Admin (Garrett Zatlin)
Jan 7, 20222 min
Earlier this week, Virginia Tech announced that they have added D2 middle distance superstar Seb Anthony to their roster. According to Virginia Tech's roster, Anthony is transitioning to Blacksburg, Virginia as a graduate transfer and will be joining the team this winter.
According to TFRRS, Anthony has at least one season of eligibility remaining in both indoor track and outdoor track. It is possible that he also has additional eligibility.
For those unfamiliar with Anthony, let's get you caught up. The graduate transfer from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina has been a D2 superstar in the middle distance ranks for years now.
The Royal-turned-Hokie owns personal bests of 1:48 for 800 meters, 3:44 for 1500 meters and 14:39 for 5000 meters. On the track, Anthony has recorded three All-American finishes in his four appearances at the national meet.
Anthony's best national meet result came at the 2021 NCAA Indoor Championships when he finished a narrow runner-up to Dennis Mbuta en route to his personal best. Mbuta barely edged Anthony in that race by 0.12 seconds.
On paper, few transfers or graduate transfers result in a better athlete-program pairing than Anthony and Virginia Tech.
The Hokies have a lengthy history of developing some of the NCAA's most elite middle distance stars while Anthony is likely aiming to reach the next level of his talent, potentially gunning for an All-American finish at the D1 level while improving his personal best in the 800 meters to a mark somewhere in the 1:46 to 1:47 range.
Remember, this is the same Virginia Tech squad that had five* different men run under 4:00 in the same mile race last winter. Many of those men went on to record strong marks in the 800 meters and the 3000 meters as well.
*Diego Zarate was still on the VT roster for the spring season, but didn't have indoor eligibility and therefore ran unattached for that mile race.
With 800 meter veteran Bashir Mosavel-Lo moving to Notre Dame as a graduate transfer this past summer, there is now room in Blacksburg, Virginia for another star talent to take control of this program's middle distances.
And on paper, that star talent could be Seb Anthony.