Willie Brown

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Cleveland, Ohio
High School:
John Adams HS

Honors
• USTFCCCA All-America (800m, First Team, 2011 Outdoor)
• School record holder: Outdoor 800m (1:45.91)
• 3x MAC Champion (DMR, 2012 Indoor; 800m Indoor and Outdoor, 2011)
• 5x All-MAC Honoree (3x First Team, 2x Second Team)

as a Senior (2013): Did not compete.

as a Junior (2012): Indoor... Placed fourth in the 800-meters at the MAC Indoor Championships (Feb. 25) with a time of 1:53.60 ... earned All-MAC First Team honors after running the second leg of the Zips’ MAC Champion DMR team that set a school record with a collective time of 9:47.73 ... placed second in the 800m at the Mark Colligan Memorial (Jan. 28) with the fourth-fastest time in the MAC, 1:51.67 ... Summer... competed at the Olympic Trials (June 22) in Eugene, Ore., running 1:51.33 for a 32nd-place finish.

as a Sophomore (2011): Outdoor... USTFCCCA All-America First Team honoree in the 800-meters ... qualified for the 2012 Olympic trials and the USA Track and Field Championships after running a school-record time of 1:45.91 at the NCAA Championships ... the time shattered the previous mark (1:48.13), also set by Brown in 2011, by nearly three seconds ... ran 1:47.02 in the finals of the 800m at the NCAA Championships for a seventh-place finish ... ran 1:51.46 to win the MAC Championship in the 800m, earning All-MAC First Team honors ... also a member of two school record-setting relay teams at the Penn Relays ... ran anchor on the 4x800 team that clocked a time of 7:25.88 and the second leg of the DMR team that finished in 9:56.72 ... Indoor... MAC Champion in the 800m with a time of 1:51.77, earning First Team honors ... broke the school record three times in the 800m during the indoor season; set the current standard at the Akron Invitational with a time of 1:50.08 ... won the 800m four times during the indoor season (Akron Opener, Kent Dual, All-Ohio Championships, MAC Indoor) ... posted seven of Akron’s top-eight times in the 800m for the season.

as a Freshman (2010): Outdoor... Earned All-MAC Second Team honors in the 800m, finishing runner-up with a time of 1:50.30 ... posted Akron’s top seven times in the outdoor 800m ... Indoor... Placed runner-up in the 800m at the MAC Championships ... also ran the third leg on the runner-up 4x400 relay team (3:19.39) ... member of the record-setting 4x400 relay team, running the second leg, on the quartet that ran 3:13.33 at the Akron Invitational.

at John Adams HS: Placed third (1:51.91) at 2009 Ohio Div I state Outdoor ... member of the ninth-place 4x200 relay for Ohio Division I in 2009 ... won the 800m at the Northeast District Championships ... was also on the winning 4x200 relay team ... placed seventh in the 400 in the 2008 Ohio Div I State Outdoor.