James Keilbarth

Height:
5-10
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Tulsa, Okla.
High School:
Home Schooled

Personal Bests
Indoor: Mile: 4:39.03
Outdoor: 3,000m: 8:50.56, 3,000m Steeplechase: 9:26.22

2011-12: (Indoor) Did not compete . . . (Outdoor) Won the 3,000m Steeplechase in his first-career attempt in the event at the Track-It Buster Invitational (9:36.25) . . . finished ninth at the Conference USA Championship in the same race with a season-best mark of 9:26.22 . . . ran a career-best 3K of 8:50.56 at the Arkansas Spring Invitational, finishing 12th . . . placed fifth in the 3K at the John Jacobs Invitational with a time of 9:06.14.

2010-11: (Indoor) Placed 12th in the mile at the J.D. Martin Invitational with a mark of 4:39.03 . . . (Outdoor) Did not compete.

2009-10: Took a redshirt.

High School: Homeschooled . . . participated in track and cross country events for four years . . . finished eighth out of 177 runners in the 3A/4A high school section of 2008 Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree, running the 5K cross country course in 17:07 . . . placed fourth out of 454 finishers in the 2008 Riverside 5K Open Race in Tulsa, Okla., finishing in 16:49 . . . was second in the 2007 Owasso Invitational two-mile race with a time of 9:01.

Personal: Majoring in petroleum engineering . . . owns his own business . . . trades stocks and works on his business in his spare time . . . an Eagle Scout . . . has three brothers and one sister . . . his mother, Lacinda, attended TU . . . son of Dennis and Lacinda Keilbarth.