Nolan Topper_20240510 PAC-12 TRACK KL502

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • Two-time Pac-12 team XC champions (2022, 2023)
  • Three-time West Region XC team champions (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic (T&F 2022)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (T&F winter 2023)

Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)

  • 10,000: 28:44.15
  • 5,000: 13:54.23
  • 3,000: 8:08.53i
  • Mile: 4:07.36i
  • 1,500: 3:47.47
  • 800: 1:56.30

As a Junior (2023-24)
Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions * NCAA West Region Champions

  • Did not compete

As a Sophomore (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Ran a season-best 3,000 of 8:13.03 at the Windy City Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • 27th at Pac-12 Championships
  • Alternate for NCAA Championships

As a Freshman (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 10,000
  • Broke the Stanford freshmen record in the 10,000 with 28:44.15 at the Mt. SAC Relays
  • Ran 5,000 PB of 13:54.23 at the Stanford Invitational 
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

Indoors

  • Made collegiate track debut with a PB in the 3,00 of 8:08.53 at the UW Indoor Preview
  • Ran 14:03.79 in the 5,000 at the Husky Classic

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • Placed 35th at the Pac-12 Championships as team's No. 6 runner
  • Made collegiate debut at the USF Invitational, placing 15th

Prior to Stanford

  • Sixth in the Brooks PR Invitational in the two-mile, in a lifetime best 8:51.83
  • Fifth in the Arcadia Invitational 3,200 in 8:52.95
  • Double winner at the Central Coast Section Championships, in the 1,600 and 3,200
  • His CCS winning time of 4:07.97 for 1,600 was a personal best
  • Ran 14:45.30 on a three-mile cross country race in Dublin, Calif.
  • A 2019 Foot Locker national cross country finalist, placing 30th after taking seventh in the West Regional
  • Tenth at the 2019 California state track championships in the 3,200 as a sophomore
  • In cross country, helped Bellarmine to the 2019 CCS Division I title and a team-time course record at Crystal Springs in Belmont
  • Helped Bells to third in the State Division I cross country race, placing sixth as an individual
  • At the Desert Twilight Festival XC in Arizona in 2020, placed seventh in the unattached/club sweepstakes race, running 15:13.17 for 5,000

Personal

  • Twin of Bellarmine Prep and Stanford teammate Galen
  • Sons of an ultramarathoner father
  • Coached in middle school by former Stanford star and former women's head cross country coach Dena Dey Evans

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2023-24Cross Country (0)----------
2022-23Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (2)3,0008:13.03------
5,00014:18.72------
Cross Country (4)8K23:43.727 (23:43.7)----
2021-22Outdoors (6)10,00028:44.1510 (29:06.76)40 (30:16.89)--
5,00013:54.2334 (14:52.68)----
3,0008:17.27------
1,5003:47.47------
8001:56.30------
Indoors (4)5,00014:03.79--
3,0008:08.53--
Mile4:07.36--
Cross Country (4)8K24:11.835 (25:15.2)----
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