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Leo Daschbach
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Gilbert, Ariz.
- High School:
- Highland
Bio
2025 All-America Second Team (DMR)
2025 Big Ten Indoor DMR Champion
2024 All-Big Ten XC Second Team
2024 All-West Region XC
2024 All-America Second Team (DMR)
2021 All-Pac-12 XC Second Team
2021 All-West Region XC
2020-21 All-Pac-12 XC Second Team
2024 Cross Country: Scored in the top-five at all four races he ran in the fall, helping UW advance to nationals … at the NCAA Championships in Wisconsin, was 117th overall in 29:59 and was the No. 4 Husky scorer as the team finished 16th-place … earned All-West Region honors as UW won the West Regional title for the first time since 2015, scoring as the No. 4 Husky in 15th-place overall in 29:23 … earned All-Big Ten Second Team honors with a 19th-place finish, fifth on the squad, as UW took second at the Big Ten meet … was the No. 2 scorer at the season-opening Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in 28th-place in 23:59 … named to the Fall Academic All-Big Ten Team.
2024 Track: Set multiple PRs and earned first career All-America honor on the DMR indoors … outdoors, clinched the team title for the Huskies at the Pac-12 Championships, getting a crucial fifth-place finish in the 5,000-meters to put UW over the top … also scored in the Pac-12 10k, taking seventh … went to No. 7 in school history in the 5,000-meters with a big PR at the Stanford Invitational, clocking 13:40.06 … ran the 5k at NCAA Prelims, finishing 37th overall … indoors, set a new mile PR at the UW Invitational with a time of 3:58.18 … also dropped his 3,000-meters PR to 7:55.40 … another sub-four mile at the Ken Shannon Last Chance meet, going 3:59.04 … anchored the DMR at the NCAA Indoor Championships, helping the team finish ninth overall in 9:30.40 for Second Team All-America honors … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team as well as the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2023 Cross Country: Raced in the top-seven at all four meets for the Dawgs, and in the top-four at three … helped UW to a second-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships with a 16th-place finish, fourth on the squad, in 23:20 … finished 92nd at West Regionals, sixth on the team … was the No. 2 Husky finisher at the Wisconsin Invitational, placing 93rd overall in 24:21 … opened the season with a 68th-place finish at the Virginia Invite, third on the squad, in 24:10 … work in the classroom earned a spot on the Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll.
2023 Track: Scored at the Pac-12 Championships in both the 5k and the 10k, part of UW’s first ever Pac-12 Team Championship … at Pac-12s, first took seventh in the 10,000-meters in 29:58.04, then came back to place eighth in the 5,000-meters in 14:29.03, the event that clinched the title … qualified for NCAA West Prelims in the 10,000-meters, and was 27th overall in 29:11.06 … ran season-best 10k at the Stanford Invitational, going 28:54.51 for a new PR and the No. 10 mark in school history … clocked a 5k PR of 14:13.72 at the Portland Track Festival on June 4 … indoors, raced one time, running the 5k at the Ken Shannon Invite, going 14:19.29 on Feb. 24 … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team and the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2022 Cross Country: Raced at the final four meets of the season, including all three championship races … was the No. 5 scorer for the Dawgs at NCAA West Prelims, placing 35th overall in 29:16 … the seventh Husky finisher at the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, placing 211th … finished 44th at the Pac-12 Championships, seventh on the squad, in 24:28 … season debut at the Wisconsin Invitational, placing 150th overall and sixth among Huskies in 24:23.
2022 Track: Redshirted the track season ... named to the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2021 Cross Country: A second impressive cross country season in less than a year’s time, as he earned All-Pac-12 and All-West Region honors … at the NCAA Championships, was the No. 5 scorer in 134th-place overall to help the team finish 13th … placed ninth at West Regionals in 29:45, third on the team, for All-Region honors … was the No. 3 scorer at the Pac-12 Championships, placing 14th overall for All-Pac-12 Second Team distinction … the second Husky finisher at the Wisconsin Invite, placing 61st overall in 24:09 … part of a 1-6 UW sweep at the Charles Bowles Invite, taking second in 23:44.
