Gabe Fendel

Height:
5-11
Weight:
null
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Fishers, Ind.
High School:
Hamilton Southeastern

NCAA QUALIFYING
2019 1,500-meters (Preliminaries)
2019 NCAA Cross Country (139th)

PAC-12 SCORING
2019 1,500-meters, 7th (3:51.34)

2019: Indoor: Redshirted
Outdoor: Opened the season with a pair of wins at the Jerry Quiller and Stanford Invite, including a personal-best 1,500 at Stanford in 3:45.78 ... Finished seventh at the Pac-12 Championship in the 1,500 and also competed in the 5,000 ... Finished 29th in the West Preliminaries in the 1,500.

CROSS COUNTRY:
2019: Finished five races ... Was a part of the 2019 Pac-12 Championship, finishing 29th ... Was 18th at the Mountain Region Championships ... Finished the season 139th at the NCAA Championships.
2018: Redshirt. Fendel raced once unattached, finishing 39^th at the Wyoming Invitational.

HIGH SCHOOL: Fendel owns three Hamilton Southeastern High School records. He set the school’s 5k cross country record of 14:46.3 in 2016 at the Indiana High School Athletic Associations Semi-State Championship where Fendel placed second. That year, he went on to place second at the state championship. Fendel’s other two school records came on the track. He ran a time of 4:04.70 en route to winning the 2017 1,600-meter state championship. His record of 8:50.56 in the 3,200 also came in 2017, this time at the Arcadia Invitational where he placed 10^th overall. As a senior, Fendel won the 2017 state cross country championship. He was also named a Foot Locker All-American as he finished 12^th overall at the national meet. Fendel was also recruited by Wisconsin, Oregon, Syracuse and Oklahoma State.

HIGH SCHOOL BESTS: 1,600-meters: 4:04.70; 3,200-meters: 8:50.56.

IN THE CLASSROOM: Fendel intends to major in arts and sciences, but is also interested in business.

PERSONAL: Gabriel Cordeiro Fendel was born on Sept. 30, 1999, in Indianapolis, Ind. He is the son of John and Solange Fendel. He has dual citizenship (Brazil). His mother is an Olympian, running the marathon in 1996 for Brazil, and his father ran in college at Ball State.