Jordan Desilets

Jordan Desilets (born December 5, 1980) is an American steeplechase and long-distance runner. Representing the Eastern Michigan Eagles track and field team, he won the 3000 meters steeplechase at the 2004 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Earlier, he won a gold medal in the steeplechase at the 2002 NACAC Under-25 Championships in Athletics. He later transitioned to the marathon, winning the 2010 Detroit Free Press Marathon.

Career Desilets competed for Lake Orion High School in Michigan. He was Michigan High School Athletic Association cross country state runner-up in 1997 and took third place in 1998.

From 1999 to 2004, Desilets ran for the Eastern Michigan Eagles track and field team. He was runner-up in the 2001 Mid-American Conference steeplechase and won the 2002 Penn Relays steeplechase, becoming the second athlete from Eastern Michigan to win a Penn Relays race.

The following year, Desilets was runner-up in the steeplechase at the 2003 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in a personal record time of 8:29.44. He finished 6th in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2003 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. At the 2006 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, he qualified for the steeplechase finals but again did not start. At his second Olympic qualification attempt at the 2008 United States Olympic trials, Desilets finished 8th in the finals and did not make the U.S. team. He worked for running website RunSignup.

In 2018, Desilets was inducted into the Eastern Michigan Eagles hall of fame.