Courtesy Oregon
James Withers
Position: Distance
Height: 5'7"
Year: Redshirt Senior
City/State: Santa Rosa, Calif.
High School: Cardinal Newman
Experience: Redshirt
Returns as a redshirt senior on the track for the outdoor season as a former Pac-10 cross country scorer and a 1,500 meter finalist. Four-year veteran in cross country and indoor track. In 2007, logged personal bests in the outdoor 800 and 1,500 meters, indoor/outdoor mile and outdoor 3,000 meters.
2007-08: Set a season best in the 1,500 meters with his third-place showing at the Pepsi Team Invite (3:51.23). Also had two appearances in the 800. Indoors, ran three mile races, with a best time of 4:09.73 at the MPSF Championships. Ran three cross country events for the Ducks in the first half of the season. Led squad in the Beaver Classic (third, 24:12). Season Bests: Outdoors - 800 Meters - 1:54.24, Oregon Preview, Eugene, Ore. (3/22/08); 1,500 Meters - 3:51.23, Pepsi Team Invite, Eugene, Ore. (4/5/08). Indoors - Mile - 4:09.73, Mountain Pacific Championships, Seattle (3/1/08).
2006-07: Pac-10 finalist in the 1,500 meters. On the track, scored personal bests indoors and outdoors in the middle distances. Advanced to the 1,500 meter final in Pac-10 Championships debut in mid-May. Indoors, scored in the Mountain Pacific Championships mile thanks to his 2.71-second personal best (seventh, 4:05.67). Season Bests: Outdoors - 800 Meters - 1:52.79 (PR), Pepsi Team Invitational, Eugene, Ore. (4/7/07); 1,500 Meters - 3:46.88 (PR), Road to Eugene 08, Eugene, Ore. (5/26/07). Indoors - Mile - 4:05.67 (PR), Mountain Pacific Championships, Seattle, Wash. (2/24/07).
2005-06: Did not race outdoors. Competed once indoors and led UO’s entries in the MPSF Championships mile (eighth, 4:10.06). In cross country, ran in team’s top six in all five races and scored in three contests. Won season opener, the Pier Park Preview (20:29). Placed third for Ducks in next contest, the Willamette Invitational (17th, 24:20), and ranked third on team in his next two races - the Pre-NCAA Invitational and Pac-10 Championships. Season Best: Indoors - Mile - 4:10.06, Mountain Pacific Champs, Seattle, Wash. (2/25/06).
2004-05: USA Junior Championships Competitor in the 1,500 meters. Redshirted indoor and outdoor seasons and ran U.S. Junior Championships 1,500 meters (11th). Was less than a second off his prep mile best in the Oregon Twilight (sixth, 4:11.41) - the season best by a Duck freshman. In fall, was one of two Ducks to run top-seven in all five cross country races. Season Bests: Outdoors - Mile - 4:11.41, Oregon Twilight, Eugene, Ore. (5/7/05). Indoors - Mile - 4:13.48, Washington Invitational, Seattle, Wash. (1/29/05).
Prep: As a senior in 2004, owned some of West Coast’s top marks in the 800 meters (1:53.21) and 1,600 meters (4:10.7), and scored in the 1,600 meters at state (eighth, 4:21.39) and NCS Meet of Champions (first, 4:14.16). Was a state cross country qualifier as a senior and junior. North Coast Section 1,600 meter champ and Redwood Empire record holder in same event. Four-year letterwinner in track and cross country.
Personal: Economics major.
Personal Bests
800 Meters - 1:52.79,
Pepsi Team Invitational,
Eugene, Ore., 4/7/07
1,500 Meters - 3:46.88,
Road to Eugene 08,
Eugene, Ore., 5/26/07
Pac-10 Championships Performances
2007 - 1,500 Meters, 11th, 3:50.54
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Chris Mocko
Class:
Graduated from Stanford
Hometown:
McLean, VA
High School:
Thomas Jefferson
Event:
Distances
Collegiate Career Bests:
3,000 Meter Steeplechase 8:59.85
3,000 Meter 8:15.65i
5,000 Meter 14:27.46i
2008 Season (Junior): A West Regional qualifier in the 3,000-meter steeplechase...finished 14th in the steeplechase at the Pac-10 Championships...ran a career-best time of 9:03.27 in the steeple at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational...finished 10th in the 3,000 meters and the 12th in the 5,000 meters at the MPSF Championships.
2007 Season (Sophomore): Placed 26th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA West Regional... finished 12th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Pac-10 Championships...ran a career-best 8:59.85 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational...ran an indoor career-best 8:25.08 3,000 meters at the UW Invitational...clocked a career-best 15:01.56 in the 5,000 meters at the Husky Classic.
2006 Season (Freshman): Ran a season-best 9:32.97 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at California...posted a season-best 15:08.98 in the 5,000 meters at the Stanford Invitational.
2005 Season: Redshirted.
High School: A 2004 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in McLean, Va....a six-time all-state performer...led his squad to a team championship at the 2002 Virginia High School Cross Country State Championship...a member of Thomas Jefferson's distance medley relay team that earned outdoor All-American honors in 2004...also a member of the 4 x mile relay team that earned indoor All-American honors during the 2002-2003 season.
Cardinal Catalogue: Management science and engineering major...2007 USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team...2007 and 2008 Pac-10 All-Academic second team in cross country...second-team Pac-10 All-Academic and MPSF All-Academic selection in 2008...parents are Paul and Madeline Mocko.
Courtesy Stanford
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