Charles Hicks Season 2022

TFRRS Performance Profile

Video feature

• 2022: Better Together, with Ky Robinson, Cole Sprout (GoStanford.com)

Career Accolades

• NCAA individual XC champion (2022)
• 10-time All-American
• USTFCCCA National Men's XC Athlete of the Year (2022)
• USTFCCCA National Men's XC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2022)
• CoSIDA Academic All-America third team (2022)
• Two-time European under-23 XC champion (2021, 2022)
• European under-23 5,000 champion (2023)
• U.K. under-23 10,000 record holder
• European and U.K. under-20 10,000 record-holder  
• Three-time USTFCCCA West Region XC Athlete of the Year (2020-21, 2021, 2022)
• Two-time West Region XC team champions (2021, 2022)
• Two-time Pac-12 XC Athlete of the Year (2021, 2022)
• Two-time Pac-12 XC individual champion (2021, 2022)
• Two-time Pac-12 10,000-meter champion (2021, 2022)
• Two-time Pac-12 XC team champions (2020-21, 2022)
• Pac-12 XC Freshman of the Year (2020-21)
• Three-time All-Pac-12 XC first team (2020-21, 2021, 2022)
• USTFCCCA National XC Athlete of the Week (Oct. 31, 2022)
• Two-time All-West Region XC (2021, 2022)
• Two-time Pac-12 Men's Track Athlete of the Week (April 21, 2021; May 3, 2022)
• Stanford Athletics Board Bob Murphy Award winner for best moment of the year in Stanford Athletics (2023)
• Stanford Athletics Board Biff Hoffman Award winner (2023)
• Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Freshman
• CoSIDA District 8 All-Academic team for T&F/XC (2022)
• Six-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2020-21, 2021, 2022; T&F 2021, 2022, 2023)
• Six-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2021; T&F 2021, winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023)

Personal Records (thru 2023 outdoors)

• 10,000: 27:40.16
• 5,000: 13:22.05i
• 1,500: 3:43.59
• Mile: 4:07.74
• 3,000: 7:43.84i

As a Senior (2022-23)
Outdoors

• Two-time first-team All-American (5,000, 10,000)
• Second in the NCAA 10,000 to teammate Ky Robinson
• Sixth in the NCAA 5,000
• Scored 11 points to help Stanford to a third-place NCAA team finish 
• Won the European under-23 5,000 title in Finland in 13:35.07
• Won the Stanford Invitational 10,000 in 27:57.47, the fastest collegiate time in the country
• Payton Jordan Invite 5,000 winner
• Big Meet 3,000 winner
• Stanford Athletics Board Biff Hoffman Award winner
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

• Second-team All-American
• Placed ninth in the 5,000 at the NCAA Indoor Championships
• Windy City Invitational 5,000 winner in season-best 13:22.05
• Moved to No. 3 in the 5,000 in Stanford indoor history
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions * West Region Champions

• NCAA individual champion
• First male or female from Stanford to win an NCAA XC individual title
• USTFCCCA National Men's Athlete of the Year
• USTFCCCA National Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• Broke course record at NCAA Championships at Oklahoma State
• All-American
• Pac-12 individual champion 
• Repeated title to lead Cardinal to Pac-12 title
• Repeated as European under-23 champion, representing Great Britain
• USTFCCCA West Region Men's Athlete of the Year
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Men's Athlete of the Year
• All-West Region
• Third-place finish led Stanford to NCAA West Region team title
• All-Pac-12 first team
• Set course record at Pac-12 Championships in Riverside, Calif.
• USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week (Oct. 31, 2022)
• Stanford Athletics Board Bob Murphy Award winner for best moment of the year in Stanford Athletics

As a Junior (2021-22)
Outdoors

• First-team All-American
• Placed sixth in the 10,000 at the NCAA Championships
• Earned the second of back-to-back Pac-12 championships in the 10,000
• Ran 10,000 PB (27:40.16), while placing third and first among collegians at the Payton Jordan Invite
• Broke a 51-year-old British under-23 record held by David Bedford in the same race
• The time places him No. 2 in Stanford history in the 10,000 and No. 6 in Pac-12 history
• 15th-fastest 10,000 performance and 14th-fastest performer in collegiate history in season.
• 27th-fastest 10,000 performance and 16th-fastest performer in collegiate history in or out of season.
• Moved to No. 6 in the 10,000 on Pac-12's all-time list
• Ran a PB in the 5,000 of 13:24.58 to place second at the Stanford Invite and move to No. 5 in Stanford history 
• Pac-12 Men's Track Athlete of the Week (May 3)
• Advanced to the NCAA Championships in the 10,000 for the second consecutive year
• CoSIDA Academic All-America third team
• CoSIDA District 8 All-Academic team
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors 

