Sophomore Year (2009-10):Cross Country: Improved personal bests for 6K to 19:07 and 8K to 26:26 ...placed among top ten in three meets with best finish being 5th at Elon Invitational...placed 35th at SoCon XC Championship and 127th at NCAA Southeast Regionals with 33:25 for 10K. . . Indoor track: opened the 2010 season with a personal best of 15:36 for 5,000 meters at East Tennessee State University. Improved personal best in 5,000 with a 15:35.65 at Clemson Tiger Paw Invitational and doubled back the next day with a personal best of 8:50.42 at 3,000 meters. . . Outdoor track: redshirt season.

Freshman year (2008-09): Ran 20:44 for 6K and 29:07 for 8K in cross country...Indoors ran personal best of 16:15 for 5,000 and lowered that to 16:03 Outdoors with 7th place finish at Furman Invitational.

High School: 2007 Oregon Junior Olympic Cross Country champion...earned first-team All-District honors in cross country as a senior and second team honors as a junior...ran on 2006 Junior Olympic Oregon Cross Country team that placed second nationally...ran a time of 16:43 at Nike Pre-Nationals...served as team captain for the Lake Oswego cross country team as a senior, where he was coached by Oregon's legendary Bob Williams ...National Merit Scholar semi-finalist.

Personal: Christopher Michael Caldwell was born on March 7, 1990 in Atlanta, GA....son of Michael and Laura Caldwell...mother Laura is a former 800m record holder at Florida State University, multiple Olympic Trials Qualifier in the Marathon and three time USA Masters champion...father Michael competed in cross country and track at Furman from 1968-1971 and served as co-captain of the cross country team in 1971...major is undecided.

Caldwell Career Results