TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- NCAA West Region XC team champions (2023)
- Pac-12 XC team champions (2023)
- U.S. under-20 XC champion (2023)
Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)
- Mile: 4:00.77
- 1,500: 3:39.39
- 1,600: 3:59.32
- 3,200: 8:39.57
- Three-mile: 13:38.1 (xc)
- 5,000: 14:05.1 (xc)
As a Freshman (2023-24)
Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions * NCAA West Region Champions
- Made collegiate debut at the Virginia Invitational, placing 46th
- Stanford's No. 4 runner at NCAA West Regionals, placing 26th
- Stanford's No. 6 runner at NCAA Championships
International/National Competition
- 16th at World Under-20 Cross Country Championships in Australia
- U.S. U20 champ in 2023
Prior to Stanford
- Ran lifetime 1,500 best of 3:39.39 at the 2023 Bryan Clay Invitational
- The time placed him No. 7 on the all-time high school list with the No. 7 performance ever
- It was second-fastest among high school runners in 2023
- Leo and twin Lex were part of the Newbury Park cross country team that won the 2022 Nike Cross Nationals
- 11th at the Nike Cross Nationals, second in the California Division II race, and second in the CIF-Southern Section Division II final
- At the 2021 Woodbridge Invite in Irvine, Leo clocked 13:38.1, the fastest three-mile high school cross country time in history
- At the 2021 RunningLane Cross Country Nationals, Leo was second in 14:05.1, the second-fastest cross-country 5K of all-time
- Second in the mile at the Nike Outdoor Nationals in 4:02.58, the No. 8 time among high schoolers in 2023
- Ran his mile PB of 4:00.77 at the 2022 Azusa Pacific Meet of Champions Distance Classic
Personal
- Parents are Lynne and Andrew Young
- Brothers are Nico, who runs for Northern Arizona and is among the nation's top collegiate distance runners, and twin Lex, a Stanford teammate
- Leo and Lex have their own YouTube channel, "L&L", where they share their running careers and seek to inspire young runners
- Board member of Doctors of the World, an international humanitarian organization which seeks to provide emergency and long-term medical care to the world's most vulnerable people
Career Results
Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
2023-24 | Cross Country (3) | 8K | 23:58.8 | -- | -- | -- |
10K | 31:31.6 | -- | 26 (29:49.1) | 185 (31:31.6) |