Stephen Racanelli

Class:
Senior
Position:
Sprints
Height:
5-11
Hometown:
Lynchburg, Va.
Prev School:
Brookville High School

Top Efforts in a Liberty Uniform
60 - 6.89 (Indoor)
100 - 10.69
200 - 21.31
300 - 34.94 (Indoor)
400 - 47.29 (Indoor)

Big South Individual Titles (9)
2015 Indoor 200
2015 Indoor 400
2015 Outdoor 400
2016 Indoor 200
2016 Indoor 400
2016 Outdoor 400
2017 Indoor 200
2017 Outdoor 200
2017 Outdoor 400

All-Big South Honors (16)
2014 Indoor 200 - 2nd
2015 Indoor 200 - 1st
2015 Indoor 400 - 1st
2015 Outdoor 200 - 2nd
2015 Outdoor 400 - 1st
2016 Indoor 200 - 1st
2016 Indoor 400 - 1st
2016 Indoor 4 x 400 - 1st
2016 Outdoor 200 - 3rd
2016 Outdoor 400 - 1st
2017 Indoor 200 - 1st
2017 Indoor 400 - 2nd
2017 Indoor 4 x 400 - 1st
2017 Outdoor 200 - 1st
2017 Outdoor 400 - 1st
2017 Outdoor 4 x 400 - 1st

Career
• At the time of his graduation, ranked No. 4 all-time among Liberty men's track & field athletes with nine career Big South individual event titles
• Departed Liberty as part of the program-record indoor 4 x 400 relay quartet (3:13.18), while ranking No. 2 in the indoor 200 (21.38), No. 2 in the indoor 400 (47.29), No. 5 in the indoor 60 (6.89), No. 5 in the indoor 300 (34.94) and No. 10 in the outdoor 400 (47.43)

2017 Outdoor Track & Field (Sr.)
• Named Big South Men's Outstanding Track Performer after winning the Big South 200, 400 (season-best 47.89) and 4 x 400 relay (3:14.93) titles
• Joined Mike Decker (1999-2001) as the only Flames ever to win three straight Big South outdoor men's 400 championships
• Claimed Liberty's first Big South men's outdoor 4 x 400 title since 2001 and the team's first men's outdoor 200 crown since 2002
• Raced to a personal-best time of 21.31 in the Big South 200 prelims
• Part of Liberty's fastest 4 x 100 (41.08) and 4 x 400 (3:12.55) quartets of the season, both of which came at the FSU Relays
• Big South Presidential Honor Roll member

2016-17 Indoor Track & Field (Sr.)
• Won his third straight Big South 200 title, while also finishing first in the 4 x 400 relay and second in the 400
• The first Big South sprinter to win three straight indoor 200-meter titles since Charleston Southern's Cornelius Tyler (2008-10)
• Became the eighth Liberty men's track & field athlete ever to win at least seven Big South individual event titles
• Competed in the 400 (season-best 48.95) and 4 x 400 relay (school-record 3:13.18 in prelims) at the IC4A meet. Racanelli anchored the record-setting relay home in 47.5 seconds.

2016 Outdoor Track & Field (Jr.)
• Repeated as Big South 400-meter champion (outdoor personal-best 47.43), while his 47.00 anchor split helped the Flames place second in the 4 x 400 relay (season-best 3:12.14)
• Also placed third in the Big South 200 final and fifth in the 4 x 100 relay
• Moved into Liberty's all-time top 10 list with his 47.43 400 clocking
• Ran the 400-meter leg for the Flames' ninth-place sprint medley relay quartet at the Texas Relays

2015-16 Indoor Track & Field (Jr.)
• Voted Liberty's first Big South Men's Outstanding Track Performer since 2008 after sweeping the Big South 200 (season-best 21.59), 400 (47.92) and 4 x 400 relay (season-best 3:17.08) titles
• IC4A fourth-place finisher in the 400 (personal-best 47.29) and placed 13^th in the 200 prelims
• Big South Men's Track Athlete of the Week on Feb. 10

2015 Outdoor Track & Field (So.)
• Big South 400 champion, while placing second in the 200, 4 x 100 relay and 4 x 400 relay
• Big South-winning 400 time of 47.52 was the fastest clocking by a Flame since 2012
• Top 200 time of the year (21.66) came at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier
• Helped the Flames place fifth in the 4 x 100 relay IC4A final at the Penn Relays

2014-15 Indoor Track & Field (So.)
• First Flame to sweep the Big South 200 and 400 dash titles since Mike Decker in 2001
• Placed ninth in the IC4A 200 final and 13^th in the 4 x 400 relay
• Achieved season-best times in the 200 (21.73) and 400 (49.08) at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup
• Improved his 300 best to 34.94 (No. 5 in program history) at the Hokie Invitational

2014 Outdoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• At the Big South meet, came in second in the 4 x 100 relay, 11th in the 100 and 12th in the 200
• Raced in the 100, 200 and 4 x 100 prelims at the IC4A meet
• Fastest times of the year were a wind-aided 10.69 in the Virginia Cup 100 and a wind-aided 21.43 in the Liberty Twilight Qualifier 200

2013-14 Indoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• Burst onto the scene as a freshman, earning top-five finishes in the IC4A 200 (third place) and 60 (fifth place) finals
• At the Big South Championship, placed second in the 200, third in the 4 x 400 and fifth in the 60
• Got faster each of the eight times he ran the 200 dash, going from 22.73 at the Liberty Kickoff to 21.38 in the IC4A final
• Set program freshman records in the 60 (6.89) and 200 (21.38)

Prep
• Graduated from Brookville High School
• Helped Brookville win the Virginia AA state title in the 4 x 100 relay as a senior, while finishing second in the 100 and 200 finals
• 2013 Virginia AA indoor state champion in the 55 dash and 4 x 200 relay
• Played wide receiver for Brookville's back-to-back state championship-winning football teams in 2011 and 2012
• Top times were 6.50 in the 55, 10.82 in the 100 and 21.74 in the 200

Personal
• Son of Mike and Meg Racanelli
• Exercise science major
• Birthday is on Sept. 19