2019 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Burdon, Lilli

Lilli Burdon
- Position:
- Distances
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Auckland, New Zealand
- High School:
- St. Hilda's
- Prev School:
- Oregon
Bio
2019 All-America First Team (DMR Indoors)
2018 All-American in Cross Country
2018 NCAA Distance Medley Relay Champion
2018 All-America First Team (5,000mย Outdoors; DMR Indoors) and Second Team (3,000m Indoors)
2017 All-American in Cross Country
2017 All-Pac-12 First Team in Cross Country
2017 All-America First Team (DMR Indoors) and Second Team (5,000mย Outdoors)
2016 World Junior Championships 1,500m Finalist
2016 All-America First Team (DMR Indoors) and Honorable Mention (1,500m Outdoors)
Burdon Features
ยปย Joining The Pack: Rainsberger And Burdon Help Huskies Build (GoHuskies.com; Nov. 18, 2019)
2019 (Cross Country): Helped lead the Huskies back to the NCAA Championships and an 11th-place finish at Nationals โฆ in her final cross country race, was 118th at the NCAA Championships, the fifth scorer โฆ earned All-West Region honors with a 15th-place finish at Regionals, fifth on the squad, to help the Huskies finish second โฆ was 21st at the Pac-12 Championships in 20:21 as UW took second as a team โฆ was the No. 3 scorer at Pre-Nationals in 21st-place overall in 20:38 as the Huskies got the team win โฆ started the season taking 16th at the John McNichols Invite, third on the squad, in 17:18 โฆ named to the fall Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.
2018-19 (Track): Anchored the distance medley relay to a podium finish at NCAA Indoors to earn First Team All-America honors ... at NCAAs, ran the 1,600mย leg on the DMR that finished seventh in 11:10.94 ... also anchored the DMR when it qualified for NCAAsย with a time of 11:00.35 at the UW Invitational, third-fastest in school history ...ย (Cross Country): A brief season but an All-America season nonetheless in her first season as a Husky โฆ only raced in the three championship meets, and found her form at NCAAs where she finished 33rd overall for her second XC All-America honor and first as a Dawg, helping UW finish ninth as a team โฆ was 33rd at NCAAs after finishing the same place at West Regionals eight days earlier, as she was the No. 4 Husky finisher in Sacramento โฆ in her first race of the season, was 31st at the Pac-12 Championships and fourth on the squad.
2017-18 (Track At Oregon): Capped a great year with a third-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships at 5,000-meters and won an NCAA title indoors as the anchor of the Oregon distance medley relay, leaning for the dramatic win by .03 seconds โฆ ran 15:43.22 in the NCAA 5,000-meter final in Eugene to earn First Team All-America honors โฆ set a 5k PR of 15:34.44 in the West Prelims in Sacramento โฆ finished fourth in the 1,500 meters (4:25.19) and fifth in the 5,000 meters (16:32.15) at the Pac-12 Championships to score seven points collectively for Oregon ... took first place in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:15.16 at the Oregon Twilight ... took sixth place in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:12.52 at the Bryan Clay Invitational ... third in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:24.60 and competed in the 800 meters (2:12.41) at the Pepsi Invitational ... recorded a then-personal best and finished first in the 5000 meters at the Stanford Invitational in 15:42.65 โฆ indoors, ran the final 1,600-meter leg on the DMR and out-leaned Stanfordโs anchor by .03 seconds to get the first women's DMR NCAA title in program history with the fourth-fastest time in collegiate history of 10:51.99 at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... also garnered Second Team All-America honors from a ninth-place finish in the 3,000-meters with a time of 9:04.62 ... moved into the top 10 in the nation in the mile with a time of 4:32.30 at the 2018 MPSF Championships, placing third ... set a new PR and qualified for NCAAs in the 3k with her time of 8:59.18 at the Husky Classic โฆ helped her team take first place in the DMR at the Columbia Challenge in 11:00.03 to record the eighth fastest time in UO history and was also the third collegiate finisher in the mile in 4:35.02 ... finished fifth in the 1,000 meters with a time of 2:45.75 at the UW Indoor Preview ... (Cross Country At Oregon): Earned All-America honors with a 21st place finish at the NCAA Championships with a time of 19:57.6 helping Oregon place fifth as a team ... finished as the second Duck across in every meet throughout the season ... earned All-West Region honors with a ninth-place finish overall at the NCAA West Regional in 19:43 ... second for the Ducks and sixth overall with a time of 19:07 at the Pac-12 Championships, earning all-Pac-12 first-team honors ... seventh-place with a time of 20:00 at Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute ... was the overall runner-up at the Bill Dellinger Invitational in a time of 19:05.
