Jordan Armstrong

Height:
6-null
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Longwood, Fla.
High School:
Lyman

SOPHOMORE YEAR | 2017-18: Competed in the 1500-meter run during three outdoor meets...clocked a personal-best time of 3:59.33 (adjusted for altitude) at the Air Force Twilight Open...collected a top-five finish in that distance at the NoCo Challenge (fifth, 4:01.25a)...ran the mile once indoors, posting a personal-best time of 4:21.38a at the Potts Invitational...Mountain West Scholar-Athlete.

FRESHMAN YEAR | 2016-17: Competed in the mile during two indoor meets...clocked a season-best time of 4:24.63 (adjusted for altitude) at the Potts Invitational...did not compete during the outdoor season...MW Scholar-Athlete.

HIGH SCHOOL: Lyman High School...three-time all-state honoree in cross country...placed within the top-12 as a sophomore (12th), junior (eighth) and senior (fifth)...three-time all-region selection...named to the all-district and all-conference teams all four years...member of the team that won the 2014 state title...named the Seminole County Brighthouse Boys Cross Country Athlete of the Year in 2013...two-time team captain for cross country...posted a personal-best 5K time of 15:32...six-time all-state selection in track and field...finished within the top five of the 1600-meter run as a junior (third) and senior (fifth)...also finished within the top-five of the 3200-meter run those years (fifth in 2015, fourth in 2016)...clocked Florida’s fastest 1600-meter time of the year during a victory at the 2016 Florida Pepsi Relays...ran on the 4x800-meter relay that set a new school record...served as team captain during junior and senior years...helped LHS to the 2016 state track and field championship, as well as five conference titles, three district titles and two regional titles...clocked personal-best time of 1:56 at 800 meters, 4:14 at 1600 meters and 9:13 at 3200 meters...also competed in soccer...served as the center back for the varsity team as a freshman...member of the National Honor Society...served as coordinator of the NHS Blood Drive, which posted the highest unit collection counts in all of Seminole County for two years...served as treasurer of the Interact Club...also served as subject leader/coordinator for Mu Alpha Theta, a club he helped start as a freshman...named 2016 Seminole County Brighthouse Boys Scholar-Athlete of the Year...took 18 AP classes...graduated from Lyman’s Institute of Engineering...two-time national AP Scholar (2015, 2016)...two-year winner of the Jefferson Award...graduate of the AP Capstone program...class valedictorian (585 total students).

PERSONAL: Full name is Jordan Lee Armstrong...nickname is “Crabs”...son of John and Cassandra Armstrong...father was a member of the golf team at Eastern Illinois University...has one younger brother...double majoring in physics and applied mathematics...earning a minor in nuclear weapons and strategy...serving as the Cadet Protestant Advisory Council Director of AV/Media and Cadet-in-Charge of wing tutoring for math...served as the CATM Superintendent during Expeditionary Skills Training (EST) over the summer...named to the Superintendent’s List for excellence in military, academic and athletic performance twice (spring 2017, spring 2018)...also named to the Dean’s List and Commandant’s List twice (fall 2016, fall 2017)...received the Stamps Leader-Scholar Scholarship, focusing on research and policy in Small Modular Nuclear Reactors...member of the National Sigma Pi Sigma Society...recipient of the National Blake Lily Prize...earned Jump Wings in the summer of 2017...hobbies include playing the piano, tutoring, “being a big nerd” and loving life...spent part of the summer at Sandia National Labs, helping train and teach members of every service branch and other agencies on the current stockpile of nuclear weapons and their ins-and-outs, while getting to work hands-on with high fidelity trainers of our current weapons...also shadowed Air Force physicists at Kirtland AFB, N.M., learned about piloting heavies during Operation Air Force at Travis AFB, Calif., and oversaw the gun range during EST at the Academy...is a vegetarian...member of Cadet Squadron 01.