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Carley Thomas
- Position:
- Mid-Distances
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Sydney, Australia
- High School:
- Castle Hill
Bio
2024 All-America Second Team (800m, Indoors)
2023 Pac-12 800m Runner-Up
2x NCAA Record-Holder in Distance Medley Relay
2023 All-America Second Team (800m, Outdoors | 800m, Indoors | Distance Medley Relay, Indoors)
2022 Pac-12 800m Champion
2022 All-America Second Team (800m, Outdoors and Distance Medley Relay, Indoors)
2020 All-America (800m and DMR, Indoors)
Thomas Features
ยปย Sonic Youth (Tempo Journal; Mar. 15, 2020)
2024 (Track): Competed just indoors in her final season, breaking her own School Record once again at 800-meters and anchoring the Huskies to the DMR NCAA Record โฆ set the new 800m School Record along with the Dempsey Facility Record at the UW Invitational, running 2:00.95 โฆ fourth at the New Balance Grand Prix 800m in 2:01.96 โฆ at the Terrier DMR Challenge, anchored the Huskies to an NCAA Record win in 10:43.39, lowering UWโs own collegiate record set one year earlier โฆ opened the season with a big mile PR of 4:30.38, the No. 3 mark in school history โฆ placed 13th at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston in her final race as a Husky to earn Second Team All-America.
2022-23 (Track): Reached the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800-meters for the second straight year, finishing 11th overall at nationals in Austin in 2:02.02, which lowered her own School Record and earned All-America Second Team ... after the NCAA season, next race was in July in Lignano, Italy, where she broke two-minutes for the first time ever, winning the meet in 1:59.95 to break the School Record again by over two seconds ... another summer time of 2:01.60 at a BMC Regional race in London ... at NCAA West Prelims in Sacramento, won the first round and then took second in the quarterfinal โฆ took runner-up at the Pac-12 Championships, re-breaking her outdoor School Record in the final in 2:02.40 โฆ ran on a pair of top-three-finishing relays at the Penn Relays, as UW took third in the 4x1500-meters (4:20 split) and second in the 4x800-meters (2:05.72 split) โฆ opened the outdoor season with a 1,500m PR of 4:17.50 at the Stanford Invitational โฆ indoors, earned All-America Second Team honors in both the 800-meters and on the DMR โฆ was ninth in the 800-meter semis at NCAA Indoors, just missing the final by one spot, running 2:03.37 โฆ was the 800-meter leg of the Collegiate Record-setting distance medley relay at the BU Scarlet & White Invite, as the Huskies ran 10:46.62 to break Oregonโs 2017 record and shatter the School Record by nine seconds, splitting a 2:01.9 โฆ the day after the DMR record, lowered the 800-meters School Record to 2:02.15 โฆ also set a School Record in the 600-meters in 1:28.78 โฆ opened up the indoor season with a mile PR at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Opener, running 4:36.24 ... a USTFCCCA All-Academic Team recipient and Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll ...ย (Cross Country): Competed twice in the fall for the Dawgs, starting with the Wisconsin Invitational where she was 170th overall and sixth on the team in 21:20 โฆ ran at the Pac-12 Championships, placing 65th and 10th on the squad in 20:59.
2021-22 (Track): Became the first Pac-12 800-meter Champion in Washington history on the womenโs side, as she showed how far sheโd come since the broken leg by setting the outdoor school record to win the Pac-12 final going away in 2:02.93 โฆ advanced to the NCAA Outdoor semifinals, placing 11th in the semis in a time of 2:03.44 to earn All-America Second Team honors โฆ advanced out of the NCAA West Prelims quarterfinal with a time of 2:03.18 โฆ won the Fresno State invitational 800m in 2:04.49 โฆ returned to Australia in March for the Australian Outdoor Championships, placing sixth in the 800m final in 2:06.94 โฆ indoors, ran the 800m leg on the Husky DMR that earned All-America Second Team honors โฆ the DMR finished 11th at NCAA Indoors after suffering a fall on the opening leg โฆ helped the DMR qualify for nationals by running the 400m leg when the squad ran 10:57.69 at the JDL DMR Invite, third-fastest in school history โฆ indoors, ran a season-best 800m time of 2:05.40 at the UW Invitational for the win โฆ stepped up to the mile to start the year and ran 4:46.18 at the UW Indoor Preview โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team โฆ a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll member ...ย (Cross Country): Raced her first cross country meet at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invite, placing 68th overall in the B race.