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2016-17 (Track At Oregon): Earned Second Team All-American honors in the 5,000 meters outdoors and helped the DMR to a third-place finish at NCAA Indoors after setting the collegiate DMR record earlier in the year ... placed ninth in the 5,000 meters (15:50.15) at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene for a New Zealand Junior record ... following NCAAs, raced at the Stumptownย Twilight Meet and ran a new 1,500-meter PR of 4:11.19 breaking the New Zealand Junior record ... advanced to the NCAA Championships after finishing sixth in the 5k at West Prelims in a time of 16:43.82 ... sixth in the 5,000 meters (16:15.06) at the Pac-12 Championships ... ran ย 4:17.07 for 1,500m at the Stanford Invitational โฆ helped her 4x1500 relay team finish third (17:39.78) at the Penn Relays ... indoors, was the lead-off 1,200m leg on the third-place DMR team at the NCAA Indoor Championships, earning All-America status, as the team ran 11:00.68 in the final ... led off the DMR to an NCAA record time of 10:48.77 at the Columbia East-West Challenge on Jan. 27 โฆ also placed fourth in the mile at Columbia in 4:38.80 โฆ finished the mile in 4:36.98 at the Husky Classic, setting a new PR ... fourth-place at the MPSF Championships in the mile with a time of 4:38.70 โฆ (Cross Country At Oregon): Redshirted the fall season.
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2015-16 (Track At Oregon): An NCAA Championships and World U20 Championships qualifier at 1,500 meters in her first season and scored at NCAA Indoors on the DMR ... reached the NCAA Outdoor Championships and placed 19th overall in the semifinals in a time of 4:20.55 to earn All-America honorable mention โฆ reached NCAAs by taking seventh in the West Prelims in 4:21.33 โฆ qualified for the 2016 World Junior (U20) Championships, reaching the final with a time of 4:21.49 in the prelims and then finishing 12th in the final โฆ ran a seasonal-best 4:18.33 in the semifinals of the 1,500 meters at the Pac-12 Championships and then placed sixth in the final in 4:19.44 ... won the 1,500 at the OSU High Performance Meet in 4:19.92 โฆ indoors, arrived at Oregon for the 2016 winter term ... earned first All-America certificate as a member of Oregon's seventh-place distance medley relay team (11:05.96) at the NCAA Championships, running the opening 1,200-meters โฆ was the MPSF Championships runner-up in the mile in 4:39.42 โฆ ran a season-best 4:38.24 in the mile at the Husky Classic ... (Cross Country At Oregon): Had not yet arrived on campus for the fall season.
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High School:ย Born in Auckland, New Zealand ... parents are Rachel and Andrew Burdon ... has two younger brothers, Hugo and Guy and one younger sister, Issy ... father played cricket in college and mother played netball ... Placed ninth in the 1,500 meters at the 2015 World Youth Championships โฆ New Zealand and Australian U18 1,500 meter champion โฆ Australian Championships finalist in the 1500 โฆ 2014 Australian All Schools Champion at 1500 meters.
