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TFRRS Performance Profile

Career accolades:

• 2019 NCAA indoor heptathlon champion.
• Six-time All-America.
• 2018 Pac-12 decathlon champion.
• Two-time USATF Championships bronze medalist.
• Nine-time Stanford multi-events record-breaker.
• CoSIDA Academic All-America second team.
• Tom Hansen Pac-12 Conference Medal.
• Stanford Athletics Board Biff Hoffman Award.
• School-record holder in the decathlon and heptathlon.

Personal bests (thru 2019):

• Decathlon: 8,188 points
• 100: 10.67, 10.63w
• Long jump: 25-1 3/4 (7.66m)
• Shot put: 45-8 1/2 (13.93m)
• High jump: 6-8 (2.03m)
• 400: 46.66
• 110 hurdles: 13.88
• Discus: 144-4 (44.01m)
• Pole vault: 17-8 1/2 (5.40m)
• Javelin: 184-9 (56.31m)
• 1,500: 4:27.88
• 60 hurdles: 8.10i
• 60: 6.95i
• 1,000: 2:39.45i
• Heptathlon: 6,042i
• 200: 21.35

• Second in NCAA decathlon.
• First-team All-America (decathlon).
• Pac-12 Men's Track and Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
• Three-time NCAA top-six decathlon placer.
• Broke school decathlon record (8,112).
• Broke school decathlon record six times.
• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.
• Big Meet pole vault winner.
• Third at USATF Championships decathlon in school-record 8,188 points.
• Team captain.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic.

• Won NCAA heptathlon championship.
• First-team All-America (heptathlon).
• First Stanford male to win an NCAA multi-events title.
• Broke school record in the heptathlon (6,042).
• Broke school heptathlon record three times.
• Moved to No. 6 on Stanford all-time list in the 60 hurdles.
• MPSF All-Academic.

• Won the Pac-12 title, scoring 7,925 points, in his first home decathlon.
• Became the first Stanford conference decathlon champion in 24 years.
• Won by a margin of 1,641 points.
• Highest score in the Pac-12 decathlon in five years.
• Third in U.S. Championships decathlon, his highest USATF finish, with 7,878 points.
• 7,925 was highest conference point total in five years.
• On personal-record pace after the first day of the NCAA Championships, but fell during hurdles and was unable to complete the competition.
• Big Meet 110 hurdles and pole vault winner.
• Stanford Athletic Board Conference Athlete of the Year.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic selection.
• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.
• Team Captain. 

• Competed in one meet, the UW Indoor Preview, in the 60 hurdles and long jump.

• Redshirted, but competed in some meets unattached.

• Earned first-team All-America honors -- his fourth first-team selection -- by placing sixth in the heptathlon at the NCAA Championships.
• Scored 5,970 points, a school record and personal best.
• It was the highest sixth-place score in NCAA heptathlon history.
• Was 11th before setting a personal best for multis of 17-7 (5.36m) in the pole vault to win that part of the competition.
• Has broken Stanford multi-event records six times -- four times in the decathlon, twice in the heptathlon.
• Placed second at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational heptathlon with 5,828 points.
• Set a personal record in the pole vault at the UW Indoor Preview of 17-8 1/2 (5.40m).
• That put him at No. 3 on Stanford's all-time indoor pole vault performers' list.
• Ran the second leg on the school-record 4x400 relay that placed second at the MPSF Championships.
• Ran a 47.6 split on a team that ran 3:09.80 to break a 14-year-old Stanford mark.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic selection.
• MPSF All-Academic selection.

• First-team All-America in the decathlon, scoring a school-record 8,032 points to place fifth at NCAA's.
• It was the highest fifth-place NCAA score in history.
• Set five personal records in the meet.
• It was the fourth time Williams had broken the Stanford decathlon record and second time during the season.
• At age 20, was more than two months younger than world-record holder and reigning Olympic champion Ashton Eaton was when they first broke the 8,000-point barrier.
• Through the NCAA Championships, Williams set lifetime bests in every multi-event competition he had competed in since being coached by Stanford's Michael Eskind -- 12 in all.
• Ran leadoff for the Pac-12 4x400 relay champion Cardinal.
• The conference victory was the first for a Stanford men's 4x400 or mile relay team since 1954.
• Led off Stanford's school-record 4x400 of 3:05.59, running a 47.0 split at the Michael Johnson Invitational.
• The school 4x400 record had stood since 1978, on a team anchored by James Lofton.
• His 13.88 to win the Payton Jordan Invitational was the second-fastest 110 high hurdles time in Stanford history.
• Competed in the Olympic Trials, where he scored a first-day personal record of 4,144 points.
• Closed the first day of the Trials with a PB 46.66 in the 400, placing second only to Ashton Eaton.
• CoSIDA Academic All-America third team.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic team.
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
• Big Meet 4x400 relay and pole vault winner.
• Pac-12 Men's Field Athlete of the Week (April 6).
• Texas Relays decathlon winner.