2021:ย Made an incredible recovery from a 2020 summer accident that saw her fracture her leg and necessitated surgery and months without running or walking unassisted, yet she was back competing by April of 2021 โฆ first race back was the West Coast Relays on April 30 where she ran the 800-meters in 2:07.46 โฆ made the Pac-12 Championships final with just the one meet under her belt, running a season-best of 2:05.57 in the 800m prelims and then taking seventh in the final in 2:07.65 โฆ raced at NCAA West Prelims and finished 26th overall in 2:07.21 โฆ made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2020 (Indoor Track; Outdoor Season Canceled): One of the top freshmen in the NCAA during the indoor campaign, earning two All-America honors in the 800-meters and on the distance medley relay and smashing the School Record in the 800m โฆ named the National Womenโs Freshman of the Year by Stride Report after ranking No. 2 in the NCAA in the 800m โฆ broke the UW indoor 800-meter record by over two seconds in her collegiate track debut, running 2:03.06 at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge at the Armory in New York, finishing third behind two U.S. professionals โฆ lowered her School Record at the BU Last Chance Qualifier with a run of 2:02.75 โฆ ran the 800-meter leg on the DMR that ran the No. 2 time in school history at the UW Invitational with a time of 10:56.23 โฆ qualified for NCAA Indoors in the 800m and DMR but did not get to compete as the meet was canceled due to COVID-19 โฆ earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors.
2019 Fall: Chosen to represent Australia at the IAAF World Outdoor Championships held in Doha, Qatar ... ran a time of 2:04.65 in the 800-meter first round.
High School and Personal: Born in Sydney, Australia โฆ parents are Christina and Bruce Thomas โฆ has one older sister, Megg, and one younger brother, Ben โฆ both parents are former Australian Ironman Triathlon Champions โฆ one of the worldโs top junior 800-meter runners as evidenced by her silver medal at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Finland โฆ at the 2018 World Junior Championships, she took second in the 800m final in a then-PR of 2:01.13, and also added another silver medal on the 4x400m relay team which she anchored with a 51.4-second split โฆ competed at the 2019 London Diamond League meet, and dropped her 800-meters PR to 2:01.01 in an eighth-place finish โฆ got her first victory in the 2019 European circuit, winning the 800m in 2:02.85 in Nijmegan, Netherlands โฆ ranked fifth in the world in 2019 in the U20 age group and first outside of Africa โฆ placed fourth in the 2019 Australian Track Championships at the senior level in the 800-meters, going 2:02.74 in the final โฆ the 2019 New South Wales state champion at 800-meters โฆ the 2018 Australian U20 Champion at 800-meters โฆ was the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games gold medalist in the 800-meters and the mixed 4x400m โฆ also played three years of water polo, two years of basketball, and was a state qualifier in swimming โฆ the 2018 Vice Captain of her high school.
Major Meets
2018 Australia U20 Champs - 1st, 800m
2018 World Junior Champs - 2nd, 800mย | 2nd, 4x400m
2019 Australia Champs - 4th, 800m
2019 World Outdoor Champs - 37th, 800m
2020 NCAA Indoors - 800m Qualifier (All-America) | DMR Qualifier (All-America)
2021 Pac-12 TF - 7th, 800m
2021 NCAA Prelims TF - 26th, 800m
2022 NCAA Indoors - 11th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
2022 Australian Outdoor Champs - 6th, 800m
2022 Pac-12 TF - 1st, 800m (Pac-12 Champion) | 11th, 4x400m
2022 NCAA Prelims TF - 10th, 800m
2022 NCAA Outdoors - 11th, 800m (All-America Second Team)
2022 Pac-12 XC - 65th (10th UW)
2023 NCAA Indoors - 9th, 800m (All-America Second Team) | 12th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
2023 Pac-12 TF - 2nd, 800m | 10th, 4x400m
2023 NCAA Prelims TF - 6th, 800m
2023 NCAA Outdoors - 11th, 800m (All-America Second Team)
2024 NCAA Indoors - 13th, 800m (All-America Second Team)
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Outdoor Bests
800mโฆโฆ.1:59.95ย -ย (School Record)
1500m.......4:17.50
Indoor Bests
600m.......1:28.78 -ย (School Record)
800m.......2:00.95 -ย (School Record)
Mile.......4:30.38
Academic Honors
2023ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2023 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2022ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2022 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2023 Pac-12 800m Runner-Up
2x NCAA Record-Holder in Distance Medley Relay
2023 All-America Second Team (800m, Outdoors | 800m, Indoors | Distance Medley Relay, Indoors)
2022 Pac-12 800m Champion
2022 All-America Second Team (800m, Outdoors and Distance Medley Relay, Indoors)
2020 All-America (800m and DMR, Indoors)
Thomas Features
ยปย Sonic Youth (Tempo Journal; Mar. 15, 2020)
2024 (Track): Competed just indoors in her final season, breaking her own School Record once again at 800-meters and anchoring the Huskies to the DMR NCAA Record โฆ set the new 800m School Record along with the Dempsey Facility Record at the UW Invitational, running 2:00.95 โฆ fourth at the New Balance Grand Prix 800m in 2:01.96 โฆ at the Terrier DMR Challenge, anchored the Huskies to an NCAA Record win in 10:43.39, lowering UWโs own collegiate record set one year earlier โฆ opened the season with a big mile PR of 4:30.38, the No. 3 mark in school history โฆ placed 13th at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston in her final race as a Husky to earn Second Team All-America.
