2015-16 Track & Field Roster

Anderson Charles

  • Position Distance
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown West Palm Beach, Fla.
  • High School John I. Leonard HS

Biography

2015 Third-Team All-Conference: Outdoor 800m

2016-17
  • Finished 6th in the 8k at the Florida Tech Invitational with a time of 27:54.60
  • Recorded his season best 8k time of 27:39.9 at the American Athletic Conference Championship, finishing 59th overall. 
2015-16

Cross Country 

  • Recorded his season best 8k time of 26:42.77 at the American Athletic Conference Championship, finishing 57th overall.

Indoor 

  • Broke the school-record in the 800m run at the American Indoor Championships (2/29) with a time of 1:50.30 and finished fourth.
  • Member of the 4x400m relay team that finished seventh at the American Indoor Championships (2/29) in a time of 3:22.21.

Outdoor 

  • Placed sixth in the 800m run at the American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships (5/15) in a time of 1:51.52. 
  • Ran a season-best 800m time of 1:50.57 at the Seminole Invitational (4/15).

2015

Outdoor

  • Was a third-team all-conference runner in the 800m run with a time of 1:50.89.
  • Ran a team-best 800m time of 1:50.31 in the prelims of the American Outdoor Championships (5/16)
  • Ran a team-best 1,500m time of 3:57.08 at the UCF Invitational (3/27)
  • Member of the 4x400m relay team that finished fifth at the American Outdoor Championships with a team-best time of 3:11.14


Indoor

  • Ran the second-fastest time in school history of 1:52.28 in the 800 meters at the American Indoor Championships (2/27) and placed sixth
  • Was a member of the 4x400 meter relay team that placed fifth at the American Indoor Championships (2/27) 

South Plains: Attended South Plains College from 2012-2014

High School: Graduated in 2012 … Primarily a middle distance runner, Anderson attained personal best times of 1:52.93 (800M) and 4:17.64 (1600M) … Named Athlete of the Year at Leonard HS in 2012 … In 2011 and 2012 was named Palm Beach Post and Sun Sentinel Palm Beach County cross country and track Athlete of the Year.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Junior

    Distance
  • 2015-16Senior

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