University of North Dakota Athletics

2013-14 (Senior): Broke the school receord in the outdoor 5K with a time of 14:51.42 at Drake's Jim Duncan Invitational ... Record had been UND's longest-standing record, having been previously set in 1983 ... Placed 13th in the in the 5K at the 2014 Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championship ... Clocked a time of 16:03.91 in what was the final event of his collegiate career ... Ran the fourth-best indoor 5K in school history at North Dakota State, clocking a time of 14:57.89 ... Ran the 10th-fastest mile in school history at Minnesota's Northwest Open with a time of 4:22.32 ... Named UND’s Most Improved cross country runner in the fall … Was UND’s top finisher at the NCAA Division I Midwest Regional with a 10K time of 32 minutes, 26 seconds … Placed 95th in a field of 205 … Was UND’s No. 2 runner at the Big Sky Conference Cross Country Championship, where he placed 32nd with a time of 26:11 … Led UND at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational with a time of 26:51, placing him 28th out of 75 runners ... Lettered in both track and cross country.

2012-13 (Junior): Member of UND’s distance medley relay team that placed seventh at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship … Quartet ran the fourth-fastest relay in school history with a time of 10:31.98 … Set a meet record and established a PR in the 5K with a time of 15:4.68 at Gustavus Adolphus’ Drake Alternative Track and Field Meet (April 29) … Ran a personal-record 3K time of 8:38.81 at the Iowa State Classic (Feb. 9) that ranked as the fifth-best in UND history … Runner-up in the 5K at the UNC-Wilmington Seahawk Invitational (March 8) … Competed in all six cross country meets and led UND in three of them ... Paced all UND runners at the Big Sky Conference Championship with a time of 27:00.3 and placed 40th ... Clocked a time of 33: 42.04 seconds at the NCAA Division I Midwest Regional, placing 138th ... Placed seventh among Division I runners at UND's Ron Pynn Invitational with a time of 26:33.4 ... Earned first letter at UND in both track and cross country.

Before UND: Spent the previous two seasons at the University of Minnesota Duluth ... Was named 2010-11 Track and Field/Cross Country Rookie of the Year at UMD ... Finished fifth in the 5K at the 2012 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Outdoor Championship ... Placed fifth in the mile at the 2011 NSIC Championship ... A 2010 graduate of Hibbing High School ... Lettered four times in both track and field and cross country as a prep ... Was voted team's best runner as a senior and junior ... Was a two-time state participant and four-time all-conference performer in cross country ... Earned three all-conference honors in track ... Also lettered once in basketball ... Member of the National Honor Society.

Personal: Majoring in marketing ... Son of Mark Saccoman and Karlyn Schlitz ... Father played football at Hibbing (Minn.) Community College.