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TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

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

As a Junior (2023-24)
Outdoors

  • Second in Big Meet steeplechase
  • Season best 5,000 of 14:21.41 came at Payton Jordan Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
    Indoors
  • Season mile best of 4:08.32 came at Ken Shannon Invite
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

    Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions West Region Champions
  • Did not compete

As a Sophomore (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Ran a season-best 3,000 of 8:13.03 at the Windy City Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • 27th at Pac-12 Championships
  • Alternate for NCAA Championships

As a Freshman (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 10,000
  • Broke the Stanford freshmen record in the 10,000 with 28:44.15 at the Mt. SAC Relays
  • Ran 5,000 PB of 13:54.23 at the Stanford Invitational 
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

Indoors

  • Made collegiate track debut with a PB in the 3,00 of 8:08.53 at the UW Indoor Preview
  • Ran 14:03.79 in the 5,000 at the Husky Classic

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • Placed 35th at the Pac-12 Championships as team's No. 6 runner
  • Made collegiate debut at the USF Invitational, placing 15th

Prior to Stanford

  • Sixth in the Brooks PR Invitational in the two-mile, in a lifetime best 8:51.83
  • Fifth in the Arcadia Invitational 3,200 in 8:52.95
  • Double winner at the Central Coast Section Championships, in the 1,600 and 3,200
  • His CCS winning time of 4:07.97 for 1,600 was a personal best
  • Ran 14:45.30 on a three-mile cross country race in Dublin, Calif.
  • A 2019 Foot Locker national cross country finalist, placing 30th after taking seventh in the West Regional
  • Tenth at the 2019 California state track championships in the 3,200 as a sophomore
  • In cross country, helped Bellarmine to the 2019 CCS Division I title and a team-time course record at Crystal Springs in Belmont
  • Helped Bells to third in the State Division I cross country race, placing sixth as an individual
  • At the Desert Twilight Festival XC in Arizona in 2020, placed seventh in the unattached/club sweepstakes race, running 15:13.17 for 5,000

Personal

  • Twin of Bellarmine Prep and Stanford teammate Galen
  • Sons of an ultramarathoner father
  • Coached in middle school by former Stanford star and former women's head cross country coach Dena Dey Evans

Career Results

Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2023-24 Outdoors (4) 5,000 14:21.41 23 (15:37.14) -- --
    10,000 31:32.55 16 (31:32.55) -- --
    Steeple 9:37.41 -- -- --
    3,000 8:51.99 -- -- --
  Indoors (4) Mile 4:08.32 -- -- --
    3,000 8:22.67 -- -- --
    1,000 2:29.41 -- -- --
  Cross Country (0) -- -- -- -- --
2022-23 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (2) 3,000 8:13.03 -- -- --
    5,000 14:18.72 -- -- --
  Cross Country (4) 8K 23:43.7 27 (23:43.7) -- --
2021-22 Outdoors (6) 10,000 28:44.15 10 (29:06.76) 40 (30:16.89) --
    5,000 13:54.23 34 (14:52.68) -- --
    3,000 8:17.27 -- -- --
    1,500 3:47.47 -- -- --
    800 1:56.30 -- -- --
  Indoors (4) 5,000 14:03.79 --    
    3,000 8:08.53 --    
    Mile 4:07.36 --    
  Cross Country (4) 8K 24:11.8 35 (25:15.2) -- --