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Evan Jenkins
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Camas, Wash.
- High School:
- Camas
Bio
2024 All-Big Ten First Team Cross Country
2024 All-West Region Cross Country
2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier
2024 All-America Second Team (DMR)
2024 Pac-12 10,000m Runner-Up
2023 All-Pac-12 Second Team Cross Country
2023 All-West Region Cross Country
2024 Cross Country: Raced in UW’s top-three at all three championship races, helping UW return to the NCAA Championships and win the West Regional team title … at NCAAs, finished 103rd overall, third on the squad, as UW placed 16th overall … was the second Husky finisher at Regionals, in ninth-place, in 29:14 as the Huskies won the title for the first time since 2015 … at UW’s first trip to Big Tens, placed sixth overall and second on the squad in 22:57 for First Team All-Big Ten honors as UW placed second as a team … was fourth on the team in 67th-place at the season-opening Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invite … named to the Fall Academic All-Big Ten Team.
2024 Track: Outstanding redshirt freshman season, breaking the School Record in the 10,000-meters, racing at the Olympic Trials, running a sub-four-minute mile, taking a Pac-12 silver medal, and earning All-America honors … won Pac-12 Men’s Track Athlete of the Week honors on Apr. 2 following his 10k School Record at the Stanford Invitational, where he got the overall victory in 28:04.58, breaking Kieran Lumb’s record from 2022 by seven seconds … placed 22nd in the 10,000-meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene … scored 9 points towards the Huskies defending their Pac-12 team title, taking runner-up in the 10,000-meters and then placing eighth in the 5,000-meters in Boulder … was sixth in the 5k at the Payton Jordan Invite in a PR of 13:38.01, going to No. 5 in school history … indoors, ran the lead-off 1,200m leg on the DMR at the NCAA Indoor Championships which placed ninth to earn Second Team All-America … broke four minutes in the mile for the first time at the Ken Shannon Last Chance meet, running 3:59.54 … went to No. 5 in school history in the 3,000-meters, going 7:46.58 at the Husky Classic for sixth … also ran a quick 3k of 7:51.95 at the UW Invitational in his season debut … earned both USTFCCCA All-Academic honors and Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2023 Cross Country: Came up big for the men at the Pac-12 and Regional Championships with his two best races to date … at the West Regional meet, placed 19th overall in 29:41 for 10k, as the No. 2 Husky finisher, his highest finish among the team … earned All-West Region honors … was the No. 3 Husky finisher at his first Pac-12 Championships, placing 10th overall in 23:12, to earn All-Pac-12 Second Team distinction … at the season-opening Virginia Invitational, was 149th overall and fifth on the team … earned a spot on the Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2023 Track: Redshirted the season, competing unattached indoors and out … outdoors, won the 10k at the OSU High Performance Meet on Apr. 28 with a time of 29:29.64 … a strong victory in the 5k at the Portland Track Festival, going 13:54.65 on June 4 … indoors, ran the 3k at the Husky Classic, placing 24th overall in 8:01.69.
2022 Cross Country: Raced once in the fall, competing at the season-opening Cowboy Jamboree in Stillwater, Okla. and finishing 115th overall, good for the No. 4 Husky scorer on the day.
High School and Personal: Born in Vancouver, Washington … parents are Jenna and Rick Jenkins … mother ran cross country and track at the University of Oregon from 1991-95 and was a multi-time All-American as well as an Oregon state champion in high school … aunt on mother’s side is former Husky All-American Tara Carlson, who ran at UW from 1993-96 and who led the Husky cross country team at the NCAA Championships three years in a row, including an 8th-place finish in 1995, and was All-Pac-12 First Team three times … was fourth at the Washington 4A state meet as just a sophomore in 2019, and was 18th at Nike Cross Regionals … a district champion at 800m and 1600m in 2020 … in 2021, ran a 3,200m PR of 8:50.77 that ranked 12th nationally … moved to Israel during the 2020-21 school year and was the Israeli U20 National Cross Country Champion … raced several times in Europe in the spring of 2022, running a 1,500-meters in Belgium in 3:52.22 and a 3,000-meters in Israel in 8:17.71 … considering Environmental Engineering major.
Major Meets
2023 Pac-12 XC - 10th (3rd UW)
2023 Regional XC - 19th (2nd UW)
2024 NCAA Indoors - 9th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
2024 Pac-12 TF - 8th, 5000m | 2nd, 10000m
2024 NCAA Prelims TF - 45th, 10000m
2024 U.S. Olympic Trials - 22nd, 10000m
2024 Big Ten XC - 6th (2nd UW)
2024 Regional XC - 9th (2nd UW)
2024 NCAA XC - 103rd (3rd UW)
2025 Big Ten Indoor TF - 10th, 3000m | 14th, 5000m
Outdoor Bests
1500m.......3:45.01
5000m.......13:38.01
10000m.......28:04.58 - School Record
Indoor Bests
Mile.......3:58.48
3000m…….7:46.17
5000m.......14:05.30
Academic Honors
2024 Fall Academic All-Big Ten Team
2024 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2024 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team XC
2023 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
2024 All-West Region Cross Country
2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier
2024 All-America Second Team (DMR)
2024 Pac-12 10,000m Runner-Up
2023 All-Pac-12 Second Team Cross Country
2023 All-West Region Cross Country
2024 Cross Country: Raced in UW’s top-three at all three championship races, helping UW return to the NCAA Championships and win the West Regional team title … at NCAAs, finished 103rd overall, third on the squad, as UW placed 16th overall … was the second Husky finisher at Regionals, in ninth-place, in 29:14 as the Huskies won the title for the first time since 2015 … at UW’s first trip to Big Tens, placed sixth overall and second on the squad in 22:57 for First Team All-Big Ten honors as UW placed second as a team … was fourth on the team in 67th-place at the season-opening Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invite … named to the Fall Academic All-Big Ten Team.
