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Blake Nelson
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Mill Creek, Wash.
- High School:
- Jackson
Bio
2016 All-America First Team (DMR) and honorable mention (1,500m)
2014 All-America First Team (DMR)
2014 Drake Relays Champion (4x1600m)
2016-17 (Track): Capped off his stellar career by scoring at the Pac-12 Championships for the first time in the 1,500-meters and reaching NCAA West Preliminaries for the third time … made the Pac-12 1,500m final for the first time by running 3:48.40 in the prelims, then ran 3:56.48 in a tactical final to place seventh … finished 36th overall in the NCAA West Prelims 1,500m first round in Austin … ran a season-best 1,500-meters time of 3:43.89 at the Bryan Clay Invitational … fifth in the 800-meters at the OSU High Performance Meet in a time of 1:50.66 … indoors, took eighth in the MPSF Championships mile in a season-best time of 4:04.34 … also ran 4:04.38 for the mile at the UW Indoor Preview … set an indoor PR of 1:51.17 in the 800m at the UW Invitational … earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention ... (Cross Country): A limited fall season … started strong with a 14th-place finish at the Sundodger Invite in 24:44, the third Husky finisher … finished 24th at the Washington Invitational in 24:22, sixth on the squad … started the Pac-12 Championships in Tucson but did not finish … earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2015-16 (Track): A great season saw him compete at nationals indoors on the DMR and outdoors in his first individual NCAA bid … reached his first NCAA Outdoor meet in the 1,500-meters, getting the 12th and final qualifying spot at West Prelims with a time of 3:44.08 in the quarters ... at the NCAA Outdoor meet in Eugene, finished 22nd overall in the 1,500m semifinal round, earning honorable mention All-America honors … focused on the 800-meters at Pac-12s, and finished 12th overall in 1:51.34 ... broke a two-year-old PR at 1,500-meters with a fourth-place finish at the Pepsi Team Invite where he crossed in 3:43.19, moving to seventh in school history ... took second in the 1,500m at the UW-WSU Dual in 3:51.55 ... first outdoor race at the Stanford Invitational, where he ran a new 800m PR of 1:50.00, winning his heat ... part of the distance medley relay that earned the best finish in school history, taking runner-up honors at NCAAs in 9:28.00, the fastest runner-up time in meet history ... earned All-America First Team honors for the DMR effort, running the 800-meter leg for the first time at nationals ... led off the DMR that shattered the school record at the Alex Wilson Invitational, running a time of 9:27.19 that ranked as the eighth-fastest in NCAA history and second-fastest during the regular season ... had a season-best mile of 4:00.68 at the Husky Classic, placing 12th overall with the new PR, and moving to No. 8 on the Husky top-10 list ... at the MPSF Championships, rabbited the mile and helped teammate Izaic Yorks run one of the fastest miles in NCAA history at 3:53.89 ... also had a mile run of 4:02.69 at the UW Invitational, finishing third ... picked up USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors and Pac-12 All-Academic Team honorable mention ... did not compete during cross country season.
2014-15 (Track): Ran a full indoor season highlighted by his lead-off leg on the distance medley relay at the MPSF Championships, where the Huskies finished third in 9:34.81, the third-fastest time in school history … ran a season-best mile time of 4:05.72 at the Husky Classic … also was 19th in the mile at the MPSF meet in 4:10.67 … raced just once outdoors, running a 1,500-meters time of 3:46.91 at the Stanford Invitational ... (Cross Country): Competed twice on the season, at the Washington Invitational and at the Wisconsin Invitational in the B-race … was ninth on the team at the Washington Invite, finishing 74th overall … was 63rd overall in the Wisconsin B-race … earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2013-14 (Track): A breakout redshirt freshman season on the track, as he put his name on the UW top-10 lists in both the mile indoors and the 1,500-meters outdoors and earned All-America honors on the distance medley relay indoors … outdoors, ran a 1,500-meters PR of 3:43.39 at the Bryan Clay Invite moving to ninth in school history … advanced to his first NCAA West Prelims at 1,500-meters, finishing 35th overall in 3:48.98 in the first round … was part of UW’s 4x1600-meter relay which won the title at the Drake Relays in 16:21.46, and also was part of the DMR that took second at Drake in 9:40.20 … second in the UW-WSU Dual in the 1,500m in 4:02.60 … placed 15th overall in the 1,500m prelims at Pac-12s … indoors, earned First Team All-America honors as the lead-off leg of Washington’s DMR which finished eighth at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque … set a PR in the mile of 4:01.72, eighth in school history, at the UW Invitational, finishing fifth … took 10th in the MPSF Championships in the mile in 4:06.28 … named a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention ... (Cross Country): Ran in the top-seven four times including competing at his first Pac-12 Championships … at the Pac-12 meet, was the sixth Husky finisher, taking 48th overall … also was sixth on the team at the Wisconsin Invitational, crossing the line in 166th-place … took 33rd at the Bill Dellinger Invite at Oregon, the No. 7 runner on the squad … opened the season with a 23rd-place finish at the Sundodger Invite, running 24:33 and finishing seventh on the squad … earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2012-13 (Track): Redshirted the season to preserve a year of eligibility … competed unattached three times during the outdoor season, all at 1,500-meters … had a very impressive 1,500m runner-up finish at the Ken Shannon Invite, clocking 3:49.60 ... (Cross Country): Redshirted the season, competing once unattached at the home Sundodger Invite, where he placed 49th in 26:16.