2022-23 (Track): Reached the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800-meters for the second straight year, finishing 11th overall at nationals in Austin in 2:02.02, which lowered her own School Record and earned All-America Second Team ... after the NCAA season, next race was in July in Lignano, Italy, where she broke two-minutes for the first time ever, winning the meet in 1:59.95 to break the School Record again by over two seconds ... another summer time of 2:01.60 at a BMC Regional race in London ... at NCAA West Prelims in Sacramento, won the first round and then took second in the quarterfinal โฆ took runner-up at the Pac-12 Championships, re-breaking her outdoor School Record in the final in 2:02.40 โฆ ran on a pair of top-three-finishing relays at the Penn Relays, as UW took third in the 4x1500-meters (4:20 split) and second in the 4x800-meters (2:05.72 split) โฆ opened the outdoor season with a 1,500m PR of 4:17.50 at the Stanford Invitational โฆ indoors, earned All-America Second Team honors in both the 800-meters and on the DMR โฆ was ninth in the 800-meter semis at NCAA Indoors, just missing the final by one spot, running 2:03.37 โฆ was the 800-meter leg of the Collegiate Record-setting distance medley relay at the BU Scarlet & White Invite, as the Huskies ran 10:46.62 to break Oregonโs 2017 record and shatter the School Record by nine seconds, splitting a 2:01.9 โฆ the day after the DMR record, lowered the 800-meters School Record to 2:02.15 โฆ also set a School Record in the 600-meters in 1:28.78 โฆ opened up the indoor season with a mile PR at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Opener, running 4:36.24 ... a USTFCCCA All-Academic Team recipient and Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll ...ย (Cross Country): Competed twice in the fall for the Dawgs, starting with the Wisconsin Invitational where she was 170th overall and sixth on the team in 21:20 โฆ ran at the Pac-12 Championships, placing 65th and 10th on the squad in 20:59.
2021-22 (Track): Became the first Pac-12 800-meter Champion in Washington history on the womenโs side, as she showed how far sheโd come since the broken leg by setting the outdoor school record to win the Pac-12 final going away in 2:02.93 โฆ advanced to the NCAA Outdoor semifinals, placing 11th in the semis in a time of 2:03.44 to earn All-America Second Team honors โฆ advanced out of the NCAA West Prelims quarterfinal with a time of 2:03.18 โฆ won the Fresno State invitational 800m in 2:04.49 โฆ returned to Australia in March for the Australian Outdoor Championships, placing sixth in the 800m final in 2:06.94 โฆ indoors, ran the 800m leg on the Husky DMR that earned All-America Second Team honors โฆ the DMR finished 11th at NCAA Indoors after suffering a fall on the opening leg โฆ helped the DMR qualify for nationals by running the 400m leg when the squad ran 10:57.69 at the JDL DMR Invite, third-fastest in school history โฆ indoors, ran a season-best 800m time of 2:05.40 at the UW Invitational for the win โฆ stepped up to the mile to start the year and ran 4:46.18 at the UW Indoor Preview โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team โฆ a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll member ...ย (Cross Country): Raced her first cross country meet at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invite, placing 68th overall in the B race.
