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Thomas, Carley
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Carley Thomas
- Position:
- Mid-Distances
- Class:
- Sophomore
- 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
» 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 … set the new 800m School Record along with the Dempsey Facility Record at the UW Invitational, running 2:00.95 … fourth at the New Balance Grand Prix 800m in 2:01.96 … at the Terrier DMR Challenge, anchored the Huskies to an NCAA Record win in 10:43.39, lowering UW’s own collegiate record set one year earlier … opened the season with a big mile PR of 4:30.38, the No. 3 mark in school history … 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 … took runner-up at the Pac-12 Championships, re-breaking her outdoor School Record in the final in 2:02.40 … 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) … opened the outdoor season with a 1,500m PR of 4:17.50 at the Stanford Invitational … indoors, earned All-America Second Team honors in both the 800-meters and on the DMR … was ninth in the 800-meter semis at NCAA Indoors, just missing the final by one spot, running 2:03.37 … 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 Oregon’s 2017 record and shatter the School Record by nine seconds, splitting a 2:01.9 … the day after the DMR record, lowered the 800-meters School Record to 2:02.15 … also set a School Record in the 600-meters in 1:28.78 … 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 ... (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 … 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 women’s side, as she showed how far she’d come since the broken leg by setting the outdoor school record to win the Pac-12 final going away in 2:02.93 … 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 … advanced out of the NCAA West Prelims quarterfinal with a time of 2:03.18 … won the Fresno State invitational 800m in 2:04.49 … returned to Australia in March for the Australian Outdoor Championships, placing sixth in the 800m final in 2:06.94 … indoors, ran the 800m leg on the Husky DMR that earned All-America Second Team honors … the DMR finished 11th at NCAA Indoors after suffering a fall on the opening leg … 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 … indoors, ran a season-best 800m time of 2:05.40 at the UW Invitational for the win … stepped up to the mile to start the year and ran 4:46.18 at the UW Indoor Preview … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team … a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll member ... (Cross Country): Raced her first cross country meet at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invite, placing 68th overall in the B race.
2021: 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 … first race back was the West Coast Relays on April 30 where she ran the 800-meters in 2:07.46 … 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 … raced at NCAA West Prelims and finished 26th overall in 2:07.21 … made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll … 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 … named the National Women’s Freshman of the Year by Stride Report after ranking No. 2 in the NCAA in the 800m … 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 … lowered her School Record at the BU Last Chance Qualifier with a run of 2:02.75 … 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 … qualified for NCAA Indoors in the 800m and DMR but did not get to compete as the meet was canceled due to COVID-19 … 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 … parents are Christina and Bruce Thomas … has one older sister, Megg, and one younger brother, Ben … both parents are former Australian Ironman Triathlon Champions … one of the world’s top junior 800-meter runners as evidenced by her silver medal at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Finland … 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 … competed at the 2019 London Diamond League meet, and dropped her 800-meters PR to 2:01.01 in an eighth-place finish … got her first victory in the 2019 European circuit, winning the 800m in 2:02.85 in Nijmegan, Netherlands … ranked fifth in the world in 2019 in the U20 age group and first outside of Africa … placed fourth in the 2019 Australian Track Championships at the senior level in the 800-meters, going 2:02.74 in the final … the 2019 New South Wales state champion at 800-meters … the 2018 Australian U20 Champion at 800-meters … was the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games gold medalist in the 800-meters and the mixed 4x400m … also played three years of water polo, two years of basketball, and was a state qualifier in swimming … the 2018 Vice Captain of her high school.
Major Meets
2018 Australia U20 Champs - 1st, 800m
2018 World Junior Champs - 2nd, 800m | 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)
Outdoor Bests
800m…….1:59.95 - (School Record)
1500m.......4:17.50
Indoor Bests
600m.......1:28.78 - (School Record)
800m.......2:00.95 - (School Record)
Mile.......4:30.38
Academic Honors
2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2023 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2022 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
» 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 … set the new 800m School Record along with the Dempsey Facility Record at the UW Invitational, running 2:00.95 … fourth at the New Balance Grand Prix 800m in 2:01.96 … at the Terrier DMR Challenge, anchored the Huskies to an NCAA Record win in 10:43.39, lowering UW’s own collegiate record set one year earlier … opened the season with a big mile PR of 4:30.38, the No. 3 mark in school history … 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 … took runner-up at the Pac-12 Championships, re-breaking her outdoor School Record in the final in 2:02.40 … 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) … opened the outdoor season with a 1,500m PR of 4:17.50 at the Stanford Invitational … indoors, earned All-America Second Team honors in both the 800-meters and on the DMR … was ninth in the 800-meter semis at NCAA Indoors, just missing the final by one spot, running 2:03.37 … 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 Oregon’s 2017 record and shatter the School Record by nine seconds, splitting a 2:01.9 … the day after the DMR record, lowered the 800-meters School Record to 2:02.15 … also set a School Record in the 600-meters in 1:28.78 … 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 ... (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 … 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 women’s side, as she showed how far she’d come since the broken leg by setting the outdoor school record to win the Pac-12 final going away in 2:02.93 … 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 … advanced out of the NCAA West Prelims quarterfinal with a time of 2:03.18 … won the Fresno State invitational 800m in 2:04.49 … returned to Australia in March for the Australian Outdoor Championships, placing sixth in the 800m final in 2:06.94 … indoors, ran the 800m leg on the Husky DMR that earned All-America Second Team honors … the DMR finished 11th at NCAA Indoors after suffering a fall on the opening leg … 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 … indoors, ran a season-best 800m time of 2:05.40 at the UW Invitational for the win … stepped up to the mile to start the year and ran 4:46.18 at the UW Indoor Preview … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team … a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll member ... (Cross Country): Raced her first cross country meet at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invite, placing 68th overall in the B race.
2021: 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 … first race back was the West Coast Relays on April 30 where she ran the 800-meters in 2:07.46 … 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 … raced at NCAA West Prelims and finished 26th overall in 2:07.21 … made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll … 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 … named the National Women’s Freshman of the Year by Stride Report after ranking No. 2 in the NCAA in the 800m … 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 … lowered her School Record at the BU Last Chance Qualifier with a run of 2:02.75 … 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 … qualified for NCAA Indoors in the 800m and DMR but did not get to compete as the meet was canceled due to COVID-19 … 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 … parents are Christina and Bruce Thomas … has one older sister, Megg, and one younger brother, Ben … both parents are former Australian Ironman Triathlon Champions … one of the world’s top junior 800-meter runners as evidenced by her silver medal at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Finland … 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 … competed at the 2019 London Diamond League meet, and dropped her 800-meters PR to 2:01.01 in an eighth-place finish … got her first victory in the 2019 European circuit, winning the 800m in 2:02.85 in Nijmegan, Netherlands … ranked fifth in the world in 2019 in the U20 age group and first outside of Africa … placed fourth in the 2019 Australian Track Championships at the senior level in the 800-meters, going 2:02.74 in the final … the 2019 New South Wales state champion at 800-meters … the 2018 Australian U20 Champion at 800-meters … was the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games gold medalist in the 800-meters and the mixed 4x400m … also played three years of water polo, two years of basketball, and was a state qualifier in swimming … the 2018 Vice Captain of her high school.
Major Meets
2018 Australia U20 Champs - 1st, 800m
2018 World Junior Champs - 2nd, 800m | 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)
Outdoor Bests
800m…….1:59.95 - (School Record)
1500m.......4:17.50
Indoor Bests
600m.......1:28.78 - (School Record)
800m.......2:00.95 - (School Record)
Mile.......4:30.38
Academic Honors
2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2023 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2022 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