Indoors

• Placed fourth at the NCAA Championships, scoring 5,937 points.
• Broke Josh Hustedt's school record by 100 points.
• Broke four personal records during the competition.
• Won the 1,000, the final event, in a PB 2:39.75.
• Scored a personal best 5,690 points to win the Penn State National heptathlon and strengthen his hold on the No. 2 spot in school indoor history.
• Established the score without setting any personal records.
• Pole vaulted in three other meets, twice setting PBs.
• His best of 17-3 1/2 placed him seventh in the pole vault at the Don Kirby Elite.
• Was ninth in the pole vault (16-10) at the MPSF Championships.
• Ran on his first Stanford relay, taking the second leg in the Cardinal's sixth-place 4x400 at the MPSF Championships.

As a Freshman (2015):
Outdoors

• Broke the American junior decathlon record, scoring a meet-record 8,037 points to win the gold medal at the Pan Am Junior Track and Field Championships in Edmonton, Canada.
• Needed at least 4:32.00 in the final event, the 1,500 meters, to break the 8,018 mark for those 19 and under set by Gunnar Nixon in 2012. Williams ran a personal-record 4:29.20.
• The 8,037 total does not count as a Stanford record (which is 7,806) because, under junior rules, a lighter discus and shot and lower high hurdles were used than in collegiate competition.
• Athlete of the Week by USA Track and Field (Aug. 5) for his performances at Pan Ams.
• Fourth in the decathlon at the NCAA outdoor championships, breaking his own school record with 7,806 points.
• That was the highest NCAA finish ever for a Stanford decathlete.
• The total moved him to No. 2 on the all-time United States junior list (19 and under) for using senior-level implements and high-hurdle heighth.
• Broke Stanford's oldest record -- Bob Mathias' 1952 Olympic-winning effort of 7,592 points (converted to reflect currect scoring tables) -- while placing second at the Pac-12 Championships with 7,679 points.
• Repeated as U.S. junior champion by scoring 8,001 points at the U.S. Junior Championships.
• The total (using junior-level implements and high-hurdle height) was 17 points off the American junior record and placed him No. 3 all-time on the U.S. junior list.
• In his collegiate outdoor debut, scored 7,518 points to place second overall and first among collegians, at the Texas Relays.
• Total of 7,518 placed him third all-time at Stanford and came within 74 points of Bob Mathias' 1952 school-record of 7,592c.
• The score was a Stanford freshman record and placed him No. 7 on the all-time U.S. junior list.
• Stanford Athletic Board Block ‘S’ Outstanding Male Freshman.
• Pac-12 Men’s Track Athlete of the Week  (March 30).

Indoors

• Placed second in the seven-event heptathlon at the MPSF Championships, with a score of 5,539 points, only four shy of first.
• Total made him No. 2 in Stanford history.
• Made collegiate debut at the UW Indoor Preview on Jan. 17, placing 10th in the 60 hurdles (8.33), sixth in the pole vault (season best 16-2 3/4), and second in the 4x400 (3:16.52).

International/National:

• Captured third at the 2019 U.S. Championships, scoring a PB 8,188 points.
• Captured third at the 2018 U.S. Championships, his highest national finish, scoring 7,878 points.
• In his first senior competition in a United States singlet, Williams placed second at the 2016 Thorpe Cup, a multi-event dual between the U.S. and Germany, at University of Arkansas.
• Scored 7,849 points, finishing just 27 points from victory.
• Was in sixth place at the 2016 Olympic Trials with 5,753 points after seven events, and seven points behind his school-record pace, when he failed to clear his first height, of 15-7.
• Continued on and finished 15th with 6,951 points.
• Won the 2015 Pan Am Junior Championships decathlon in Edmonton, setting a U.S. junior record of 8,037 points.
• Placed sixth in the decathlon at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, scoring a personal best 7,760 points.

High School:

• In scoring 7,760 at the 2014 world juniors, he broke the national high school record of 7,748 by Gunnar Nixon of Santa Fe (Edmond, Okla.) in 2011.
• It made him equal to the fourth-highest ever among U.S. junior men (19 and younger).
• He also became the No. 3 U.S. junior performer all-time.
• Set six personal bests in the competiton, including the final two events, helping him move up from 16th place after three events.
• Won the 2014 U.S. junior national title with a then-PR of 7,734.
• At Memphis (Tenn.) University School, he won five state Division II titles in both 2013 and 2014.
• Won state titles in the decathlon, 110 high hurdles, 300 intermediate hurdles, high jump, and pole vault..
• Scored 7,181 points in the 2013 runner-up finish in the 17-18 USATF Junior Olympic championships. 
• Won the prestigious Arcadia Invitational decathlon and New Balance Outdoor Nationals octathlon in 2013.

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