• Earned first-team All-America honors by placing third in the 3,000 at the NCAA Championships
• Ran a 3,000 PB of 7:43.10 at the Pac-12 Invite, placing second to teammate Ky Robinson
• The time placed him No. 3 in Stanford history
• Moved to No. 3 in the 3,000, No. 5 in the 5,000, and No. 9 in the DMR on Stanford's all-time indoor list.
• Ran 13:37.08 at the Husky Invite, placing him No. 5 on Stanford's all-time list
• Led off DMR at the Alex Wilson Invite, which ran 9:29.57, the ninth-fastest time in school history
• Ran the 3,000 at the Millrose Games, placing 12th
• Pac-12 All-Academic Winter Honor Roll

Cross Country * West Region Champions

• All-American
• Pac-12 champion
• European Under-23 Championships individual champion
• USTFCCCA West Region Athlete of the Year
• Pac-12 Men's Athlete of the Year
• Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• NCAA West Regional team champions
• All-West Region
• All-Pac-12 first team
• Stanford's No. 1 runner in all five of his collegiate season races
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Sophomore (2020-21)
Outdoors

• Pac-12 champion in the 10,000
• First-team All-American in the 10,000
• Second-team All-American in the 5,000
• Seventh in the 10,000 at the NCAA Championships
• Broke British and European under-20 records in the 10,000
• Among 10 to break the previous NCAA Championships record in the 10,000 from 1979
• Sixth at British Championships/Olympic Trials in the 5,000
• Moved to No. 2 on Stanford all-time list in 10,000
• Moved to No. 6 on the Pac-12 all-time list in the 10,000
• Qualified for the British Olympic Trials in the 5,000
• Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Freshman
• Third in the 5,000 at the Pac-12 Championships
• Second-fastest winning time in the Pac-12 Championships in 38 years
• Big Meet winner of the 1,500 and 3,000
• Pac-12 Men's Track Athlete of the Week (April 21)
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

• Did not compete

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

• All-American
• Placed 14th at NCAA Championships
• USTFCCCA West Region Athlete of the Year
• No. 1 runner as team placed fifth at NCAA's
• Pac-12 runner-up, leading Cardinal to team title
• Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
• All-Pac-12 first team
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Made collegiate cross country debut with 6th-place finish at Florida State Winter Classic

As a Freshman (2019-20)
Outdoors

• Season canceled

Indoors

• Made collegiate debut at the UW Preview, running the 3,000 in 8:20.14
• Ran 3,000 PB of 8:08.81 at the Husky Classic
• The time placed him No. 5 on Stanford's all-time freshman list

Cross Country

• Ran one race unattached, placing fifth at the Bronco Invitational

International Competition

• Repeated as European under-23 cross country champion, in winning the 2022 race in Piemonte, Italy while running for Great Britain
• Won the under-23 race at the 2021 European Cross Country Championships in Swords, Ireland
• Sixth in the 5,000 at the 2021 British Championships and Olympic trials 
• Fifth at the 2019 European Under-20 Cross Country Championships in Lisbon
• Second at the 2019 British U20 Cross Country Championships

Prior to Stanford

• Named Florida's Mr. Track, the state’s top honor for boys track and field while at The Bolles School
• The state’s fastest runner at 1,600 and 3,200, winning Florida 2A titles in both
• His 8:49.62 for fourth in the 3,200 at the 2019 Arcadia Invitational was the fastest-ever by a Florida runner in that event
• Seventh in the Brooks PR Invitational two-mile in a PB of 8:55.53
• Won the 2018 Nike Cross Southeast Regional title
• 14th at the 2019 Foot Locker Cross Country Nationals
• Won the Manhattan Cross Country Invitational Eastern State Championship with the 11th-fastest time ever (12:15.2) on the venerable 2.5-mile course at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx
• A week earlier, was fourth at the prestigious Great American Cross Country Festival
• Two-time Florida 2A cross country champion, leading The Bolles School to team titles each time, its first championships since 1985
• As a sophomore, reached the Foot Locker cross country nationals
• Ninth at the 2018 Nike Cross Nationals
• Captured state 2A championships in the 1,600, 3,200, and 4x800 relay in 2018

Personal

• Parents are David and Margaret Hicks
• Sisters are Helen and Eliza
• Born and lived in London until age 12
• Uncle, John Corse Jr., played tennis at Stanford and cousin Alexa Corse was on the Stanford equestrian team

Career Results