Arizona: Will be a top competitor in the 10,000m and 5,000m… Was a consistent No. 1 or No. 2 runner during the 2001 cross country season… Team's top finisher at NCAA West Regional and NCAA Championships…Earned All-West Region honors placing 12th in the meet…Named to the first team Academic All-Pac-10… During 2001 track and field season, had a top 10,000m time of 30:18.51 at the Mt. SAC Relays… Pac-10 All-Academic second team… Clocked a time of 14:53.19 indoors in the 5000m at the Cannon IV Classic… The 2000 cross country season was the best of Cramer's collegiate career, as he was consistently amongst the team's top three runners and was the No. 1 runner in three races... Won the first cross country race of his collegiate career, taking the Purdue Invitational title in the first race of the season with a time of 25:23.4... Team's top finisher at the Notre Dame Invitational and Pre-NCAA Invitational in seventh (24:17) and 11th (31:17.9), respectively... Earned All-West Region honors with a 16th-place finish (31:17) at the meet in Fresno, Calif... Placed 96th at the NCAA Championships... Academic All-Pac-10 second team... Ran the team's top 10,000m time of the 2000 track and field season, 29:46.16, at the Stanford Invitational.. That time provisionally qualified him for the NCAA Outdoor Championships, but was not quite quick enough to get him into the field... Finished ninth in the 10k at the Pac-10 meet, running 30:38.21... Ran 14:22.76 in the 5000m at the Mt. SAC Relays... Second team Academic All-Pac-10 honoree... Competed as the team's No. 5-6 runner and had good success late in the 1999 cross country season... Ran superbly at the NCAA Championships, finishing as the team's No. 3 runner, 74th overall in 31:49.40... Was the team's No. 5 finisher at the NCAA West Regional, placing 22nd overall, and was 14th at the Pacific-10 Conference Championships, helping the Wildcats to the title... Showed a lot of promise late in the 1999 track and field season, finishing fourth in the 10,000m at the Pac-10 Championships in 30:22.30... The conference meet marked the first time he ran a 10k on the track... Ran 14:35.83 in the 5000m at the UA-ASU-NAU double-dual meet, and was slightly over a half-second off qualifying for the Pac-10 meet in that event... Stepped up at the end of the 1998 cross country season to become a solid No. 5 runner for the... Finished 32nd in 24:58 at the Pac-10 Championships and was 45th at the NCAA West Regional (32:34)... Finished 106th, the UA's No. 4 runner at the NCAA Championships in 32:12.90... Finished 11th in 26:05 at the Aztec Invitational early in the season... Ran in all eight meets for the Wildcats... Redshirted during the 1998 track and field and 1997 cross country seasons for the Wildcats... Earned Mary P. Roby Academic Achievement Award... Was a Mary P. Roby Distinguished Scholar…
High School: Attended Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Ariz... Lettered twice in both cross country and track and field for coaches Rick Gilder and Craig Gilbert... Team captain and MVP in 1997... All-Class 5A South Region for cross country in 1996... All-state track and field athlete in 1997, as well…
Personal: Michael Christian Cramer... Born July 26, 1979, in Tucson, Ariz... Son of Larry and Martha Cramer of Tucson... Majoring in chemical engineering with a minor in Spanish at UA.