2024 Track: Outstanding redshirt freshman season, breaking the School Record in the 10,000-meters, racing at the Olympic Trials, running a sub-four-minute mile, taking a Pac-12 silver medal, and earning All-America honors … won Pac-12 Men’s Track Athlete of the Week honors on Apr. 2 following his 10k School Record at the Stanford Invitational, where he got the overall victory in 28:04.58, breaking Kieran Lumb’s record from 2022 by seven seconds … placed 22nd in the 10,000-meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene … scored 9 points towards the Huskies defending their Pac-12 team title, taking runner-up in the 10,000-meters and then placing eighth in the 5,000-meters in Boulder … was sixth in the 5k at the Payton Jordan Invite in a PR of 13:38.01, going to No. 5 in school history … indoors, ran the lead-off 1,200m leg on the DMR at the NCAA Indoor Championships which placed ninth to earn Second Team All-America … broke four minutes in the mile for the first time at the Ken Shannon Last Chance meet, running 3:59.54 … went to No. 5 in school history in the 3,000-meters, going 7:46.58 at the Husky Classic for sixth … also ran a quick 3k of 7:51.95 at the UW Invitational in his season debut … earned both USTFCCCA All-Academic honors and Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2023 Cross Country: Came up big for the men at the Pac-12 and Regional Championships with his two best races to date … at the West Regional meet, placed 19th overall in 29:41 for 10k, as the No. 2 Husky finisher, his highest finish among the team … earned All-West Region honors … was the No. 3 Husky finisher at his first Pac-12 Championships, placing 10th overall in 23:12, to earn All-Pac-12 Second Team distinction … at the season-opening Virginia Invitational, was 149th overall and fifth on the team … earned a spot on the Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2023 Track: Redshirted the season, competing unattached indoors and out … outdoors, won the 10k at the OSU High Performance Meet on Apr. 28 with a time of 29:29.64 … a strong victory in the 5k at the Portland Track Festival, going 13:54.65 on June 4 … indoors, ran the 3k at the Husky Classic, placing 24th overall in 8:01.69.
2022 Cross Country: Raced once in the fall, competing at the season-opening Cowboy Jamboree in Stillwater, Okla. and finishing 115th overall, good for the No. 4 Husky scorer on the day.
High School and Personal: Born in Vancouver, Washington … parents are Jenna and Rick Jenkins … mother ran cross country and track at the University of Oregon from 1991-95 and was a multi-time All-American as well as an Oregon state champion in high school … aunt on mother’s side is former Husky All-American Tara Carlson, who ran at UW from 1993-96 and who led the Husky cross country team at the NCAA Championships three years in a row, including an 8th-place finish in 1995, and was All-Pac-12 First Team three times … was fourth at the Washington 4A state meet as just a sophomore in 2019, and was 18th at Nike Cross Regionals … a district champion at 800m and 1600m in 2020 … in 2021, ran a 3,200m PR of 8:50.77 that ranked 12th nationally … moved to Israel during the 2020-21 school year and was the Israeli U20 National Cross Country Champion … raced several times in Europe in the spring of 2022, running a 1,500-meters in Belgium in 3:52.22 and a 3,000-meters in Israel in 8:17.71 … considering Environmental Engineering major.
Major Meets
2023 Pac-12 XC - 10th (3rd UW)
2023 Regional XC - 19th (2nd UW)
2024 NCAA Indoors - 9th, DMR (All-America Second Team)
2024 Pac-12 TF - 8th, 5000m | 2nd, 10000m
2024 NCAA Prelims TF - 45th, 10000m
2024 U.S. Olympic Trials - 22nd, 10000m
2024 Big Ten XC - 6th (2nd UW)
2024 Regional XC - 9th (2nd UW)
2024 NCAA XC - 103rd (3rd UW)
2025 Big Ten Indoor TF - 10th, 3000m | 14th, 5000m
Outdoor Bests
1500m.......3:45.01
5000m.......13:38.01
10000m.......28:04.58 - School Record
Indoor Bests
Mile.......3:58.48
3000m…….7:46.17
5000m.......14:05.30
Academic Honors
2024 Fall Academic All-Big Ten Team
2024 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2024 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team XC
2023 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
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
