2017 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Fred Huxham
- Position:
- Distances
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Ross, Calif.
- High School:
- Redwood
2019 All-America Second Team (3,000mย Indoors)
2015, 2016, 2018 All-West Region in Cross Country
2018-19 (Track): Enjoyed his best season on the track as a senior, earning his first All-America honor indoors with a 10th-place finish in the 3,000-meters โฆ outdoors, finished 14th at the NCAA West Prelims in the 5,000-meters, just missing a spot at nationals by two places, running 13:58.16 โฆ finished eighth in the 5k at the Pac-12 Championships in 13:54.22 โฆ ran the 5,000-meters in 13:49.47 at the Cardinal Classic โฆ won the 5k at the UW-WSU Dual โฆ capped his indoor career at his first NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, taking 10th in the 3k in 7:58.95 to earn Second Team All-America โฆ opened his indoor season with a big PR in the 3,000-meters, running 7:51.82 at the UW Invitational for the third-fastest mark in school history โฆ ran another big PR in the 5,000-meters at the Husky Classic, crossing in 13:42.67 to jump to No. 2 in school history โฆ anchored the DMR at the MPSF Championships, taking fourth in 9:45.19 ...ย (Cross Country): Enjoyed his best cross country season as a senior, helping lead UW to sixth-place at the NCAA Championships for its best finish in 25 years and second-best all-time โฆ capped his cross country career with a 58th-place finish at the NCAA Championships, a career-best by 42 places, as he was the No. 3 Husky finisher in 30:13 โฆ was the No. 3 Husky at West Regionals, in 17th-place in 29:52, helping UW take runner-up honors โฆ had a career-best Pac-12 finish in 20th-place as the No. 5 runner on the team as UW took second for its best Pac-12 finish in 24 years โฆ opened his season at Pre-Nationals in Wisconsin where he was 34th overall, fourth on the team, in 24:21 as the Huskies finished second โฆ a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2017-18 (Track): Ran several personal-bests during the season but was hindered late in the year by injury โฆ stepped up to the 10,000-meters for the first time at the Pac-12 Championships and was 11th in 30:16.99 โฆ ran a 5,000-meter time of 13:57.72 at the Stanford Invitational which would have been an NCAA Prelims qualifier but was unable to make the trip โฆ set a new 1,500-meters PR of 3:46.28 at the Bryan Clay Invite โฆ third in the 5,000m at the UW-WSU Dual in 14:32.51 โฆ fifth in the 3k at the Pepsi Team Invite in 8:34.38 and eighth in the 1,500m in 3:51.74 โฆ indoors, posted the new No. 5 time in school history in the 3,000-meters, going 7:56.98 at the Husky Classic โฆ 12th in the 3k at the MPSF Championships in 8:04.58 โฆ also set a new mile PR of 4:05.26 at the UW Invitational โฆ earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention ... (Cross Country): Redshirted the fall season.
2016-17 (Track): Competed just twice during the track season, but ran two indoor PRs including one of the fastest indoor 5ks in school history โฆ opened up at the UW Invitational, running a 3k PR of 8:05.23 to take 12th โฆ at the Husky Classic, ran a 5,000-meter time of 13:51.87, going to No. 4 on the UW top-10 list ...ย (Cross Country):ย An impressive season culminating in an individual bid to the NCAA Cross Country Championships โฆ ran at the national meet for the third straight year, finishing exactly 100th for the second year in a row, in a time of 30-minutes, 51-seconds โฆ reached NCAAs by turning in one of the best NCAA Regional runs ever by a Husky, as he took third overall at the West Regional meet in Sacramento in 29:47, the best Regional finish by a Dawg since 1993 โฆ earned All-West Region honors โฆ finished 31st at the Pac-12 Championships, second among Huskies, in 25:07 โฆ was the leading Husky at the Wisconsin Invite, placing 37th overall โฆ opened his season at the Washington Invitational, finishing 16th overall and fourth on the team in 23:57.
