2007 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Chris Woods
- Position:
- Middle Distance
- Height:
- 5-9
- Weight:
- 149
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Atlanta, Ga.
- High School/Previous School:
- B.E. Mays HS
2008 OUTDOOR:
Finished with a personal-best time of 47.30 at the Jaguar Premier meet in the 400m in second place … Also at the Jaguar Premier, Woods along with John Bailey, Jamil Hubbard, and Emanuel Mayers recorded a qualifying mark in the in their first-place finishing 4x400m relay squad in 3:09.30 (3/8) … Ran to a second-place finish in the 400m at the USM Invitational while he and the 4x400m relay won first (3/15) … Finished second in the 400m at the Jace LaCoste Invite and ran the final leg of the winning 4x400m relay team (3/22) … Recorded a regional qualifying mark at the Bulldog Invitational in the 800m run with a time of 1:48.40 in first place while also earning a regional qualifying time for the second time on the season at 3:07.70 in the 4x400m relay with Jamil Hubbard, Golden Coachman and John Bailey (3/29) … At the Texas Relays, Woods, Jonathan Rono, Emanuel Mayers and Golden Coachman ran the 4x800m relay in 7:23.22 to finish third and second place in school history … He also ran the 4x400m relay with Hubbard, Bailey and O’Neal Wilder, earning a new NCAA regional qualifying standard at 3:05.28 in fifth place (4/5) … At the Ole Miss Invite, the 4x400m squad won first at 3:08.47 with Coachman, Hubbard, and Mayers (4/12) … Took first in the 800m at 1:48.55, a regional-qualifying time, at Georgia’s Bulldog Limited (4/19) … Finished in third in the 4x400m relay at 3:05.72 with Bailey, Hubbard and Wilder at the Penn Relays while also finishing in second with the same squad in the sprint medley relay at 3:16.83, moving into fourth all-time at MSU (4/25) … In the Championship of America race for the 4x400m at the Penn Relays, they took fourth (4/26) … Came in fourth place at the Mississippi Open in the 800m () … Took sixth at the SEC Championships in the 800m, also had a season-best 3:05.26 in the 4x400m with squad of Hubbard, Mayers and Wilder (5/18) … At the NCAA Championships, he, Wilder, Mayers and Hubbard finished the 4x400m in the semifinals in 3:05.60 to finish 11th (6/12).
2007 OUTDOOR:
Finished 25th in the preliminaries of the NCAA Championships in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:51.82 ... Qualified for NCAA Championships at the Mideast Regional with his fifth-place finish with a personal-best time of 1:48.15 in the finals of the 800 ... Ran 1:50.30 (11th) in the preliminaries of the 800-meter run at the SEC Championship ... Ran final leg of sprint medley relay that finished fourth at Penn Relays with time of 3:17.93 ... Qualified for NCAA Championships with his 1:49.82 (second place finish) time notched in the 800 at Auburn Invitational ... Finished second in 800-meter run at Mississippi Open, clocking a time of 1:50.03 ... Anchored school-record setting 4x800-meter relay at Texas Relays (7:20.29) ... Competed in 400-meter dash at Bulldog Invitational, finishing fourth (48.12) ... Anchored first-place 4x800 "A" at Georgia Relays (7:31.94) ... Also anchored 4x400-meter "B" relay that finished third at Georgia Relays with time of 3:13.81 ... Placed third in 400-meter dash at FSU Snowbird.
2006 OUTDOOR:
Competed at the NCAA Championships ... Finished 26th in the 800- meter run preliminaries ... At the Mideast Regional, qualified for nationals by finishing fifth in the 800 finals (1:49.14 ) ... Qualified for the regional final in preliminaries by finishing fifth (1:49.91) ... At the SEC Championships, posted a qualifying time of 1:51.19 ...Did not compete in the SEC final due to injury ... Won the Bulldog Invitational title and qualified for the regional, running the second fastest time in the conference this season at 1:48.90 ... At the Auburn Invitational, ran another regional time of 1:48.94 to finish second ... Clocked a time of 48.18 at the FSU Snowbird ... Anchored winning sprint medley relay at the LSU Tiger Relays (3:19.57) ... At the Bulldog Invitational, ran second leg of second-place 4x400-meter relay team that set a regional qualifying mark (3:08.59) ... Anchored second-place sprint medley relay team at Alabama (3:19.08) ... Ran second leg of third-place 4x4 team at FSU (3:12.89) and third leg of the distance medley relay at FSU (10:32.35) ... Ran the anchor leg of the regionally qualifying and sixth-place 4x400-meter relay at the Texas Relays (3:06.64).
2005 OUTDOOR:
During the outdoor season, earned all-American status in the 4x400-meter relay as an alternate ... At the Mideast Regional, ran the anchor leg of the 4x400-meter relay (3:05.99) ... Squad posted fifth fastest qualifying time to advance to the national championships ... At the Southeastern Conference Championships, finished eighth in the 800-meter run ... Ran a regional qualifying time of 1:49.74 in the preliminaries ... Ran the 800-meter run in 1:52.90 at LSU ... Ran second leg of winning 4x400-meter relay that set a regional qualifying mark with a time of 3:09.44 ... Ran first leg of 4x800-meter relay (7:40.28) and third leg of the distance medley relay (10:14.94) at the Texas Relays ... Won the 800-meter run with a time of 1:53.69 at the Bulldog Invitational ... Ran second leg of the second-place distance medley relay team (10:11.02) at Alabama ... Anchored the sprint medley relay team that won at the Snowbird (3:20.98 )... Ran third leg of the 4x400 "B" team that finished fourth at FSU (3:18.40).
HIGH SCHOOL:
Earned three track letters while attending B.E. Mays High School in Atlanta, Ga. ... Earned several awards in the 800-meter run ... As a senior and junior, won Georgia’s High School Man of the Year for the 800.
PERSONAL:
Born Chris Woods on January 29 in Atlanta, Ga. ...Son of Cynthia Blackshear ... Majoring in kinesiology.