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Major Meets
2015 World Youth Champs โ 9th, 1500m
2016 MPSF TF โ 2nd, Mile
2016 NCAA Indoors โ 7th, DMR (All-America First Team)
2016 Pac-12 TF โ 6th, 1500m
2016 NCAA Prelims TF โ 7th, 1500m
2016 NCAA Outdoors โ 19th, 1500m (All-America Honorable Mention)
2016 World Junior Champs โ 12th, 1500m
2017 MPSF TF โ 4th, Mile
2017 NCAA Indoors โ 3rd, DMR (All-America First Team)
2017 Pac-12 TF โ 13th, 1500m | 6th, 5000m
2017 NCAA Prelims TF โ 40th, 1500m | 6th, 5000m
2017 NCAA Outdoors โ 9th, 5000m (All-America Second Team)
2017 Pac-12 XC โ 6th (2nd UO)
2017 Regional XC โ 9th (2nd UO)
2017 NCAA XC โ 21st (2nd UO) (All-America)
2018 MPSF TF โ 3rd, Mile
2018 NCAA Indoors โ 9th, 3000m (All-America Second Team) | 1st, DMR (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2018 Pac-12 TF โ 4th, 1500m | 5th, 5000m
2018 NCAA Prelims TF โ 11th, 5000m
2018 NCAA Outdoors โ 3rd, 5000m (All-America First Team)
2018 Pac-12 XC - 31st (4th UW)
2018 Regional XC - 33rdย (4th UW)
2018 NCAA XC - 33rd (2nd UW) (All-America)
2019 MPSF TF - 3rd, 3000m
2019 NCAA Indoors - 7th, DMR (All-America First Team)
2019 Pac-12 XC - 21st (6th UW)
2019 Regional XC - 15th (5th UW)
2019 NCAA XC - 118th (5th UW)
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Outdoor Bests
800mโฆโฆ.2:12.41
1500mโฆโฆ.4:11.19
5000mโฆโฆ.15:34.44
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Indoor Bests
Mileโฆโฆ.4:32.30
3000mโฆโฆ.8:59.18
5000m.......16:11.67
Academic Honors
2019 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic XCย
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
2018 All-American in Cross Country
2018 NCAA Distance Medley Relay Champion
2018 All-America First Team (5,000mย Outdoors; DMR Indoors) and Second Team (3,000m Indoors)
2017 All-American in Cross Country
2017 All-Pac-12 First Team in Cross Country
2017 All-America First Team (DMR Indoors) and Second Team (5,000mย Outdoors)
2016 World Junior Championships 1,500m Finalist
2016 All-America First Team (DMR Indoors) and Honorable Mention (1,500m Outdoors)
Burdon Features
ยปย Joining The Pack: Rainsberger And Burdon Help Huskies Build (GoHuskies.com; Nov. 18, 2019)
2019 (Cross Country): Helped lead the Huskies back to the NCAA Championships and an 11th-place finish at Nationals โฆ in her final cross country race, was 118th at the NCAA Championships, the fifth scorer โฆ earned All-West Region honors with a 15th-place finish at Regionals, fifth on the squad, to help the Huskies finish second โฆ was 21st at the Pac-12 Championships in 20:21 as UW took second as a team โฆ was the No. 3 scorer at Pre-Nationals in 21st-place overall in 20:38 as the Huskies got the team win โฆ started the season taking 16th at the John McNichols Invite, third on the squad, in 17:18 โฆ named to the fall Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.
2018-19 (Track): Anchored the distance medley relay to a podium finish at NCAA Indoors to earn First Team All-America honors ... at NCAAs, ran the 1,600mย leg on the DMR that finished seventh in 11:10.94 ... also anchored the DMR when it qualified for NCAAsย with a time of 11:00.35 at the UW Invitational, third-fastest in school history ...ย (Cross Country): A brief season but an All-America season nonetheless in her first season as a Husky โฆ only raced in the three championship meets, and found her form at NCAAs where she finished 33rd overall for her second XC All-America honor and first as a Dawg, helping UW finish ninth as a team โฆ was 33rd at NCAAs after finishing the same place at West Regionals eight days earlier, as she was the No. 4 Husky finisher in Sacramento โฆ in her first race of the season, was 31st at the Pac-12 Championships and fourth on the squad.
