Liam Anderson Season 2023-24
PositionDISTANCE
ClassSenior
HometownCorte Madera, Calif.
TFRRS perfomance profile
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Career Accolades
- Two-time Pac-12 team champion (2022, 2023)
- Three-time West Region XC champions (2021, 2022, 2023)
- Stanford Athletics Board Spirit of Stanford Award winner (2023)
- Four-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2021, 2023; T&F spring 2022; T&F winter 2023)
Personal Records (thru 2023 outdoors)
- 3,000: 8:13.06i
- Mile: 4:16.14
As a Graduate Student (2023-24)
Cross Country
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
- Raced in fourth Pac-12 Championships
As a Senior (2022-23)
Outdoors
- Stanford Athletics Board Spirit of Stanford Award winner.
- Did not compete
Indoors
- Raced once, in the 3,000 at the Windy City Invitational.
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.
Cross Country • Pac-12 Champions • West Region Champions
- Placed 48th at Pac-12 Championships
As a Junior (2021-22)
Outdoors
- Raced in the 3,000 at the Big Meet
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Did not compete.
Cross Country • West Region Champions
- Stanford's No. 7 runner on NCAA West Region championship team
- Team's No. 5 runner at Pac-12 Championships, placing 26th
- Made collegiate cross-country debut at Florida State Open, placing 35th
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2021)
As a Sophomore (2020-21)
Outdoors
- Did not compete
Indoors
- Did not compete
Cross Country
- Did not compete.
As a Freshman (2019-20)
Outdoors
- Season canceled.
Indoors
- Made collegiate debut in the 3,000 at the UW Preview.
- Ran season best of 8:13.06 at the Husky Classic.
Cross Country
- Ran the Bronco Invitational unattached, but otherwise did not compete
Prior to Stanford
- Gatorade National Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year at Redwood High School
- 2018 Nike Cross Nationals champion in course-record time
- Ran 14:57.6 over 5K to win by more than three seconds
- California Gatorade Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year
- The first from Northern California to receive the honor since German Fernandez in 2007
- Two-time California Division III cross country champion
- 2018 California state 1,600-meter track champion in 4:09.31
- Three-time NXN qualifier and a third-place finisher in 2017
- Captured five North Coast Section Meet of Champions track titles: three in the 1,600 and two in the 3,200
- His 3,200 best of 8:51.89 came at the 2019 Arcadia Invitational
- Set 1,600 PB of 4:08.96 while winning the Marin County Athletic League title
Personal
- Co-President of the Stanford Student-Athlete Advisory Committee
Career Results:
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2023-24 | Cross Country (4) | 8K | 24:30.8 | 52 (24:30.8) | -- | -- |
| 2022-23 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (1) | 3,000 | 8:24.77 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (4) | 8K | 24:22.8 | 48 (24:41.6) | -- | -- | |
| 2021-22 | Outdoors (1) | 3,000 | 8:53.64 | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (4) | 8K | 24:50.7 | 26 (24:50.7) | -- | -- | |
| 10K | 31:11.4 | -- | 63 (31:11.4) | -- | ||
| 2020-21 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2019-20 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (3) | 3,000 | 8:13.06 | 44 (8:31.96) | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |