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2018-19 Track and Field Roster

Gustavs Kehris

  • Position Middle Distance
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Riga, Latvia
  • High School American School of the Hague

Biography

2016 & 2018 Pac-12 First-Team All-Academic
2019 CoSIDA Academic All-Americam

Personal Best Marks

Indoors:
400-meter race – 51.12 (Lumberjack Team Challenge 1/16/16)
800-meter race – 1:54.47 (Don Kirby Invite 2/11/17)
Outdoors:
800-meter race – 1:51.96 (Jim Click Shootout 4/7/18)
1500-meter run - 4:01.43 (Willie Williams Classic 3/17/18)
 
2018
Indoor: Competed in five 800-meter races ... Posted a season's best time of 1:54.37 at the MPSF Championships.
Outdoor: Appeared in six meetings ... Posted a PR in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:01.43 ... Clocked a time of 1:53.25 in the 800-meter run at the Willie William classic ... Ran a time of 1:53.42 in the 800-meter run at the Aztec Invitational ... Ran a PR in the 800-meter run at the Jim Click Shootout with a time of 1:51.96.

2017
Indoors: Competed in four 800-meter contests … Set a career low mark of 1:54.47 at the Don Kirby Invite …
Outdoors: Did not compete in the outdoor season …

2016: Indoors, Kehris ran in the 400 and 800-meter races during the 2016 indoor season. He set personal bests in both events. Kehris ran a personal best time of 51.12 seconds at the Lumberjack Team Challenge for a 13th-place finish in the 400-meter race and a personal best time of 1:55.57 in the 800-meter at the Husky Classic. Additionally, he was apart of the distance medley relay team that took ninth at the MPSF Championships with a time of 10:10.77. Outdoors, Kehris showed great improvement in the 800-meter race during the 2016 outdoor campaign. He managed to finish in the top-12 in six of his seven races and ran a personal best time of 1:53.41 at the ASU Invitational for 12th-place. He would go on to place 19th at the Pac-12 Championships with a time of 1:55.83. 

2015: Kehris redshirted during the indoor season … Outdoors, he ran the 800-meter race in four events during the outdoor season … Set a personal best at the Arizona-ASU Dual meet with a time of 1:56.83, good for a fifth-place finish … Took 13th at the ASU Invitational with a time of 1:57.04.

2014 (XC): Ran four miles in 23:06.16 at the ASU Invite and earned a 24th-place finish.

HIGH SCHOOL: Kehris graduated from the American School of the Hague in the Netherlands … They don’t have school sports in the Netherlands, it is club sports … He did two years of track and field as an 800-meter runner and also played basketball for two year … He was the team captain and Most Valuable Player in 2013 … He earned a first-place finish in the 800 meters at the International Schools Sports Tournament … At that tournament, he also took second place in the 1,500-meter race … Gustavs played basketball for most of his life, he only picked up track and field in January of 2013.

PERSONAL: He is the son of of Djavs and Ilze Kehris … He has three brothers, Andris, Elmars and Eriks … Andris, plays basketball at Vanderbilt University … He is pursuing a degree in physics.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

    Distance
    6'0"
  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Distance
    6'0"
  • 2016-17Junior

    Distance
    6'0"
  • 2017-18Redshirt Junior

    Middle Distance
    6'0"
  • 2018-19Redshirt Senior

    Middle Distance
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