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Young earned track and field All-American honors in the indoor 800-meter run with his fourth-place finish in that event at the 1987 NCAA championships. He also won a state title in that event that season. He was an Independent Collegiate Athletic Conference (ICAC) champ in both the indoor 500-meter run (1987) and the outdoor 800-meter run (1987).

A four-year member of the AU indoor and outdoor teams, he still holds the school record for the 800-meter run in outdoor track and field (1:53.90), set in 1987, and was a member of the indoor distance medley relay team that holds the school record (10:37.21) set in 1984.