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- Year:
- So.
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- Hometown:
- Erie, PA
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- High School:
- McDowell
Bio
Career Highlights
2024
* Academic All-AMCC
* Placed 15th at AMCC Championships with a time of 30:58.8
* Delivered a season-best mark of 28:17.8 at Gettysburg
2023
* All-AMCC
* Ran a time of 27:30.08 for a ninth-place finish at AMCC Championships
* Helped lead the team to a fourth consecutive conference title
At Penn State Behrend
* Majoring in mechanical engineering
* Member of the Penn State Behrend men's swimming and diving team and track & field team
Personal
* Son of Nicolina and Daniel Pierce
* Four-year letterwinner in cross country, swimming, and track and field at McDowell High School
* McDowell 2019 Cross Country Freshman of the Year
* 11-time state qualifier
* Two-time McDowell Swimmer of the Year
* Holds eighth all-time McDowell record in the 100-backstroke
* Two-time McDowell Track and Field MVP
* Mother, Nicolina, was a 1998 and 1999 DII National Champion in the 100 and 200 breaststroke
News mentions
The Penn State Behrend men’s cross country team will compete in the 2024 NCAA Regional Championships on Saturday, Nov. 16 at Fredonia State University Country Course.

The Penn State Behrend men's cross country team captured its fifth straight and 16th overall AMCC Championship with 23 total points at the 2024 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Championships on Saturday.
The Penn State Behrend men's cross country team will compete in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Championships on Saturday, Nov. 2, hosted by Pitt-Greensburg.

The Penn State Behrend men’s cross country team finished 12th in its final regular season race of the season in the Aubrey Shenk Invitational, hosted by Gettysburg on Saturday.
The Penn State men’s cross country earned a runner-up finish with a team score of 43 in the Behrend Twilight Invite at the Behrend Fields Friday evening.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The Penn State Behrend men's cross country began the 2024 season with a third-place finish, accumulating 73 team points at the Westminster-Fisher Invite Friday night.