2011-12 Track and Field
Ruben Belen
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Medina, Ohio
- High School:
- Medina
KENT STATE HIGHLIGHTS
• Recorded a 2011 indoor season-best time of 8.55 in the 60-meter hurdles. Also posted a season-best high jump of 6'-08.75".
• Posted a 2011 outdoor season-best time of 15.21 in the 110-meter hurdles. Also recorded a season-best high jump of 6'-08.00" and javelin throw of 172'-10.00"
• Posted a 2010 indoor season-best 4,602 points in the heptathlon.
• Posted a 2010 outdoor season-best score of 5,918 points in the decathlon.
• Posted the team’s second-fastest time of the 2009 season in the indoor 60-meter hurdles with an 8.50. His 4,644 points in the heptathlon was the team’s second-most of the season
•Finished the 110-meter hurdles in 15.21 for the team’s second-fastest finish of the 20009 outdoor season. Compiled a season-best 6,407 points in the decathlon.
Prior to Kent State
•Earned All-American status when he finished fifth in the pentathlon at the 2008 Nike Indoor Nationals with a total of 3,279 points
•Personal-best in the hurdles (14.3 seconds) ranks second in Medina High School history
•A three-time conference champion who holds the Bees’ school record in the high jump with a leap of 6’-8”
•Member of Medina’s three-time conference championship teams
•Was a four-year letter winner
Personal
•Born Dec. 29, 1989
•Son of Ruben and Patricia Belen
•Majoring in zoology
