Benjamin Fazio of RPI Earns Year-End Track & Field Award

2017 Mar 22

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete Benjamin Fazio of East Greenwich 02818 has been selected for a year-end Liberty League award for his performance in track & field.

The credentials that earned Fazio the Liberty League Runner of the Year award were: NCAA All-America in 3000 meters (4th) ... NCAA National Champion in DMR ... Set facility record ... Second in DMR at Tufts ... NYSCTC Champion in mile and 1000 ... NYSCTC Runner of the Meet ... First in 3000 at Utica ... Liberty League Champion in 800 and mile ... Liberty League Runner of the Meet ... Second in mile at Dartmouth ... Liberty League Track Performer of the Week three times ... Atlantic Region Runner of the Year.

Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is America's oldest technological research university. For nearly two centuries, the Institute has been a driving force behind breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every arena-from transportation and infrastructure to business, medicine, outer space, and cyberspace.

As it approaches its bicentennial anniversary, the Institute continues to define The New Polytechnic, a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and research that uses advanced technologies to enable fresh collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and regions, in order to answer the global challenges of our day.