TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- Two-time Pac-12 team champions (2018, 2020-21)
- USTFCCCA All-Academic (T&F 2020)
- Two-time MPSF All-Academic(2019, 2020)
- Two-time Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention (XC 2018, T&F 2019)
Personal Bests (thru 2022)
- 5,000: 13:59.89ii
- 10,000: 29:06.84
- Steeplechase: 8:57.59
- Mile: 4:08.41i
- 3,000: 8:07.46i
- 1,500: 3:50.93
As a Fifth-Year Senior (2021-22)
Outdoors
- Added the steeplechase and ran a PB of 8:57.59 at the Mt. SAC Relays
- Season 5,000 best of 14:08.71 at the Stanford Invitational
Indoors
- Raced once, in the 5,000 at the Husky Classic
Cross Country
- Did not compete
As a Senior (2020-21)
Outdoors
- Ran one race, winning the 1,500 in his debut at that distance, at the Hornet Invitational
Indoors
- Did not compete
Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions
- Placed 29th at Pac-12 Championships, his best conference finish
- Stanford's No. 9 runner at Pac-12's, helping Cardinal to team title
As a Junior (2019-20)
Outdoors
- Season canceled
Indoors
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Ran his first sub-14 in the 5,000 at the Husky Classic, placing 14th in 13:59.89
- Earned highest conference finish by placing ninth in the 5,000 at the MPSF Championships
- MPSF All-Academic
Cross Country
- Raced once unattached, placing second at the Bronco Invitational
As a Sophomore (2018-19)
Outdoors
- Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 10,000
- Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
- Ran 10,000 PB of 29:06.84 at the Stanford Invitational
Indoors
- Ran 5,000 PB of 14:02.09 at the Husky Classic
- MPSF All-Academic
Cross Country • Pac-12 Champions
- Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
- Competed in first NCAA Championships
- Stanford's No. 6 runner on fifth-place NCAA team
As a Freshman (2017-18)
Outdoors
- Ran in three races unattached
- Set personal best in the 5,000 of 14:22.54 at the Portland Track Festival
Indoors
- Did not compete
Cross Country
- Made collegiate debut at Dellinger Invitational, placing 37th
- Third at Doc Adams Open in Davis
- Finished third at the 2018 U.S. junior national cross country championships in Tallahasee, Fla.
National/International Competition
- Represented the U.S. at the 2018 Pan Am/NACAC Under-20 cross country championships in El Salvador, placing eighth
- Finished third at the 2018 U.S. junior national cross country championships in Tallahasee, Fla.
Prior to Stanford
- No. 4 two-miler in the nation for 2017 at 8:49.36 while at Davis Senior High School
- Ran the time while placing fourth at the Brooks PR meet
- California state Division I cross country runner-up
- Fourth in state 3,200 final in 2016 and 2017
- Made huge strides between his sophomore and junior year, going from 124th in state Division I meet to 10th at the Foot Locker nationals in one year
- At Sac-Joaquin Section cross country championships, won in 2015 and second in 2016
- Placed 23rd at 2016 Nike Cross Nationals
- 2016 Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Meet 3,200 champ and 2017 runner-up
- Second in seeded race at Stanford XC Invite, in a fast 14:47.6 over 5K
- Teammate at Davis High with future Stanford runner Fiona O'Keeffe
- Was coached at Davis by Bill Gregg, the father of former Stanford All-America runner Brendan Gregg
- Helped Blue Devils to two Sac-Joaquin Section track titles and one section cross country crown
Personal
- Parents are Bill and Karen Vernau
- Has a younger sister, Lindsey
- Founder of a nonprofit company that collected and delivered unused soccer gear to underprivileged kids and teams around the world
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2021-22 | Outdoors (4) | Steeple | 8:57.59 | 13 (9:03.63) | -- | -- |
| 5,000 | 14:08.71 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 3,000 | 8:23.65 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1,500 | 3:50.93 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (1) | 5,000 | 15:01.91 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2020-21 | Outdoors (1) | 1,500 | 3:51.03 | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (3) | 8K | 23:36.7 | 29 (23:45.9) | -- | -- | |
| 2019-20 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (4) | 5,000 | 13:59.89 | 9 (14:18.46) | -- | -- | |
| 3,000 | 8:08.71 | 23 (8:18.28) | -- | -- | ||
| Mile | 4:14.22 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2018-19 | Outdoors (5) | 10,000 | 29:06.84 | 10 (30:07.88) | 32 (29:53.44) | -- |
| 5,000 | 14:13.60 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 3,000 | 8:15.13 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (4) | 5,000 | 14:02.09 | 10 (14:06.00) | -- | -- | |
| 3,000 | 8:07.46 | 18 (8:10.93) | -- | -- | ||
| Mile | 4:08.41 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (5) | 8K | 24:07.1 | 38 (24:07.1) | -- | -- | |
| 10K | 30:35.1 | -- | 47 (30:35.1) | 137 (30:58.7) | ||
| 2017-18 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (5) | 8K | 24:19.0 | -- | -- | -- |