High School and Personal: Born in Edmonds, Washington ... parents are Kris and Craig Nelson ... has one older siste, Rylie ... a four-year standout at Jackson, reaching the Washington 4A track championships all four years with three top-five finishes in his career ... as a senior in 2012, placed fourth in the 800-meter state finals, running a lifetime-best 1:53.04 ... made state in the 800-meters all four years ... also qualified for state in the 1,600-meters as a senior and a junior, finishing fourth his junior year with a PR of 4:15.72 ... in addition to placing fourth in the 1,600m, he was the 4A state runner-up at 800-meters in 2011, and also took seventh in the 3,200-meter finals ... a three-time WesCo champion on the track ... ran at the state cross country championships three times, with a best finish of 12th as a junior in 2010, earning All-State honors.
Major Meets
2013 Pac-12 XC - 48th (6th UW)
2014 MPSF TF - 10th, Mile
2014 NCAA Indoors - 8th, DMR (All-America First Team)
2014 Pac-12 TF - 15th, 1500m
2014 NCAA Prelims TF - 35th, 1500m
2015 MPSF TF - 19th, Mile | 3rd, DMR
2016 NCAA Indoors - 2nd, DMR (All-America First Team)
2016 Pac-12 TF - 12th, 800m
2016 NCAA Prelims TF - 12th, 1500m
2016 NCAA Outdoors - 22nd, 1500m (All-American honorable mention)
2017 MPSF TF - 8th, Mile
2017 Pac-12 TF - 7th, 1500m
2017 NCAA Prelims TF - 36th, 1500m
Outdoor Bests
800m.......1:50.00
1500m.......3:43.19
Indoor Bests
800m.......1:51.17
Mile.......4:00.68
Academic Honors
2017 Pac-12 All-Academic TF honorable mention
2016 Pac-12 All-Academic XC honorable mention
2016 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2016 Pac-12 All-Academic TF honorable mention
2014 Pac-12 All-Academic TF honorable mention
2014 Pac-12 All-Academic XC honorable mention
2013 Pac-12 All-Academic XC honorable mention
2014 All-America First Team (DMR)
2014 Drake Relays Champion (4x1600m)
2016-17 (Track): Capped off his stellar career by scoring at the Pac-12 Championships for the first time in the 1,500-meters and reaching NCAA West Preliminaries for the third time … made the Pac-12 1,500m final for the first time by running 3:48.40 in the prelims, then ran 3:56.48 in a tactical final to place seventh … finished 36th overall in the NCAA West Prelims 1,500m first round in Austin … ran a season-best 1,500-meters time of 3:43.89 at the Bryan Clay Invitational … fifth in the 800-meters at the OSU High Performance Meet in a time of 1:50.66 … indoors, took eighth in the MPSF Championships mile in a season-best time of 4:04.34 … also ran 4:04.38 for the mile at the UW Indoor Preview … set an indoor PR of 1:51.17 in the 800m at the UW Invitational … earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention ... (Cross Country): A limited fall season … started strong with a 14th-place finish at the Sundodger Invite in 24:44, the third Husky finisher … finished 24th at the Washington Invitational in 24:22, sixth on the squad … started the Pac-12 Championships in Tucson but did not finish … earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2015-16 (Track): A great season saw him compete at nationals indoors on the DMR and outdoors in his first individual NCAA bid … reached his first NCAA Outdoor meet in the 1,500-meters, getting the 12th and final qualifying spot at West Prelims with a time of 3:44.08 in the quarters ... at the NCAA Outdoor meet in Eugene, finished 22nd overall in the 1,500m semifinal round, earning honorable mention All-America honors … focused on the 800-meters at Pac-12s, and finished 12th overall in 1:51.34 ... broke a two-year-old PR at 1,500-meters with a fourth-place finish at the Pepsi Team Invite where he crossed in 3:43.19, moving to seventh in school history ... took second in the 1,500m at the UW-WSU Dual in 3:51.55 ... first outdoor race at the Stanford Invitational, where he ran a new 800m PR of 1:50.00, winning his heat ... part of the distance medley relay that earned the best finish in school history, taking runner-up honors at NCAAs in 9:28.00, the fastest runner-up time in meet history ... earned All-America First Team honors for the DMR effort, running the 800-meter leg for the first time at nationals ... led off the DMR that shattered the school record at the Alex Wilson Invitational, running a time of 9:27.19 that ranked as the eighth-fastest in NCAA history and second-fastest during the regular season ... had a season-best mile of 4:00.68 at the Husky Classic, placing 12th overall with the new PR, and moving to No. 8 on the Husky top-10 list ... at the MPSF Championships, rabbited the mile and helped teammate Izaic Yorks run one of the fastest miles in NCAA history at 3:53.89 ... also had a mile run of 4:02.69 at the UW Invitational, finishing third ... picked up USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors and Pac-12 All-Academic Team honorable mention ... did not compete during cross country season.
