2025 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Benjamin Kirk
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Denver East HS
- Hometown:
- Denver, Colo.
TFRRS Profile
2025
Competed at six meets over the course of the year, five during outdoor season and one during indoor season ... Had a PB of 21.84 in the 200m during the USC dual meet on May 4 ... Fourth-place in the 200m (21.87) at the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invite on April 5 ... Made his season debut at the Spokane Sports Showcase on Jan. 17, setting a PB in the 60m at 7.01 ... Named to the UCLA Athletic Director's Honor Roll for fall and spring quarters.
2024
Did not compete during the indoor season … Ran the 100m and 200m events during his sophomore outdoor campaign … Placed second in the 100m event at the Rafer Johnson-Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invite behind teammate Sam Herenton … Posted a season-best mark in the 200m (21.90) at that same home meet … Finished 16th in the Conference in the 100m race (10.72).
2023
Appeared in four races for the Bruins during the indoor season, running 60m and 200m events … Debuted at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Invitational in the 60m… ran a season-best 7.02 at the Don Kirby Invite on Feb. 11 … Ran 22.58 in his lone 200m race at the Ken Shannon Last Chance Invitational … Did not compete during the 2023 outdoor campaign.
High School
Was a two year letter winner at Denver East High School in track and field and three year letter winner in football … Earned Football All-American Honors during his freshman and sophomore years … Competed in the 100m and 200m dash at 5A state championship and was a two-time first team all-state track and field … Ran club track with Hustle Denver … Competed at the New Balance Indoor nationals 2022 and Nike Outdoor Nationals 2022.
Personal
Born in Denver, Colo. to parents Shana and Greg Kirk … Has a younger brother, Henry … Chose UCLA because it’s the “best combination of top-notch academics and athletics in the country” … Describes his greatest athletic thrill as winning two state titles after having only done track for less than a year … Admires Demaryius Thomas and Von Miller … He is the first person in his family to ever compete in any athletics in high school or college.
