Donald Sage is an American track athlete and the winner of the 2002 NCAA Outdoor 1500m championship.

Background

Sage graduated from York Community High School

York Community High School

York Community High School is a public secondary school in Elmhurst, Illinois, United States. Most of the students reside in Elmhurst, however the district also draws a small number of students from Addison, Bensenville, and Oak Brook...

 in Elmhurst, Illinois in 2000. He won state titles in cross country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

 (1999) and track & field (1600m (1999 and 2000) and 3200m (1999 and 2000)). In the 2000 Prefontaine Classic Sage ran a 4:00.29 mile, the 6th best performance ever by a high school runner. That also made him the fastest high school runner to not break the 4 minute barrier.
Sage attended Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. He was a three time All-American in cross country, helping the Cardinal to 2 team championships (2002, 2003) and a seven time All-American in track, including his victory in the 2002 outdoor 1500m.

Personal bests

{| class="wikitable"
!Distance||Mark||Date
|-
|1500 m||3:39.17||2001
|-
|1 Mile||3:58.7||2000
|-
|5000 m||14:04.94||2001
|-
|10000 m||28:40.12||2002