2014-15 (Track): Ran a full indoor season highlighted by his lead-off leg on the distance medley relay at the MPSF Championships, where the Huskies finished third in 9:34.81, the third-fastest time in school history … ran a season-best mile time of 4:05.72 at the Husky Classic … also was 19th in the mile at the MPSF meet in 4:10.67 … raced just once outdoors, running a 1,500-meters time of 3:46.91 at the Stanford Invitational ... (Cross Country): Competed twice on the season, at the Washington Invitational and at the Wisconsin Invitational in the B-race … was ninth on the team at the Washington Invite, finishing 74th overall … was 63rd overall in the Wisconsin B-race … earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2013-14 (Track): A breakout redshirt freshman season on the track, as he put his name on the UW top-10 lists in both the mile indoors and the 1,500-meters outdoors and earned All-America honors on the distance medley relay indoors … outdoors, ran a 1,500-meters PR of 3:43.39 at the Bryan Clay Invite moving to ninth in school history … advanced to his first NCAA West Prelims at 1,500-meters, finishing 35th overall in 3:48.98 in the first round … was part of UW’s 4x1600-meter relay which won the title at the Drake Relays in 16:21.46, and also was part of the DMR that took second at Drake in 9:40.20 … second in the UW-WSU Dual in the 1,500m in 4:02.60 … placed 15th overall in the 1,500m prelims at Pac-12s … indoors, earned First Team All-America honors as the lead-off leg of Washington’s DMR which finished eighth at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque … set a PR in the mile of 4:01.72, eighth in school history, at the UW Invitational, finishing fifth … took 10th in the MPSF Championships in the mile in 4:06.28 … named a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention ... (Cross Country): Ran in the top-seven four times including competing at his first Pac-12 Championships … at the Pac-12 meet, was the sixth Husky finisher, taking 48th overall … also was sixth on the team at the Wisconsin Invitational, crossing the line in 166th-place … took 33rd at the Bill Dellinger Invite at Oregon, the No. 7 runner on the squad … opened the season with a 23rd-place finish at the Sundodger Invite, running 24:33 and finishing seventh on the squad … earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2012-13 (Track): Redshirted the season to preserve a year of eligibility … competed unattached three times during the outdoor season, all at 1,500-meters … had a very impressive 1,500m runner-up finish at the Ken Shannon Invite, clocking 3:49.60 ... (Cross Country): Redshirted the season, competing once unattached at the home Sundodger Invite, where he placed 49th in 26:16.
High School and Personal: Born in Edmonds, Washington ... parents are Kris and Craig Nelson ... has one older siste, Rylie ... a four-year standout at Jackson, reaching the Washington 4A track championships all four years with three top-five finishes in his career ... as a senior in 2012, placed fourth in the 800-meter state finals, running a lifetime-best 1:53.04 ... made state in the 800-meters all four years ... also qualified for state in the 1,600-meters as a senior and a junior, finishing fourth his junior year with a PR of 4:15.72 ... in addition to placing fourth in the 1,600m, he was the 4A state runner-up at 800-meters in 2011, and also took seventh in the 3,200-meter finals ... a three-time WesCo champion on the track ... ran at the state cross country championships three times, with a best finish of 12th as a junior in 2010, earning All-State honors.
Major Meets
2013 Pac-12 XC - 48th (6th UW)
2014 MPSF TF - 10th, Mile
2014 NCAA Indoors - 8th, DMR (All-America First Team)
2014 Pac-12 TF - 15th, 1500m
2014 NCAA Prelims TF - 35th, 1500m
2015 MPSF TF - 19th, Mile | 3rd, DMR
2016 NCAA Indoors - 2nd, DMR (All-America First Team)
2016 Pac-12 TF - 12th, 800m
2016 NCAA Prelims TF - 12th, 1500m
2016 NCAA Outdoors - 22nd, 1500m (All-American honorable mention)
2017 MPSF TF - 8th, Mile
2017 Pac-12 TF - 7th, 1500m
2017 NCAA Prelims TF - 36th, 1500m
Outdoor Bests
800m.......1:50.00
1500m.......3:43.19
Indoor Bests
800m.......1:51.17
Mile.......4:00.68
Academic Honors
2017 Pac-12 All-Academic TF honorable mention
2016 Pac-12 All-Academic XC honorable mention
2016 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2016 Pac-12 All-Academic TF honorable mention
2014 Pac-12 All-Academic TF honorable mention
2014 Pac-12 All-Academic XC honorable mention
2013 Pac-12 All-Academic XC honorable mention
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