Taylor James_SG_03292024_142

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • All-American (Indoor T&F 2024)
  • Three-time NCAA West Region XC team champions (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (T&F 2023, 2024)
  • Four-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (T&F winter 2023, 2024; spring 2023, 2024)

As a Junior (2023-24)
Outdoors 

  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 800
  • Ran season 800 best of 2:06.71 while placing second in the Big Meet
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Second-team All-American
  • Ran third leg on 10th place distance medley relay team at NCAA Championships
  • Ran season best 800 of 2:06.67 at Ken Shannon Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • Did not compete

As a Sophomore (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800
  • Placed 20th overall at the NCAA Championships
  • Placed 10th overall at the NCAA West Prelims in a personal best 2:04.90
  • Earned a PB of 2:04.97 a day earlier
  • Had three PBs in the 800 during the outdoor season
  • Anchored Stanford to victory in the 4x400 relay at the Big Meet
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Made collegiate debut at the UW Indoor Preview in the 400 and 4x400
  • Reached season 800 best of 2:07.22 at the Ken Shannon Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • Did not compete

As a Freshman (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country

  • Did not compete

Prior to Stanford

  • Won seven Colorado 4A track titles despite 2020 season being canceled
  • Fourth in 800 at 2021 Outdoor Nationals
  • Triple winner at the 2021 Colorado 4A Championships, winning the 200, 400, and 4x100 relay, leading Niwot to the team title
  • 2020 Gatorade Colorado Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year
  • Outstanding range, from 100 to 5,000
  • 2019 Colorado 4A Girls Athlete of the Year
  • Broke the 4A state meet record in the 800 held by Stanford's Elise Cranny, running 2:08.29
  • Clocked her best 800 of 2:05.83 in winning the Music City Distance Carnival in Memphis, Tenn.
  • Four-time 4A champion at the 2019 state meet, winning the 200, 400, 800, and 4x400, repeating in the 800
  • In cross country, was the runner-up at the 2018 4A State Championships while helping Niwot to the title
  • Capped her sophomore campaign with 35th at Nike Cross Nationals
  • Selected by the National Scholastic Athletics Foundation to compete with seven other American high school students in the Reykjavík (Iceland) International Games, winning silver in the 800

Personal

  • Parents are Randy and Jana James
  • Dual citizen of the U.S. and Czech Republic
  • Grandmother Jana Veverkova (200, 4x100) and grandfather Zdenek Veverka (triple jump) were Czech track and field national record-holders

Career Results

Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2023-24 Outdoors (6) 800 2:06.71 11 (2:07.13) 31 (2:08.21) --
    4x400 3:43.36 -- -- --
  Indoors (6) 800 2:06.67 -- -- --
    600 1:30.71 -- -- --
    DMR 10:47.03 -- -- 10 (11:03.99)
    4x400 3:46.82 -- -- --
  Cross Country (0) -- -- -- -- --
2022-23 Outdoors (7) 800 2:04.90 7 (2:07.10) 10 (2:04.90) 20 (2:06.25)
    400 56.41 -- -- --
    4x400 3:39.03 -- -- --
  Indoors (4) 800 2:07.22 -- -- --
    400 56.48 -- -- --
    4x400 3:41.09 -- -- --
    DMR 11:10.89 -- -- --
  Cross Country (0) -- -- -- -- --
2021-22 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Cross Country (0) -- -- -- -- --
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2022-23
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