2021:ย Made an incredible recovery from a 2020 summer accident that saw her fracture her leg and necessitated surgery and months without running or walking unassisted, yet she was back competing by April of 2021 โฆ first race back was the West Coast Relays on April 30 where she ran the 800-meters in 2:07.46 โฆ made the Pac-12 Championships final with just the one meet under her belt, running a season-best of 2:05.57 in the 800m prelims and then taking seventh in the final in 2:07.65 โฆ raced at NCAA West Prelims and finished 26th overall in 2:07.21 โฆ made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2020 (Indoor Track; Outdoor Season Canceled): One of the top freshmen in the NCAA during the indoor campaign, earning two All-America honors in the 800-meters and on the distance medley relay and smashing the School Record in the 800m โฆ named the National Womenโs Freshman of the Year by Stride Report after ranking No. 2 in the NCAA in the 800m โฆ broke the UW indoor 800-meter record by over two seconds in her collegiate track debut, running 2:03.06 at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge at the Armory in New York, finishing third behind two U.S. professionals โฆ lowered her School Record at the BU Last Chance Qualifier with a run of 2:02.75 โฆ ran the 800-meter leg on the DMR that ran the No. 2 time in school history at the UW Invitational with a time of 10:56.23 โฆ qualified for NCAA Indoors in the 800m and DMR but did not get to compete as the meet was canceled due to COVID-19 โฆ earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors.
2019 Fall: Chosen to represent Australia at the IAAF World Outdoor Championships held in Doha, Qatar ... ran a time of 2:04.65 in the 800-meter first round.
High School and Personal: Born in Sydney, Australia โฆ parents are Christina and Bruce Thomas โฆ has one older sister, Megg, and one younger brother, Ben โฆ both parents are former Australian Ironman Triathlon Champions โฆ one of the worldโs top junior 800-meter runners as evidenced by her silver medal at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Finland โฆ at the 2018 World Junior Championships, she took second in the 800m final in a then-PR of 2:01.13, and also added another silver medal on the 4x400m relay team which she anchored with a 51.4-second split โฆ competed at the 2019 London Diamond League meet, and dropped her 800-meters PR to 2:01.01 in an eighth-place finish โฆ got her first victory in the 2019 European circuit, winning the 800m in 2:02.85 in Nijmegan, Netherlands โฆ ranked fifth in the world in 2019 in the U20 age group and first outside of Africa โฆ placed fourth in the 2019 Australian Track Championships at the senior level in the 800-meters, going 2:02.74 in the final โฆ the 2019 New South Wales state champion at 800-meters โฆ the 2018 Australian U20 Champion at 800-meters โฆ was the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games gold medalist in the 800-meters and the mixed 4x400m โฆ also played three years of water polo, two years of basketball, and was a state qualifier in swimming โฆ the 2018 Vice Captain of her high school.
Major Meets
2018 Australia U20 Champs - 1st, 800m
2018 World Junior Champs - 2nd, 800mย | 2nd, 4x400m
2019 Australia Champs - 4th, 800m
2019 World Outdoor Champs - 37th, 800m
2020 NCAA Indoors - 800m Qualifier (All-America) | DMR Qualifier (All-America)
2021 Pac-12 TF - 7th, 800m
2021 NCAA Prelims TF - 26th, 800m
2022 NCAA Indoors - 11th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
2022 Australian Outdoor Champs - 6th, 800m
2022 Pac-12 TF - 1st, 800m (Pac-12 Champion) | 11th, 4x400m
2022 NCAA Prelims TF - 10th, 800m
2022 NCAA Outdoors - 11th, 800m (All-America Second Team)
2022 Pac-12 XC - 65th (10th UW)
2023 NCAA Indoors - 9th, 800m (All-America Second Team) | 12th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
2023 Pac-12 TF - 2nd, 800m | 10th, 4x400m
2023 NCAA Prelims TF - 6th, 800m
2023 NCAA Outdoors - 11th, 800m (All-America Second Team)
2024 NCAA Indoors - 13th, 800m (All-America Second Team)
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Outdoor Bests
800mโฆโฆ.1:59.95ย -ย (School Record)
1500m.......4:17.50
Indoor Bests
600m.......1:28.78 -ย (School Record)
800m.......2:00.95 -ย (School Record)
Mile.......4:30.38
Academic Honors
2023ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2023 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2022ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2022 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
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
