Honors and Awards 2015 Outdoor All-ACC Second Team, 800m 2015 Outdoor All-ACC Second Team, 1500m 2015 Outdoor ACC Performer of the Week, March 24 & April 28 2015 Indoor ACC All-Academic 2014 Indoor All-ACC First Team 2014 Outdoor All-ACC Second Team 2014 ACC Performer of the Week (April 8) 2014 Outdoor All-ACC Academic Team 2014 CoSIDA Academic All-District 2014 CoSIDA Academic All-America 2013 Outdoor All-ACC Academic Team 2013 Outdoor All-ACC First Team 2013 Outdoor USTFCCCA honorable mention All-America 2013 USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week (April 8)
2015 Cross Country:
Finished 15th at the Commodore Classic with an 8k time of 25:12.2 … Finished 23rd at the ACC Championships with an 8k time of 24:19.3, narrowly missing out on All-ACC honors … Finished 22nd at the NCAA South Regional with a 10k time of 31:29.3, earning him All-South Region honors.
2015 Track:
Indoor: Placed second in the 800 meters with a time of 1:53.49 at the Auburn Invite … Helped the DMR to a first-place finish with a time of 9:56.43 at the Vanderbilt Invite … Made his season debut in the mile run and placed third with a career-best time of 4:06.71 at the Doc Hale VT Elite Meet … Won the 800 meters at the Samford Invite in a time of 1:49.43. Outdoor: Ran a leg of the 4×800-meter relay that won the Florida Relays for the third straight year … Anchored the 4×800-meter relay team that won the event at the Penn Relays … Placed fourth in the 800 meters and fifth in the 1,500 meters at the ACC Championships to earn All-ACC Second Team honors in both events … Logged three first-place finishes in the 1,500 meters … Competed at the USATF Championships.
*Won the mile in a sub four-minute time of 3:59.24, breaking Georgia Tech’s school record and outkicking two-time Olympian Nick Symmonds at the Music City Distance Carnival on Vanderbilt’s campus on June 6, 2015. The time is the first outdoor sub four-minute mile in Georgia Tech history and Lasater became the first native born Georgian to ever break four minutes in a mile.
2014 Cross Country:
Competed in five races … Finished third for Georgia Tech, and 31st out of 197 runners, at the Crimson Classic … Competed in the ACC Championships (25:01) … Finished third for the Yellow Jackets at the NCAA South Regional with a time of 31:40.
2014 Track:
Indoor: Ran a season-best 800 meters in 1:49.74 at the Penn State Invite … Placed fourth in the same event at the Vanderbilt Invite … Won the 800 meters at the ACC Championships for first team All-ACC honors … Helped the DMR team take second at the ACC Championships. Outdoor: Recorded nine top-10 finishes, including three victories … Anchored the 4×800-meter relay that won the event at the Florida Relays for the second-straight year and broke the 20-year-old Georgia Tech school record … Took second in the ACC Championships in the 800 meters for second team All-ACC honors … Ran a career-best 800 meters in 1:47.19 to take second at the Florida Relays … Won the same event at the Georgia Tech Invite and took first in the 1,500 meters at the Alabama Relays … Competed at the USATF Outdoor Championships, and finished 24th in the 800-meter preliminaries and fifth in his heat in a time of 1:50.20.
2013 Cross Country:
Earned NCAA All-Region honors with a 16th place finish overall, first for Georgia Tech, and a career-best 10K time of 30:33 at the NCAA South Regional … Finished first for Georgia Tech, and fifth overall, in the Furman Classic, with a career-best time of 24:07 … Also finished first for Georgia Tech in the ACC Championships.
2013 Track:
Indoor: Ran a season-best 800-meter time in 1:53.63 for eighth place at the Samford Invite … Logged a PR in the 3,000 meters (8:28.35) at the ACC Championships … Recorded a career-best time of 2:29.04 in the 1,000 meters at the Meyo Invite.Outdoor: Part of the 4×800-meter relay team that took first in two meets – the Florida Relays (7:22.37) and the Georgia Relays (7:42.95) … Had one of the most memorable 2013 finishes in the 800 meters at the Florida Relays, leading to USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week honors … Placed fourth in the 800 meters in a career-best time of 1:48.34 at the Florida Relays … Won the 800 meters at the Yellow Jacket Invite … Earned All-ACC First Team honors with a first place finish in the 800 meters (1:48.79) at the ACC Championships … Qualified for the NCAA Championships and placed 22nd with an 800-meter time of 1:54.27.
2012 Cross Country:
Competed in four races … Recorded a season best at the ACC Championships with a time of 25:46 … Finished 47th overall and fourth for Georgia Tech in the NCAA South Regional with a 10K personal-best time of 32:03.
2012 Track:
Indoor:Ran the 3,000 meters in 8:59.12 at the VT Elite Meet … Helped the DMR to place sixth with a time of 10:22.37 at the Vulcan Invitational … Ran a leg of the DMR at the ACC Championships to help the team to a seventh-place finish (9:56.37).Outdoor:Part of the 4×800-meter relay and the 4×400-meter relay teams that took first (7:33.09) and third (3:17.59), respectively, at the Georgia Intercollegiate Invite … Ran the 1,500 meters in 4:00.10 for third place at the same meet … Helped the 4×400-meter relay team to a third-place finish (3:51.41) at the Yellow Jacket Invite.
2011 Cross Country:
Did not compete.
High School:
A three-year cross country and four-year track letterwinner at Mount de Sales Academy in Macon, Ga. under the direction of Jeff Dobias … Two-time team captain … Helped his team to the GISA-AAA State Championship in 2009 and 2010 … Individual State Champions in the 3,200m run, 1,600m run and 4x400m relay his senior season … All-State in cross country in 2009 and 2010 … All-State in Track in 2011 … State and Region High Point winner in 2011 … All-Region in cross country in 2008, 2009 and 2010 … All-Region in track in 2010 and 2011 …Set the school record in the 1,600m and 3,200m runs … Member of the National Honor Society, French National Honor Society and a National AP Scholar.
Personal: Full name is Brandon David Lasater … Born on Oct. 9, 1992 in Warner Robins, Ga. … Parents are David and Roberta … Brother to Zachary and Spencer … Chose Tech because of its great engineering program, in-state tuition and HOPE scholarship and the chance to run … Greatest athletic achievement was leading the cross country team to its first State Championship in school history … Majors in electrical engineering.