2021Track: Competed three times outdoors in the 1,500-meters, opening with a time of 3:47.26 at the Raleigh Relays … fourth at the UW-WSU Dual in 3:48.79 … ran 3:48.17 at the West Coast Relays ... named to the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2020 Cross Country: Made an outstanding collegiate debut on the cross country course, taking 12th at the Pac-12 Championships to earn All-Pac-12 Second Team honors and help the Huskies place third overall … was the No. 5 scorer for the Huskies at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Stillwater, placing 199th overall, as the team placed 25th ... named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
High School and Personal: Born in Scottsdale, Arizona … parents are Erica and William Daschbach … has one older brother, William … made headlines by becoming the 11th U.S. high schooler ever to break the four-minute mile barrier when he ran 3:59.54 at a meet in El Dorado Hill, Calif. in May of 2020 … that time ranks ninth in U.S. history and he became just the fourth to run sub-four in a race of exclusively high school athletes … the sub-four run was a rare chance during a senior season that was essentially lost to the Covid-19 pandemic … a four-time Gatorade Arizona Athlete of the Year winner, twice in cross country (2018-19; 2019-20) and twice in track (2018-19; 2019-20) … as a junior in 2019, he swept four Arizona state titles on the track, winning the 800m, 1600m, 3200m, and the 4x800m relay … won his first state track title as a sophomore, winning the 1,600-meters … in the fall of 2019, ran the No. 2 all-time 5k cross country performance ever, winning the Desert Twilight Festival in 14:14.26 … captured state cross country titles as a sophomore and senior and was runner-up as a junior … capped junior track season in 2019 with a mile run of 4:03.98 at the Brooks PR Invite in Seattle … named the 2020 AZCentral Boys Athlete of the Year for the state.
Major Meets
2020-21 Pac-12 XC - 12th (3rd UW)
2020-21 NCAA XC - 199th (5th UW)
2021 Pac-12 XC - 14th (3rd UW)
2021 Regional XC - 9th (3rd UW)
2021 NCAA XC - 134th (5th UW)
2022 Pac-12 XC - 44th (7th UW)
2022 Regional XC - 35th (5th UW)
2022 NCAA XC - 211th (7th UW)
2023 Pac-12 TF - 8th, 5000m | 7th, 10000m
2023 NCAA Prelims TF - 27th, 10000m
2023 Pac-12 XC - 16th (4th UW)
2023 Regional XC - 92nd (6th UW)
2024 NCAA Indoors - 9th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
2024 Pac-12 TF - 5th, 5000m | 7th, 10000m
2024 NCAA Prelims TF - 37th, 5000m
2024 Big Ten XC - 19th (5th UW)
2024 Regional XC - 15th (4th UW)
2024 NCAA XC - 117th (4th UW)
2025 Big Ten Indoor TF - 10th, Mile | 1st, DMR (Big Ten Champion)
2025 NCAA Indoors - 11th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
Outdoor Bests
1500m.......3:42.82
5000m.......13:40.06
10000m.......28:54.51
Indoor Bests
Mile.......3:55.64
3000m.......7:53.98
5000m.......14:19.29
Academic Honors
2024 Fall Academic All-Big Ten Team
2024 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2024 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2023 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2023 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2022 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2020-21 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team XC
2025 Big Ten Indoor DMR Champion
2024 All-Big Ten XC Second Team
2024 All-West Region XC
2024 All-America Second Team (DMR)
2021 All-Pac-12 XC Second Team
2021 All-West Region XC
2020-21 All-Pac-12 XC Second Team
2024 Cross Country: Scored in the top-five at all four races he ran in the fall, helping UW advance to nationals … at the NCAA Championships in Wisconsin, was 117th overall in 29:59 and was the No. 4 Husky scorer as the team finished 16th-place … earned All-West Region honors as UW won the West Regional title for the first time since 2015, scoring as the No. 4 Husky in 15th-place overall in 29:23 … earned All-Big Ten Second Team honors with a 19th-place finish, fifth on the squad, as UW took second at the Big Ten meet … was the No. 2 scorer at the season-opening Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in 28th-place in 23:59 … named to the Fall Academic All-Big Ten Team.
2024 Track: Set multiple PRs and earned first career All-America honor on the DMR indoors … outdoors, clinched the team title for the Huskies at the Pac-12 Championships, getting a crucial fifth-place finish in the 5,000-meters to put UW over the top … also scored in the Pac-12 10k, taking seventh … went to No. 7 in school history in the 5,000-meters with a big PR at the Stanford Invitational, clocking 13:40.06 … ran the 5k at NCAA Prelims, finishing 37th overall … indoors, set a new mile PR at the UW Invitational with a time of 3:58.18 … also dropped his 3,000-meters PR to 7:55.40 … another sub-four mile at the Ken Shannon Last Chance meet, going 3:59.04 … anchored the DMR at the NCAA Indoor Championships, helping the team finish ninth overall in 9:30.40 for Second Team All-America honors … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team as well as the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2023 Cross Country: Raced in the top-seven at all four meets for the Dawgs, and in the top-four at three … helped UW to a second-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships with a 16th-place finish, fourth on the squad, in 23:20 … finished 92nd at West Regionals, sixth on the team … was the No. 2 Husky finisher at the Wisconsin Invitational, placing 93rd overall in 24:21 … opened the season with a 68th-place finish at the Virginia Invite, third on the squad, in 24:10 … work in the classroom earned a spot on the Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll.
