2019-20 Track & Field/Cross Country Roster
Roster
Patton Little
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Starkville, Miss.
- High School:
- Starkville HS
Personal Bests
Indoor | 1000m: 2:30.13 |Â Mile: 4:13.11 | 3000m: 8:21.53
Outdoor | 1500m: 3.49.98 (School Record) | 5000m: 14.35.21
C-USA Academic Honor Roll – 2019-20
2020 Outdoor (Senior): The season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
2020 Indoor (Senior): Competed in four meets before the Conference Championships, running in the mile, 1000m, and 3000m ... Finished in first in the mile at the Samford Indoor Clash with a season-best 4:13.91 ... Had a personal-best 3000m time of 8:13.08 at the Music City Challenge where he finished in 10th ... Was the first Southern Miss runner to compete in the 1000m.
2019 (Junior): Redshirted.
2018 Outdoor (Sophomore): Placed fifth at the C-USA Outdoor Championships and breaking David Schexnayder's 34-year-old school record in the 1500m by running 3:49.98 at the Georgia Tech Invitational ... Highlights include two event wins, winning the 1500m at the Southern Miss Invitational at 3:50.59 ... Took the first-place spot for the second year in a row in the 5000m at the Crimson Tide Invitational with a time of 14:35.21, which is also the No. 5 time in school history.
2018 Indoor (Sophomore): Would become the first Golden Eagle distance runner to score at the C-USA Indoor Championships mile in over a decade, placing sixth in the event and running just off his career-best at 4:13.47 ... Ran the No. 2 all-time 3000m with a 8:21.53 at the Vanderbilt Invite, taking the first-place finish in his section ... Ran to the No. 2 time in school history in the indoor mile at the Music City Challenge, running 4:13.11.
2017 Outdoor (Freshman): Competed primarily in the 5000m and the 1500m ... Posted six top-5 finishes as a freshman and collected three individual victories ... Most notable was his first-place 5000m at the Crimson Tide Invitational, running a 14:45 season-best and personal-best at the time, beating out 31 other runners ... Would also run 3:55 at the LSU Alumni Gold Invitational, taking a top-5 finish and cracking the Golden Eagles' top-10 all-time list with his performance ... Finished the season at the C-USA Outdoor Championships finishing fifteenth in the 5000m with a 15:45.81.Â
2017 Indoor (Freshman): Competed in five meets as a freshman ... Won his first collegiate meet in the 3000m with a time of 8:37.68 ... Ran a personal-best 8:30.78 3000m at the Vanderbilt Invite, which is also the No. 6 all-time for Southern Miss ... Posted a twelfth-place finish in the 3000m at the C-USA Indoor Championships ... Was a member of the ninth-place DMR group at the Indoor Championships ... Had a personal-best in the mile at the Indoor C-USA Championships with a 4:19.11.Â
High School:Â Attended Starkville HS, lettering all four years in Track and Cross Country... Two-time State Champion in the 1600m ... Two-time All-State in both Cross Country and Track ... The 2015 MS Cross Country Male Gatorade Runner of the Year ... 2015-16 MHSAA 6A 1600 meter State Champion ... Also lettered in tennis.
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Personal:Â Full name is David Patton Little ... Born on December 31, 1997 in Jackson, Miss. ... Parents are David and Pattie Little ... Has one younger sister, Lake and one older brother, Layton ... Majoring in nursing.
