Career Bests:
8k: 24:19.24 (second overall) at the NE-10 Championships onOctober 23, 2011.
10k: 31:30.4 (third overall) at the NCAA Division II EastRegionals on November 6, 2011.
2011: NE-10Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award winner. NE-10Commissioner's Honor Roll (BothSemesters). Athletic Director'sHonor Roll (Fall Semester). NE-10 Academic All-Conference.USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree. NCAA Division II All-EastRegion Team. All-New England Selection. NE-10All-Conference First Team. Earned All-New Englandhonors with an 11th place finish overall at the New EnglandChampionships with a time of 25:07 on the 8-kilometer course.Finished second overall at the NE-10 Championships with acareer-best time of 24:19.24 (8-kilometers). Placed third overallon the 10-kilometer course with a career-best time of 31:30.4 atthe NCAA Division II East Regionals. Posted a time of 33:24.2 atthe NCAA Division National Championships (96th overall). Finished29th overall and eighth overall among Division II competitors atthe National Catholic Championships with a time of 25:31 on the8-kilometer course. NE-10 Weekly Honor Roll (9/19, 10/10,10/24, 11/7). WORCESTER TELEGRAM: After Much Thought, Polito Thinks HeShould Just Run. PolitoEarns All-New England Honors.
2010: AthleticDirector's Honor Roll Spring Semester. NE-10Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award winner. NE-10 AcademicAll-Conference. Division II ADA Academic AchievementAward. NE-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll bothsemesters. USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree.NCAA Division II All-East Region Team. NE-10Conference Third Team. Placed ninth overall at theNCAA Division II East Regionals with a time of 31:34 over the10-kilometer course. Finished 18th at the NE-10 Championships in25:49.3 (8-kilometers). Finished 125th overall at the NCAA DivisionII Championships (33:37, 10k). Posted a time of 25:31 at the NewEngland Championships (38th overall). Placed eighth overall atthe Kutztown University Division II Challenge with an 8k timeof 25:55. Posted a time of 25:13 at the 37th Lehigh Paul Short Run(105th overall, 8-kilometers).
2009: USTFCCCAAll-Academic honoree. NE-10 All-Conference SecondTeam. NE-10 AcademicAll-Conference. Fourth overall at BryantInvitational. Placed 21st at UMass-Dartmouth Invitational. Tenth atUSI Pre-National Invitational. Placed 8th at NE-10 Championship toearn a selection to the All-Conference Second Team. Finished 34thoverall at New England Championship. Placed 18th at NCAA DivisionII East Regional meet. Top Stonehill finisher at NCAA Championship,placing 62nd overall.
2008: USTFCCCAAll-Academic honoree. NCAA DivisionII All-East Region Team. NE-10Freshman of the Week (9/15). Placed 6th in the 8k at theTufts Invite (27:26). Placed 96th in the 8k at the Iona Meet ofChampions (26:37). Placed 139th in the 8k at the New EnglandChampionships (26:38). Placed 16th overall in the 8k at theNortheast-10 Conference Championships (25:58), earning Third TeamAll-Conference accolades. Placed 12th in the 10k at the EastRegional Championships (32:10), earning All-Regional accolades.Finished 110th in the 10k at the NCAA Championships(33:25). NE-10 Weekly Honor Roll (9/15, 11/24).
HighSchool: 2008 graduate of Doherty Memorial HighSchool. Three-year letterwinner. Captained the team as a senior.Telegram and Gazette All-Star. Two-time Inter-highchampion in cross country. Four-year letterwinner in indoor andoutdoor track. Captained both teams as a junior and senior.National Honor Society member.
Personal: Born December 31, 1989, Worcester,Mass. Son of Karen and Martin Polito of Worcester, Mass. Has onesister, Stephanie (16). Lists greatest sports moment as beatingteammate Zach Lankow in the mile during his junior year of highschool, when Zach was a senior. Supports the Worcester Tornadosbaseball team.