2023 Track: Scored at the Pac-12 Championships in both the 5k and the 10k, part of UW’s first ever Pac-12 Team Championship … at Pac-12s, first took seventh in the 10,000-meters in 29:58.04, then came back to place eighth in the 5,000-meters in 14:29.03, the event that clinched the title … qualified for NCAA West Prelims in the 10,000-meters, and was 27th overall in 29:11.06 … ran season-best 10k at the Stanford Invitational, going 28:54.51 for a new PR and the No. 10 mark in school history … clocked a 5k PR of 14:13.72 at the Portland Track Festival on June 4 … indoors, raced one time, running the 5k at the Ken Shannon Invite, going 14:19.29 on Feb. 24 … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team and the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2022 Cross Country: Raced at the final four meets of the season, including all three championship races … was the No. 5 scorer for the Dawgs at NCAA West Prelims, placing 35th overall in 29:16 … the seventh Husky finisher at the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, placing 211th … finished 44th at the Pac-12 Championships, seventh on the squad, in 24:28 … season debut at the Wisconsin Invitational, placing 150th overall and sixth among Huskies in 24:23.
2022 Track: Redshirted the track season ... named to the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2021 Cross Country: A second impressive cross country season in less than a year’s time, as he earned All-Pac-12 and All-West Region honors … at the NCAA Championships, was the No. 5 scorer in 134th-place overall to help the team finish 13th … placed ninth at West Regionals in 29:45, third on the team, for All-Region honors … was the No. 3 scorer at the Pac-12 Championships, placing 14th overall for All-Pac-12 Second Team distinction … the second Husky finisher at the Wisconsin Invite, placing 61st overall in 24:09 … part of a 1-6 UW sweep at the Charles Bowles Invite, taking second in 23:44.
2021Track: Competed three times outdoors in the 1,500-meters, opening with a time of 3:47.26 at the Raleigh Relays … fourth at the UW-WSU Dual in 3:48.79 … ran 3:48.17 at the West Coast Relays ... named to the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2020 Cross Country: Made an outstanding collegiate debut on the cross country course, taking 12th at the Pac-12 Championships to earn All-Pac-12 Second Team honors and help the Huskies place third overall … was the No. 5 scorer for the Huskies at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Stillwater, placing 199th overall, as the team placed 25th ... named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
High School and Personal: Born in Scottsdale, Arizona … parents are Erica and William Daschbach … has one older brother, William … made headlines by becoming the 11th U.S. high schooler ever to break the four-minute mile barrier when he ran 3:59.54 at a meet in El Dorado Hill, Calif. in May of 2020 … that time ranks ninth in U.S. history and he became just the fourth to run sub-four in a race of exclusively high school athletes … the sub-four run was a rare chance during a senior season that was essentially lost to the Covid-19 pandemic … a four-time Gatorade Arizona Athlete of the Year winner, twice in cross country (2018-19; 2019-20) and twice in track (2018-19; 2019-20) … as a junior in 2019, he swept four Arizona state titles on the track, winning the 800m, 1600m, 3200m, and the 4x800m relay … won his first state track title as a sophomore, winning the 1,600-meters … in the fall of 2019, ran the No. 2 all-time 5k cross country performance ever, winning the Desert Twilight Festival in 14:14.26 … captured state cross country titles as a sophomore and senior and was runner-up as a junior … capped junior track season in 2019 with a mile run of 4:03.98 at the Brooks PR Invite in Seattle … named the 2020 AZCentral Boys Athlete of the Year for the state.
Major Meets
2020-21 Pac-12 XC - 12th (3rd UW)
2020-21 NCAA XC - 199th (5th UW)
2021 Pac-12 XC - 14th (3rd UW)
2021 Regional XC - 9th (3rd UW)
2021 NCAA XC - 134th (5th UW)
2022 Pac-12 XC - 44th (7th UW)
2022 Regional XC - 35th (5th UW)
2022 NCAA XC - 211th (7th UW)
2023 Pac-12 TF - 8th, 5000m | 7th, 10000m
2023 NCAA Prelims TF - 27th, 10000m
2023 Pac-12 XC - 16th (4th UW)
2023 Regional XC - 92nd (6th UW)
2024 NCAA Indoors - 9th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
2024 Pac-12 TF - 5th, 5000m | 7th, 10000m
2024 NCAA Prelims TF - 37th, 5000m
2024 Big Ten XC - 19th (5th UW)
2024 Regional XC - 15th (4th UW)
2024 NCAA XC - 117th (4th UW)
2025 Big Ten Indoor TF - 10th, Mile | 1st, DMR (Big Ten Champion)
2025 NCAA Indoors - 11th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
Outdoor Bests
1500m.......3:42.82
5000m.......13:40.06
10000m.......28:54.51
Indoor Bests
Mile.......3:55.64
3000m.......7:53.98
5000m.......14:19.29
Academic Honors
2024 Fall Academic All-Big Ten Team
2024 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2024 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2023 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2023 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2022 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2020-21 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team XC
Raising the Bar | Hana & Amanda Moll
Monday, August 04
Women's 1500m final - 2025 NCAA outdoor track and field championship
Sunday, June 15
Nathan Green | 2025 NCAA 1500m Champion
Saturday, June 14
Track & Field NCAA Championships | Huskies Highlights
Friday, June 13
