Todd Gulizia Season 2010-11

Personal Bests

Indoor
Mile, 4:16.31

3,000m, 8:25.31

5,000m, 14:49.71 (14:38.94-oversized)

Outdoor
1,500m, 3:57.49
3,000m, 8:30.30
5,000m, 14:47.14
10,000m, 31:39.24

Honors
First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (2009, 2010)

2010 (Junior/Sophomore)
Todd Gulizia (pronounced GUH-lizt-EE-uh) set three personal bests during the indoor season... started by breaking his previous best of 15:00.51 in the 5K at the adidas Classic with a time of 14:49.71... improved his 3K time two weeks later with a 8:25.31 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... bettered his mile time by over a second at the Nebraska Tune Up with a time of 4:16.31... set two more personal bests during the outdoor season... trimmed his 5K time to 14:47.14 at the Kanas Relays... cut nearly five seconds off his 10K time the next week at the Drake Relays with a time of 31:39.24.

2009 (Sophomore/Redshirt Freshman)

Gulizia started 2009 slow as he was still recovering from a back injury that he suffered during the 2008 cross country season... opened the year at the Holiday Inn Invitational, running a time of 8:55.26 in the 3,000 meters... cut his time down to 8:31.88 by the end of the season to finish first at the Nebraska Tune-Up... posted a season-best time of 15:07.99 in the 5,000 meters at the Tyson Invitational to finish third... ran the 1,500, 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 meters during the outdoor season, setting personal bests in all four races... set a personal best of 8:30.80 in the 3,000 meters at the Jim Click Shootout... posted a time of 3:57.49 in the 1,500 meters one week later at the Nebraska Invitational... shaved more than two seconds off his previous best of 14:52.84 in the 5,000 meters six days later at the John McDonnell Invitational with a time of 14:50.04... improved his 10,000-meter best of 32:18.90 at the Drake Relays with a seventh-place time of 31:44.35.

 

2008 (Freshman)

Gulizia started his collegiate career with a fifth-place finish in the mile at the Holiday Inn Invitational (4:23.49)...  shaved six seconds off his previous time at the Prairie Wolf Invitational to run a personal best of 4:17.98 to finish fourth... ran a personal-best time of 8:25.68 in the 3,000 meters at the Conference Challenge, ranking 21st all-time at Nebraska indoors... posted a personal-best time of 15:00.51 in the 5,000 meters at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational to finish fifth and record the No. 16 all-time mark indoors at NU... competed once outdoors at the Stanford Invitational in the 10,000 meters (32:18.90)... missed the rest of the outdoor season with mononucleosis and was granted a medical hardship.

 

Before Nebraska (Millard South HS)

The 2007 Nebraska Gatorade Track and Field Athlete of the Year, Gulizia swept the All-Class gold medals by winning the Class A titles in both the 1,600 (4:18.84) and 3,200 (9:16.36) under coaches Scot Rainbolt and Dustin Llewellyn... saved his best performance for his final high school race at the Nike Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro, N.C., where he ran a time of 9:07.90 in the two mile (the second-best performance in Nebraska prep history)... placed fourth in the Class A 1,600 in 2006... was the silver medalist in the 3,200 in 2006 and finished seventh in 2005... earned Nebraska Class A and All-Class gold medals at the 2006 state cross country championships... chose Nebraska over Oklahoma and Kansas.

 

Personal

Parents are AJ and Jolene Gulizia... born Aug. 10, 1988... major is international business.