invitational), 9:09.44 3,000 (2015 Stonehill Skyhawk Invitational), 15:36.67 5,000 (2015 MIT Sean Collier Invitational), 32:19.83 10,000 (2015 Northeast-10 Championships) … 2015-16: finished third in the 5,000 in the Northeast-10 Indoor Championships (15:09.55) … a week later, was 15th in the same event at the New Englands (15:15.63) … selected for Academic All-NE-10 honors indoors … outdoors, was eighth in the 10,000 at the NE-10’s (33:21.81) … 2014-15: ran to a fifth-place finish in the 10,000 at the outdoor Northeast-10 Championships (32:19.83) … indoors, was 12th in the NE-10’s in the 5,000 (15:56.83) … 21st in the 10K at the outdoor New Englands (33:07.26) … runner-up in the 5,000 at the Stonehill Skyhawk (9:09.44) … earned Academic All-Northeast-10 honors outdoors and was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 1 team … 2013-14: 10th in 10,000 at outdoor Northeast-10 Championships, finishing in 34:32.89 … 12th in 5,000 at indoor NE-10’s (15:57.88).

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Historical Player Information

  • 2013-14Freshman

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