High School: Ran four seasons each of cross country and indoor and outdoor track & field... primary events were the 1,600 and 4x800 relay... named to all-conference teams in track and cross country... as a senior in cross country, team MVP... was track team's highest scorer as a freshman... senior captain in track and two-year cross country captain...
PERSONAL: born Maxwell R. Armstrong January 24, 1996 in Brunswick, ME … Parents: Julie and Charles... Sister: Alexis... Major: Social Work … Career plans: Hospice work … Residence: Gales Ferry, CT...
MAX... REVEALED
Your pre-game ritual: Listen to “Facts” by Kanye West and say to myself “this is just a race, relax”
Personal goal for the season: Finish in the top five for the team
Your most overused phrase: “Who’s Man?”
Favorite place to stop for food after a competition: Shake Shack
Pet peeve: When people pack up early at the end of class
If you could describe yourself in one word, it would be: Rowdy
Biggest waste of money: Textbooks
Biggest adjustment to college life: The way Hurley makes you feel after you eat it
If you were to choose a superpower what would it be: Invisibility, so I could avoid all my tinder matches
If you could travel anywhere in the world where would you go: South Africa
Biggest crisis facing the world: Climate Change
Your spirit animal: A heavy-set corgi
One thing you would like to do before you died: Go in the head of the Statue of Liberty
The automobile you would buy tomorrow if you had the money: Tesla
Dream job: Hospice caregiver
Job you consider the hardest or worst to do for a living: I worked the drive thru at McDonald’s this summer so I think that takes the cake
Longest time you have watched a Netflix series: 3 years 2 days 4 hours 37 minutes and 11 seconds
Number of hours watching the 2016 Olympics: 6
Favorite Olympic sport to watch: Badminton
Greatest story to come out of the 2016 Olympics: Simone Manuel
Greatest Olympian of all time: Tommie Smith
Trump or Hillary: Bernie
What was the best/worst place Pokemon Go has brought you: Brought me to the conclusion that I am wasting my time playing this game when my phone died and I was staring at the reflection of myself and asking “Who have I become?”
Favorite Instagram filter: Toaster
Greatest sports dynasty of all-time: Iverson/Lue
If you could meet anyone who would it be: Kermit the Frog
If your life could be made into a movie, the title would be: Voice of a Generation
One thing you would change about Eastern: Dining hall open till 10
| INDOOR | | | |
| Date | Meet | Mark | Finish |
| MILE | | | |
| 2016/17 | | | |
| January 14 | Coast Guard | 5:11.84# | 8th (10) |
| 2015/16 | | | |
| January 30 | Springfield | 5:13.81
| 13th (14) |
| #-Personal best | | | |
| | | | |
| OUTDOOR | | | |
| 1500m | | | |
| 2016 | | | |
| March 26 | Wesleyan | 4:43.60 | 24th (33) |
| April 2 | Coast Guard | 4:42.96 | 35th (42) |
| April 9 | Smith | 4:37.63 | 18th (31) |
| April 16 | Conn | 4:41.50 | 53rd (71) |
| April 22 | ECSU | 4:37.96 | 9th (16) |
| April 30 | NE Alliance | 4:35.37# | 20th (29) |
| | LEC | | 10th (12( |
| #-Personal best | | | |
