2019 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Denham Patricelli
- Position:
- Throws
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Maple Valley, Wash.
- High School:
- Tahoma
2019 All-America First Team (Javelin)
2019 Pac-12 Javelin Runner-Up
2019: Broke through midway through his senior season with a series of PRs in the javelin that propelled him to his first NCAA Championships and an All-America First Team honor โฆ finished eighth at the NCAA Championships in Austin to score one point for the Dawgs with a best throw of 232-feet, 10-inches โฆ was the Pac-12 Championships runner-up, as he took the lead with a PR of 241-6 on his final attempt but was passed on the final throw of the competition โฆ that 241-6 PR ranks him fifth in school history in the javelin โฆ advanced through NCAA Prelims in second-place overall with a big first attempt mark of 239-3 โฆ first big breakthrough came at the National Relays in Arkansas where he upped his PR by 13 feet with a throw of 236-6 โฆ prior to that his career-best was set in the season-opener at the Stanford Invite where he threw 223-8 for second โฆ won the UW-WSU Dual with a toss of 219-9.
2018: Raised his personal-best in the javelin once again and had a career-best finish at the Pac-12 meet โฆ won the UW-WSU Dual with a new PR of 222-8 โฆ at the Pac-12 Championships, was fourth in the javelin, sending it 216-1 โฆ qualified for NCAA West Preliminaries once again, finishing 19th overall with a best of 212-7 โฆ opened the season with a victory at the Trojan Invitational, throwing 215-2 โฆ also threw 216-11 at the Beach Invitational and 210-4 at the Stanford Invitational โฆ a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2017: Returned to action and raised his career-best in the javelin while scoring at the Pac-12 Championships for the first time โฆ at the Pac-12 meet, took sixth overall with a best mark of 212-feet even โฆ tossed a new PR of nearly eight feet at the UW-WSU Dual as he threw 220-4 to finish second to teammate Carson Fuller โฆ qualified for the NCAA West Prelims in Austin, Texas, finishing 24th overall with a mark of 205-10 โฆ first meet back was the Trojan Invitational where he finished second with a throw of 212-5 โฆ earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2016: Redshirted the season while recovering from an injury.
2015: A key part of UWโs talented javelin crew in his first season, traveling to the Pac-12 Championships and earning a top-10 finish โฆ at the Pac-12 meet in Los Angeles, he threw 203-5 to finish in ninth-place โฆ best throw of the season came in the UW-WSU Dual where he took second overall with a toss of 212-6 โฆ also went over 200-feet at the season-opening Baldy Castillo Invite, where he threw 203-7 โฆ won the Ken Shannon Invite javelin throw at 190-8 โฆ had a best mark of 197-1 at the Triton Invitational.
High School and Personal: Born in Seattle โฆ parents are Monique Bloedel and Jim Patricelli โฆ father and both grandfathers attended UW ... grandfather Ron Patricelli competed on the UW track & field team and grandfather, Elmen (Red) Bloedel, played basketball at Portland and obtained his Masters in EE at UW โฆ one of the top javelin throwers in the nation, winning every meet he competed in as a senior on his way to winning the 2014 4A Washington state title with a throw of 204-6 โฆ ranked No. 8 nationally with a PR of 210-3 โฆ also threw an even 200-feet to win the 2014 district title โฆ also won the state title as a junior in 2013 with a big throw of 205-7 โฆ also ran on both relays, making it to state on the 4x400m relay as a junior โฆ won the 2011 Junior Olympic Nationals javelin title in Wichita, Kansas with a toss of 191-4 โฆ earned a win at the 2013 World Youth Championship Trials in Illinois, throwing 221-5 with the lighter implement โฆ also lettered in football, earning SPSL All-League offense and defense honors as a senior โฆ a 2014 U.S. Marines Student-Athlete Award winner โฆ graduated with a 3.42 GPA.
Major Meets
2015 Pac-12 - 9th, Javelin
2017 Pac-12 - 6th, Javelin
2017 NCAA Prelims - 24th, Javelin
2018 Pac-12 - 4th, Javelin
2018 NCAA Prelims - 19th, Javelin
2019 Pac-12 - 2nd, Javelin
2019 NCAA Prelims - 2nd, Javelin
2019 NCAA Outdoors - 8th, Javelin (All-America First Team)
Outdoor Bests
Javelinโฆโฆ.241-6
Academic Honors
2019ย Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
2018ย Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
2017 Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
