Adam Backsmeier

Mid-Distance
Graduated Senior
Bloomington, Ill. (Normal-West)

2008:  Finished 19th in the 800-meter run (2:22.48) at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship.

2005-07:  Attended Carthage but did not participate in track and field.

High School:  Four-year member of the track and field team…four-year member of the soccer team as a goal keeper and set school season records for most saves and most consecutive shutouts…played basketball his freshman and sophomore years…Illinois High School Association “scholar-athlete,” Big 12 Conference all-academic, National Merit Scholar, German National Honors Society member and honor student.

Personal:  Physics major…played on the 2004 Carthage junior varsity soccer team and ran on the 2007 Carthage men’s cross country team…named twice to the Carthage dean’s list and named to the fall 2004 Carthage athletic director’s honor roll…born Dec. 2, 1985.