Thomas Boyden_20240512 PAC-12 TRACK KL408

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • First-team All-Pac-12 XC (2022)
  • All-West Region XC (2022)
  • Three-time West Region XC team champions (2021, 2022, 2023) 
  • Three-time Pac-12 XC team champions (2020-21, 2022, 2023)
  • Three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Five-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2021; T&F winter 2023, 2024; spring 2022, 2024)

As a Senior (2023-24)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 1,500
  • Pac-12 1,500 finalist
  • Ran personal record 1,500 of 3:45.68 at NCAA West Prelims
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Broke four minutes in the mile with a season-best 3:59.27 at the Ken Shannon Invite
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions West Region Champions

  • Did not compete

As a Junior (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Became Stanford's 21st sub-4 miler, running 3:57.06 for third at the UW Indoor Preview
  • The time placed him No. 4 on Stanford's all-time indoor mile list and broke a PB by seven seconds
  • Ran only two races during the season, each a big PB
  • Clocked 7:54.34 -- 12-second PB -- to place 12th in the 3,000 at the Razorback Invite
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions West Region Champions

  • Placed seventh at Pac-12 Championships
  • First-team All-Pac-12
  • All-West Region
  • Placed 23rd at NCAA West Region Championships
  • Stanford's No. 5 runner on fourth-place NCAA Championships team

As a Sophomore (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 5,000 and 10,000
  • Ran 5,000 PB of 13:37.39 while placing fifth at the Pac-12 Championships
  • Missed advancing to the NCAA Championships in the 10,000 by one place and the 5,000 by two spots. 
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • Placed sixth in season-opening Florida State Open
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Freshman (2020-21)
Outdoors

  • Moved to No. 5 in 5,000 on Stanford freshman list
  • Advanced to NCAA West Prelims in the 5,000
  • Ran 5,000 PB of 13:42.63 at Pac-12 Championships

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

  • Stanford's No. 8 runner on Pac-12 Championship team, placing 26th
  • Was among five freshmen among Stanford's top eight runners
  • Made collegiate debut by placing 34th on March 5 at the Florida State Winter Classic as Stanford's No. 6 runner

Prior to Stanford

  • Ran outdoor mile in 4:04.50 in 2020 in El Dorado Hills, Calif. 
  • 2020 Gatorade Utah Boys’ Track and Field Player of the Year
  • Two-time qualifier for the Foot Locker national cross country championships
  • Placed 13th in 2018 and 12th in 2019 at Foot Locker nationals
  • Third in the 2019 Foot Locker West Regionals
  • Utah state record-holder in the 1,600 and 3,200. 
  • Utah 5A 2019 track runner-up in the 1,600 and 3,200
  • Times in the 1,600 (4:11.13) and 3,200 (8:57.79) were the fastest in Utah in 2019

Personal

  • Parents are Tom and Sarah Boyden
  • Has five younger siblings: Lily, Annie, Jacob, Alexander, and Vivienne
  • Mother, Sarah, ran for BYU
  • Lived in Spain for three years, from first grade through third
  • Lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for five years before family returned to Salt Lake City

Career Results

Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2023-24 Outdoors (5) 1,500 3:45.68 10 (3:59.90) 38 (3:45.68) --
    5,000 14:44.68 11 (14:44.68) -- --
    800 1:56.43 -- -- --
  Indoors (4) Mile 3:59.27 -- -- --
  Cross Country (0) -- -- -- -- --
2022-23 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (2) Mile 3:57.06 -- -- --
    3,000 7:54.34 -- -- --
  Cross Country (5) 8K 22:55.9 7 (22:55.9) -- --
    10K 28:57.2 -- 23 (28:57.2) 75 (29:59.7)
2021-22 Outdoors (6) 5,000 13:37.39 5 (13:37.39) 13 (13:38.78) --
    10,000 28:44.67 -- 13 (28:57.88) --
    1,500 3:55.82 -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Cross Country (2) 8K 24:02.3 -- -- --
2020-21 Outdoors (5) 5,000 13:42.63 9 (13:42.63) 25 (14:19.49) --
    1,500 3:45.85 -- -- --
    3,000 8:03.43 -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Cross Country (3) 8K 23:38.9 26 (23:38.9) -- --