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2018 Cross Country Roster

Drew Whited

  • Class Redshirt Freshman
  • Hometown East Wenatchee, Wash.
  • Previous School(s) Eastmont HS '16

Biography

Career Bests:
Indoor:
400m, 53.47 | 600m, 1:27.27 | 800m, 2:03.51
Outdoor: 800m, 1:58.70 

2018-19 Track and Field: Outdoors: Named to the Big Sky All-Academic team. Whited set a personal best in the mile at the Spokane Memorial Meet with a time of 4:31.11. He earned a third place finish in the 1,500 meters at the Oregon State High Performance Meet with a personal best time of 4:06.82.
Indoors: Named to the Big Sky All-Academic team.

2018 Cross Country: Named to the Big Sky All-Academic team. Competed in four meets for the Eagles, including the Clash of the Inland Northwest Invitational when he placed 80th with a 5.75K time of 20:23.1.

2017-18 Track and Field: Outdoor: He earned sixth-place in the 800 meters with a personal-best time of 1:58.70 time at the Buc Scoring Meet. At the Pelluer Invitational, Whited took a fourth-place finish in the 800, and he ran with the 4x800-meter relay team that took third-place. Indoor: Named to the Big Sky All-Academic team. Earned a fifth-place finish in the 600 meters with a personal best of 1:27.27 at the Candy Cane meet. He also set a best at the Idaho Dual in the 400 meters with a time of 53.47.0.

High School: Graduated from Eastmont HS in 2017. In cross country, he earned 13th place in the 4A District 6 Championships in the 3 mile during his senior year with a time of 16:38.1. His personal best in the 3 mile is 16:10.4. He also competed in the 4A WIAA State Cross Country Championships during his senior season. Earned four varsity track letters throughout high school. He was named to the first team all-league and third place at state for the 4x400 relay in his senior year. He was also named to the second team all-league for track in 2017 for his performance in the 800-meter with a personal record of 1:58.77. Whited was also named to the Columbia Basin Big-9 Scholar athlete for track from 2014-17. As a senior at Eastmont in 2017, Whited was second in the 800 meters at the Big 9 District Championships with a personal best time of 1:58.77, and advanced to the State 4A Championships where he posted a time of 2:04.13 in the prelims. Whited’s personal best times in the 400 meters and the 1,600 meters came at the Big 9 District Championships where he had times of 52.27 to earn fourth in the 400 and 4:37.31 to finish ninth in the 1,600. Whited was a part of the school’s 4x400 relay team which took third place with a time of 3:24.08 at the State 4A Championships (EWU teammate Quintin Porterfield also on relay). As a freshman, he posted a time of 11:38.02 in the 3,200 meters and a time of 7:21.0 in the steeplechase (two kilometers), which were both personal best times.