BOSTON – Jonas Hampton, a former standout on the Hartford men's cross country and track and field teams, recently signed with the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) High Performance Team, the organization announced on Wednesday.

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Hampton joins the B.A.A. following a career-best eighth-place finish at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, in February. On the challenging Olympic Trials course in Atlanta, he clocked a personal-best marathon time of 2:12:10. Hampton is a two-time Olympic Trials Marathon qualifier and has run under 2:16 in the marathon four times, including a 2:14:19, 15th-place finish at the 2018 Chicago Marathon and a victory at the 2015 Eversource Hartford Marathon in a time of 2:15.57.
 
A four-year member of the Hartford track and field and cross country teams from 2007 to 2011, Hampton was a standout distance runner for the Hawks. He set personal bests of 31:45.62 in the 10,000m, 14:52.10 in the 5000m, 8:39.74 in the 3000m and 4:27.36 in the mile. On the cross country course, the Pottstown, Pa., native recorded personal-best times in the 10k (34:09.25), 8k (26:21.0) and the 5k (15:35.0).
 
Hampton, who currently resides in Medford, Mass., graduated from Hartford in 2011 with a degree in civil engineering. He is actively involved in the Hawks' Former Athlete Advisory Committee (FAAC), a group that is comprised of student-athlete alumni from each of the Hawks' Division I programs, dedicated to assisting the Director of Athletics with first-hand insights and extending the reach of Hartford's alumni network.