2017-18 (Track At Oregon): Capped a great year with a third-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships at 5,000-meters and won an NCAA title indoors as the anchor of the Oregon distance medley relay, leaning for the dramatic win by .03 seconds โฆ ran 15:43.22 in the NCAA 5,000-meter final in Eugene to earn First Team All-America honors โฆ set a 5k PR of 15:34.44 in the West Prelims in Sacramento โฆ finished fourth in the 1,500 meters (4:25.19) and fifth in the 5,000 meters (16:32.15) at the Pac-12 Championships to score seven points collectively for Oregon ... took first place in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:15.16 at the Oregon Twilight ... took sixth place in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:12.52 at the Bryan Clay Invitational ... third in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:24.60 and competed in the 800 meters (2:12.41) at the Pepsi Invitational ... recorded a then-personal best and finished first in the 5000 meters at the Stanford Invitational in 15:42.65 โฆ indoors, ran the final 1,600-meter leg on the DMR and out-leaned Stanfordโs anchor by .03 seconds to get the first women's DMR NCAA title in program history with the fourth-fastest time in collegiate history of 10:51.99 at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... also garnered Second Team All-America honors from a ninth-place finish in the 3,000-meters with a time of 9:04.62 ... moved into the top 10 in the nation in the mile with a time of 4:32.30 at the 2018 MPSF Championships, placing third ... set a new PR and qualified for NCAAs in the 3k with her time of 8:59.18 at the Husky Classic โฆ helped her team take first place in the DMR at the Columbia Challenge in 11:00.03 to record the eighth fastest time in UO history and was also the third collegiate finisher in the mile in 4:35.02 ... finished fifth in the 1,000 meters with a time of 2:45.75 at the UW Indoor Preview ... (Cross Country At Oregon): Earned All-America honors with a 21st place finish at the NCAA Championships with a time of 19:57.6 helping Oregon place fifth as a team ... finished as the second Duck across in every meet throughout the season ... earned All-West Region honors with a ninth-place finish overall at the NCAA West Regional in 19:43 ... second for the Ducks and sixth overall with a time of 19:07 at the Pac-12 Championships, earning all-Pac-12 first-team honors ... seventh-place with a time of 20:00 at Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute ... was the overall runner-up at the Bill Dellinger Invitational in a time of 19:05.
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2016-17 (Track At Oregon): Earned Second Team All-American honors in the 5,000 meters outdoors and helped the DMR to a third-place finish at NCAA Indoors after setting the collegiate DMR record earlier in the year ... placed ninth in the 5,000 meters (15:50.15) at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene for a New Zealand Junior record ... following NCAAs, raced at the Stumptownย Twilight Meet and ran a new 1,500-meter PR of 4:11.19 breaking the New Zealand Junior record ... advanced to the NCAA Championships after finishing sixth in the 5k at West Prelims in a time of 16:43.82 ... sixth in the 5,000 meters (16:15.06) at the Pac-12 Championships ... ran ย 4:17.07 for 1,500m at the Stanford Invitational โฆ helped her 4x1500 relay team finish third (17:39.78) at the Penn Relays ... indoors, was the lead-off 1,200m leg on the third-place DMR team at the NCAA Indoor Championships, earning All-America status, as the team ran 11:00.68 in the final ... led off the DMR to an NCAA record time of 10:48.77 at the Columbia East-West Challenge on Jan. 27 โฆ also placed fourth in the mile at Columbia in 4:38.80 โฆ finished the mile in 4:36.98 at the Husky Classic, setting a new PR ... fourth-place at the MPSF Championships in the mile with a time of 4:38.70 โฆ (Cross Country At Oregon): Redshirted the fall season.
