Caroline Wells_JPL_04262024_00238

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • Two-time All-West Region XC (2019, 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 team XC champion (2019, 2020-21)
  • Three-time NCAA West Region team champions (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2023; T&F 2024)

As a Graduate Student (2023-24)
Outdoors

  • Raced twice during outdoor season
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • Raced in her third NCAA Cross Country Championships
  • Stanford's No. 7 at NCAA's
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Senior (2022-23) 
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions

  • All-West Region
  • Placed 25th at NCAA West Regional
  • Stanford's No. 6 runner at NCAA Championships
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

As a Junior (2021-22)

  • Did not compete

As a Sophomore (2020-21)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

  • Raced twice for Cardinal
  • Placed 112th at the Florida State Winter Classic and was fourth in the B race at the UNLV Battle Born Challenge

As a Freshman (2019-20)
Outdoors

  • Season canceled

Indoors

  • Placed fourth in the 5,000 at the MPSF Championships, in her first track race at that distance
  • Ran 3,000 personal best of 9:22.69 at the Husky Classic

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

  • USTFCCCA All-West Region
  • No. 4 Stanford runner at the NCAA Championships
  • Helped Stanford to third in NCAA as a team
  • Was the only freshman in Stanford's NCAA lineup
  • No. 6 runner on Stanford's Pac-12 championship team
  • 19th in NCAA West Region championships

Prior to Stanford:

  • Nine-time Arizona state champion at Chaparral High School
  • 2018 Gatorade Arizona Cross Country Runner of the Year
  • Won three consecutive state cross country championships: 2018 in Division I and 2016 and 2017 in Division II
  • Placed third in the 2018 Nike Cross Nationals Southwest regional and 10th in the NXN final
  • Won the 1,600 and 3,200 meters at three consecutive Arizona state championship meets: 2019 in Division I and 2017 and 2018 in Division II
  • Ran 3,200 PB of 8:21.21 at the 2019 Arcadia Invitational
  • State champion in lacrosse at Chaparral High

Personal:

  • Daughter of Tom and Gail Archer
  • Has an older sibling, Ali
  • Anticipates a career as a biomedical engineer
  • Was president of Circle the City Club, which worked to gather donations for a nonprofit respite center in Phoenix to provide healthcare to the homeless and work towards reintegration of homeless individuals into society

Career Results

Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2023-24 Outdoors (2) 10,000 35:04.41 -- -- --
    3,000 9:48.26 -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Cross Country (6) 6K 20:07.3 26 (20:07.3) 29 (20:19.5) 208 (21:40.1)
    5K 17:56.5 -- -- --
2022-23 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Cross Country (5) 6K 19:54.7 -- 25 (19:54.7) 206 (21:25.1)
2021-22 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Cross Country (0) -- -- -- -- --
2020-21 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Cross Country (2) 6K 21:14.2 -- -- --
2019-20 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (4) 5,000 16:21.48 4 (16:21.48): -- --
    3,000 9:22.49 -- -- --
    Mile 4:55.36 -- -- --
  Cross Country (4) 6K 20:26.2 26 (20:28.6) 19 (20:26.6) 53 (20:58.7)