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TFRRS Performance Profile

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Career Accolades

  • NCAA individual XC champion (2022)
  • 10-time All-American
  • USTFCCCA National Men's XC Athlete of the Year (2022)
  • USTFCCCA National Men's XC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2022)
  • CoSIDA Academic All-America third team (2022)
  • Two-time European under-23 XC champion (2021, 2022)
  • European under-23 5,000 champion (2023)
  • U.K. under-23 10,000 record holder
  • European and U.K. under-20 10,000 record-holder  
  • Three-time USTFCCCA West Region XC Athlete of the Year (2020-21, 2021, 2022)
  • Two-time West Region XC team champions (2021, 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 XC Athlete of the Year (2021, 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 XC individual champion (2021, 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 10,000-meter champion (2021, 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 XC team champions (2020-21, 2022)
  • Pac-12 XC Freshman of the Year (2020-21)
  • Three-time All-Pac-12 XC first team (2020-21, 2021, 2022)
  • USTFCCCA National XC Athlete of the Week (Oct. 31, 2022)
  • Two-time All-West Region XC (2021, 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 Men's Track Athlete of the Week (April 21, 2021; May 3, 2022)
  • Stanford Athletics Board Bob Murphy Award winner for best moment of the year in Stanford Athletics (2023)
  • Stanford Athletics Board Biff Hoffman Award winner (2023)
  • Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Freshman
  • CoSIDA District 8 All-Academic team for T&F/XC (2022)
  • Six-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2020-21, 2021, 2022; T&F 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • Six-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2021; T&F 2021, winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023)

Personal Records (thru 2023 outdoors)

  • 10,000: 27:40.16
  • 5,000: 13:22.05i
  • 1,500: 3:43.59
  • Mile: 4:07.74
  • 3,000: 7:43.84i

As a Senior (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Two-time first-team All-American (5,000, 10,000)
  • Second in the NCAA 10,000 to teammate Ky Robinson
  • Sixth in the NCAA 5,000
  • Scored 11 points to help Stanford to a third-place NCAA team finish 
  • Won the European under-23 5,000 title in Finland in 13:35.07
  • Won the Stanford Invitational 10,000 in 27:57.47, the fastest collegiate time in the country
  • Payton Jordan Invite 5,000 winner
  • Big Meet 3,000 winner
  • Stanford Athletics Board Biff Hoffman Award winner
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Second-team All-American
  • Placed ninth in the 5,000 at the NCAA Indoor Championships
  • Windy City Invitational 5,000 winner in season-best 13:22.05
  • Moved to No. 3 in the 5,000 in Stanford indoor history
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions * West Region Champions

  • NCAA individual champion
  • First male or female from Stanford to win an NCAA XC individual title
  • USTFCCCA National Men's Athlete of the Year
  • USTFCCCA National Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year
  • Broke course record at NCAA Championships at Oklahoma State
  • All-American
  • Pac-12 individual champion 
  • Repeated title to lead Cardinal to Pac-12 title
  • Repeated as European under-23 champion, representing Great Britain
  • USTFCCCA West Region Men's Athlete of the Year
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Men's Athlete of the Year
  • All-West Region
  • Third-place finish led Stanford to NCAA West Region team title
  • All-Pac-12 first team
  • Set course record at Pac-12 Championships in Riverside, Calif.
  • USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week (Oct. 31, 2022)
  • Stanford Athletics Board Bob Murphy Award winner for best moment of the year in Stanford Athletics

As a Junior (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • First-team All-American
  • Placed sixth in the 10,000 at the NCAA Championships
  • Earned the second of back-to-back Pac-12 championships in the 10,000
  • Ran 10,000 PB (27:40.16), while placing third and first among collegians at the Payton Jordan Invite
  • Broke a 51-year-old British under-23 record held by David Bedford in the same race
  • The time places him No. 2 in Stanford history in the 10,000 and No. 6 in Pac-12 history
  • 15th-fastest 10,000 performance and 14th-fastest performer in collegiate history in season.
  • 27th-fastest 10,000 performance and 16th-fastest performer in collegiate history in or out of season.
  • Moved to No. 6 in the 10,000 on Pac-12's all-time list
  • Ran a PB in the 5,000 of 13:24.58 to place second at the Stanford Invite and move to No. 5 in Stanford history 
  • Pac-12 Men's Track Athlete of the Week (May 3)
  • Advanced to the NCAA Championships in the 10,000 for the second consecutive year
  • CoSIDA Academic All-America third team
  • CoSIDA District 8 All-Academic team
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors 

  • Earned first-team All-America honors by placing third in the 3,000 at the NCAA Championships
  • Ran a 3,000 PB of 7:43.10 at the Pac-12 Invite, placing second to teammate Ky Robinson
  • The time placed him No. 3 in Stanford history
  • Moved to No. 3 in the 3,000, No. 5 in the 5,000, and No. 9 in the DMR on Stanford's all-time indoor list.
  • Ran 13:37.08 at the Husky Invite, placing him No. 5 on Stanford's all-time list
  • Led off DMR at the Alex Wilson Invite, which ran 9:29.57, the ninth-fastest time in school history
  • Ran the 3,000 at the Millrose Games, placing 12th
  • Pac-12 All-Academic Winter Honor Roll

