Jack Bolas is a middle-distance runner who specializes in the mile.
Education
Bolas attended Chapel Hill High School in his hometown, where he competed in track and cross country. In his senior year of high school, he broke into the national tier when he won the 2005 North Carolina 4A Boy"s Cross Country Championships ahead of Sandy Roberts. He placed sixth overall at the 2005 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, and was the fastest runner in the competition who was from the South Regional class.
Career
He competed for the United States at the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival, where he ran in the men"s 1500 meters. High school Collegiate Bolas was recruited by University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he attended school and ran competitively until his graduation in 2010. He placed fourth overall in the men"s 1500 meters at the 2010 National Collegiate Athletic Association DI Outdoor T&F Championships.
He was UW-Madison"s first runner to have ever run under four minutes in the mile when he ran 3:59.40 at the 2008 Meyo Mademoiselle (Miss)
Post-collegiate After graduating, Bolas joined coach Frank Gagliano at New Jersey New York Track Club. In the summer of 2015, he raced the east coast mile circuit.
On September 9, 2015, Bolas competed at the Hoka One One"s Long Island Mile in New York in a time of 3:59.91, placing seventh overall.