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2015-16 (Track At Oregon): An NCAA Championships and World U20 Championships qualifier at 1,500 meters in her first season and scored at NCAA Indoors on the DMR ... reached the NCAA Outdoor Championships and placed 19th overall in the semifinals in a time of 4:20.55 to earn All-America honorable mention โฆ reached NCAAs by taking seventh in the West Prelims in 4:21.33 โฆ qualified for the 2016 World Junior (U20) Championships, reaching the final with a time of 4:21.49 in the prelims and then finishing 12th in the final โฆ ran a seasonal-best 4:18.33 in the semifinals of the 1,500 meters at the Pac-12 Championships and then placed sixth in the final in 4:19.44 ... won the 1,500 at the OSU High Performance Meet in 4:19.92 โฆ indoors, arrived at Oregon for the 2016 winter term ... earned first All-America certificate as a member of Oregon's seventh-place distance medley relay team (11:05.96) at the NCAA Championships, running the opening 1,200-meters โฆ was the MPSF Championships runner-up in the mile in 4:39.42 โฆ ran a season-best 4:38.24 in the mile at the Husky Classic ... (Cross Country At Oregon): Had not yet arrived on campus for the fall season.
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High School:ย Born in Auckland, New Zealand ... parents are Rachel and Andrew Burdon ... has two younger brothers, Hugo and Guy and one younger sister, Issy ... father played cricket in college and mother played netball ... Placed ninth in the 1,500 meters at the 2015 World Youth Championships โฆ New Zealand and Australian U18 1,500 meter champion โฆ Australian Championships finalist in the 1500 โฆ 2014 Australian All Schools Champion at 1500 meters.
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Major Meets
2015 World Youth Champs โ 9th, 1500m
2016 MPSF TF โ 2nd, Mile
2016 NCAA Indoors โ 7th, DMR (All-America First Team)
2016 Pac-12 TF โ 6th, 1500m
2016 NCAA Prelims TF โ 7th, 1500m
2016 NCAA Outdoors โ 19th, 1500m (All-America Honorable Mention)
2016 World Junior Champs โ 12th, 1500m
2017 MPSF TF โ 4th, Mile
2017 NCAA Indoors โ 3rd, DMR (All-America First Team)
2017 Pac-12 TF โ 13th, 1500m | 6th, 5000m
2017 NCAA Prelims TF โ 40th, 1500m | 6th, 5000m
2017 NCAA Outdoors โ 9th, 5000m (All-America Second Team)
2017 Pac-12 XC โ 6th (2nd UO)
2017 Regional XC โ 9th (2nd UO)
2017 NCAA XC โ 21st (2nd UO) (All-America)
2018 MPSF TF โ 3rd, Mile
2018 NCAA Indoors โ 9th, 3000m (All-America Second Team) | 1st, DMR (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2018 Pac-12 TF โ 4th, 1500m | 5th, 5000m
2018 NCAA Prelims TF โ 11th, 5000m
2018 NCAA Outdoors โ 3rd, 5000m (All-America First Team)
2018 Pac-12 XC - 31st (4th UW)
2018 Regional XC - 33rdย (4th UW)
2018 NCAA XC - 33rd (2nd UW) (All-America)
2019 MPSF TF - 3rd, 3000m
2019 NCAA Indoors - 7th, DMR (All-America First Team)
2019 Pac-12 XC - 21st (6th UW)
2019 Regional XC - 15th (5th UW)
2019 NCAA XC - 118th (5th UW)
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Outdoor Bests
800mโฆโฆ.2:12.41
1500mโฆโฆ.4:11.19
5000mโฆโฆ.15:34.44
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Indoor Bests
Mileโฆโฆ.4:32.30
3000mโฆโฆ.8:59.18
5000m.......16:11.67
Academic Honors
2019 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic XCย
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
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