2006-07: Academic All-GLVC, recipient of Lewis' Delahanty Award for academic excellence among student athletes and a spring Deans' List student ... competed in four indoor and three outdoor meets ... during the indoor season, took sixth in the 3000 at the Dick Pond Invitational (9:15.57) ... was seventh in the 5000 at the Chicagoland Indoor Championships (16:12.67) ... placed 15th in the 5000 at the GLVC Indoor Championships (16:01.95) ... during the outdoor season, placed seventh in the 5000 at Truman State (16:09.98) ... was eighth in the 5000 at Western Illinois (16:11.60).

2005-06: Academic All-GLVC ... member of the Flyers' distance medley relay team that finished second at Chicagoland indoor.

High School/Other: Earned three varsity letters ... won the conference title in the 1600 meters as a sophomore, junior and senior ... all-state in the 4x800-meter relay as a junior and senior, and a state qualifier in the 4x800 his sophomore season ... team captain as a junior and senior ... team's Most Valuable as a junior ... also lettered three years in cross country ... as a senior, was a state qualifier, conference champion, team's Most Valuable Runner and team captain, and also ran a school-record 15:26 for three miles on Maine West's course ... state qualifier, conference runner-up and team captain as a junior ... all-conference and team captain his sophomore year ... honor roll student.

Personal: Son of James and Julie Ritzema ... marketing major.