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • All-American
  • Pac-12 champion
  • European Under-23 Championships individual champion
  • USTFCCCA West Region Athlete of the Year
  • Pac-12 Men's Athlete of the Year
  • Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year
  • NCAA West Regional team champions
  • All-West Region
  • All-Pac-12 first team
  • Stanford's No. 1 runner in all five of his collegiate season races
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Sophomore (2020-21)
Outdoors

  • Pac-12 champion in the 10,000
  • First-team All-American in the 10,000
  • Second-team All-American in the 5,000
  • Seventh in the 10,000 at the NCAA Championships
  • Broke British and European under-20 records in the 10,000
  • Among 10 to break the previous NCAA Championships record in the 10,000 from 1979
  • Sixth at British Championships/Olympic Trials in the 5,000
  • Moved to No. 2 on Stanford all-time list in 10,000
  • Moved to No. 6 on the Pac-12 all-time list in the 10,000
  • Qualified for the British Olympic Trials in the 5,000
  • Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Freshman
  • Third in the 5,000 at the Pac-12 Championships
  • Second-fastest winning time in the Pac-12 Championships in 38 years
  • Big Meet winner of the 1,500 and 3,000
  • Pac-12 Men's Track Athlete of the Week (April 21)
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

  • All-American
  • Placed 14th at NCAA Championships
  • USTFCCCA West Region Athlete of the Year
  • No. 1 runner as team placed fifth at NCAA's
  • Pac-12 runner-up, leading Cardinal to team title
  • Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
  • All-Pac-12 first team
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Made collegiate cross country debut with 6th-place finish at Florida State Winter Classic

As a Freshman (2019-20)
Outdoors

  • Season canceled

Indoors

  • Made collegiate debut at the UW Preview, running the 3,000 in 8:20.14
  • Ran 3,000 PB of 8:08.81 at the Husky Classic
  • The time placed him No. 5 on Stanford's all-time freshman list

Cross Country

  • Ran one race unattached, placing fifth at the Bronco Invitational

International Competition

  • Repeated as European under-23 cross country champion, in winning the 2022 race in Piemonte, Italy while running for Great Britain
  • Won the under-23 race at the 2021 European Cross Country Championships in Swords, Ireland
  • Sixth in the 5,000 at the 2021 British Championships and Olympic trials 
  • Fifth at the 2019 European Under-20 Cross Country Championships in Lisbon
  • Second at the 2019 British U20 Cross Country Championships

Prior to Stanford

  • Named Florida's Mr. Track, the state’s top honor for boys track and field while at The Bolles School
  • The state’s fastest runner at 1,600 and 3,200, winning Florida 2A titles in both
  • His 8:49.62 for fourth in the 3,200 at the 2019 Arcadia Invitational was the fastest-ever by a Florida runner in that event
  • Seventh in the Brooks PR Invitational two-mile in a PB of 8:55.53
  • Won the 2018 Nike Cross Southeast Regional title
  • 14th at the 2019 Foot Locker Cross Country Nationals
  • Won the Manhattan Cross Country Invitational Eastern State Championship with the 11th-fastest time ever (12:15.2) on the venerable 2.5-mile course at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx
  • A week earlier, was fourth at the prestigious Great American Cross Country Festival
  • Two-time Florida 2A cross country champion, leading The Bolles School to team titles each time, its first championships since 1985
  • As a sophomore, reached the Foot Locker cross country nationals
  • Ninth at the 2018 Nike Cross Nationals
  • Captured state 2A championships in the 1,600, 3,200, and 4x800 relay in 2018

Personal

  • Parents are David and Margaret Hicks
  • Sisters are Helen and Eliza
  • Born and lived in London until age 12
  • Uncle, John Corse Jr., played tennis at Stanford and cousin Alexa Corse was on the Stanford equestrian team

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2022-23Outdoors (8)10,00027:57.472 (28:25.12)6 (28:22.04)2 (28:12.20)
5,00013:26.65--4 (13:26.65)6 (14:09.03)
3,0008:09.51------
1,5003:47.75------
Indoors (5)5,00013:22.05----9 (14:01.34)
3,0007:47.45------
DMR9:31.02------
Cross Country (5)8K22:30.91 (22:30.9)----
10K28:22.6--3 (28:22.6)1 (28:43.6)
2021-22Outdoors (6)10,00027:40.161 (28:11.17)7 (28:47.37)6 (28:17.88)
5,00013:24.58--19 (13:44.77)--
1,5003:52.88------
Indoors (5)3,0007:43.84----3 (8:00.23)
5,00013:37.08------
DMR9:29.57------
Cross Country (6)8K23:21.91 (23:34.9)----
10K28:47.2--2 (29:29.5)4 (28:47.2)
2020-21Outdoors (7)10,00027:47.631 (28:39.46)9 (29:13.34)7 (27:47.63)
5,00013:33.893 (13:35.60)5 (13:52.98)15 (13:33.89)
3,0008:02.41------
1,5003:43.59------
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (4)8K22:41.62 (22:41.6)----
10K30:21.0----14 (30:21.0)
2019-20Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (4)3,0008:08.8113 (8:08.94)----
Mile4:10.53------
Cross Country (0)----------
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2021-22
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2022-23
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