2015-16 (Track): A great redshirt freshman track season as he broke the UW freshman 5,000-meters record and scored at the Pac-12 Championships in Seattle with one of the top times in school history โฆ at the Pac-12 meet, lowered his 5k PR to 13:44.39, finishing seventh overall, and going to No. 4 in school history with the time โฆ competed at his first NCAA West Preliminary Championships in Kansas, finishing 17th overall out of the field of 48 runners in the 5k with a time of 14:23.44 โฆ won his section of the Payton Jordan Invitational 5,000m at 13:59.77 โฆ second in the 3k at the UW-WSU Dual in 8:36.91 โฆ took fourth in the 5k at the Pepsi Team Invitational in 14:11.87 โฆ opened his outdoor season with a 1,500m time of 3:49.79 at the Stanford Invitational โฆ competed just once indoors, running 14:20.65 for 5k at the Husky Classic ...ย (Cross Country):ย Ran in the Husky top-five all fall to help Washington finish eighth at the NCAA Championships, its second-best finish in program history โฆ at the national championships, placed 100thย overall as the No. 4 Husky finisher, an improvement of 116 spots from the previous year โฆ was the No. 5 Husky at the West Regional Championships, which UW won for the first time in school history, placing 22ndย overall to earn All-Region honors โฆ also finished 22ndย at the Pac-12 Championships, third on the squad, in a time of 23:48 to help UW place fourth โฆ was the fifth Husky at the Wisconsin Invitational, in 134th-place overall โฆ fastest 8k of the year at the Washington Invite, running 23:42 to finish 21stย overall as the No. 2 Husky โฆ opened the season finishing third at the Sundodger Invite in 24:10, second among Dawgs โฆ named a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2014-15 (Track):ย Redshirted the track season but ran some excellent races unattached โฆ at the Payton Jordan Invitational, ran a 5,000-meters PR of 13:50.10 that would have ranked as the No. 3 time in school history had it been run in uniform โฆ also broke 14-minutes at the Stanford Invitational, as he crossed in 13:58.37 โฆ ran another PR in the 1,500-meters at the Ken Shannon Invite, finishing in 3:46.82 โฆ indoors, ran once unattached at the UW Indoor Preview, going 8:08.38 for 3,000-meters ...ย (Cross Country):ย Raced five times in his first college season, twice unattached and then the final three postseason races in uniform โฆ competed at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, finishing 216thย overall and sixth on the squad โฆ also was sixth on the team at West Regionals, finishing 56thย overall in 30:38 over the 10k course โฆ made his official debut at the Pac-12 Championships in Oakland, placing 51stย overall and eighth on the team in 24:59 โฆ running unattached, got a win at the Emerald City Open at Woodland Park, finishing in 25:34 โฆ placed 10thย at the season-opening Sundodger Invite in 24:28 ... after the collegiate season, he took eighth at the U.S. Junior Cross Country Championships, qualifying him for the Pan Am Junior XC Championships, where he finished eighth in Colombia.
High School and Personal:ย Born in San Francisco, Calif. โฆ parents are Leslie Holpit and Fred Huxham โฆ has one younger brother, Theo, who plays soccer for the San Jose Earthquakes developmental system โฆ One of the top distance runners in the state of California, he won the CIF state title at 3,200-meters as a senior, running a PR of 8:54.24 in the finals, the 14th-fastest time in the nation โฆ also won the North Coast title and the NCS Meet of Champions title at 3,200-meters in 2014 โฆ ran at the Brooks PR Invite, taking ninth in the mile in 4:10.53 โฆ also ran the mile at the 2014Stanford Invitational, winning in 4:15.80 โฆ took fourth at the 2013 CIF Div. III state cross country championships and was second in the North Coast Section โฆ also was a top-five state finisher as a junior, taking third overall and fourth at the Stanford Invitational that year โฆ took third in the 3,000-meters at the 2013 Stanford Invitational on the track, running 8:38.15 โฆ ran in the Dempsey in 2013 at the UW Indoor Open, running 4:19.95 for the mile โฆ coached by Laura Schmitt, mother of former Husky Jake Schmitt, who was a volunteer coach โฆ named the Marin County Athletic League Athlete of the Year in 2014 and the MCAL Runner of the Year for cross country in 2013.
Major Meets
2014 Pac-12 XC - 51st (8th UW)
2014 Regional XC - 56th (6th UW)
2014 NCAA XC - 216th (6th UW)
2015 USA Jr XC - 8th
2015 Pan Am Cup Jr XC - 8th
2015 Pac-12 XC - 22nd (3rd UW)
2015 Regional XC - 22nd (5th UW)
2015 NCAA XC - 100th (4th UW)
2016 Pac-12 TF - 7th, 5000m
2016 NCAA Prelims TF - 17th, 5000m
2016 Pac-12 XC - 31st (2nd UW)
2016 Regional XC - 3rd (1st UW)
2016 NCAA XC - 100th (Ind.)
2018 MPSFย TF - 12th, 3000m
2018 Pac-12 TF - 11th, 10000m
2018 Pac-12 XC - 20th (5th UW)
2018 Regional XC - 17th (3rd UW)
2018 NCAA XC - 58th (3rd UW)
2019 MPSF TF - 4th, DMR
2019 NCAA Indoors - 10th, 3000mย (All-America Second Team)
2019 Pac-12 TF - 8th, 5000m
2019 NCAA Prelims TF - 14th, 5000m
Outdoor Bests
1500m.......3:46.28
5000m.......13:44.39
10000m.......30:16.99
Indoor Bests
Mile.......4:05.26
3000m.......7:51.82
5000m.......13:42.67
Academic Honors
2019 Pac-12 All-Academic TF honorable mention
2018ย Pac-12 All-Academic XC honorable mentionย
2018 Pac-12 All-Academic TF honorable mention
2015 Pac-12 All-Academic XC honorable mentionย
