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2020-21 Men's Track & Field Roster

Tim O'Dowd

Theo Chambers

  • Position Sprints
  • Indoor Elig. R-Sr.
  • Outdoor Elig. R-Sr.
  • Hometown McLean, Va.
  • High School Georgetown Prep

Biography

Indoor Mark Date
60m 7.28 1/19/18
200m 21.83 2/21/20
400m 48.54 2/21/20
500m 1:04.64 12/7/19
Outdoor Mark Date
100m 10.98 H.S.
200m 21.53 5/3/19
400m 48.33 5/4/19

2019-20
Indoor: Led W&M with three school-record performances ... IC4A qualifier in both the 200m and the 400m ... Broke his first school record in the 200m at Penn State early February ... Ran 21.92, becoming the first Tribe athlete to run under 22 seconds indoors ... Two weeks later, won the 200m and the 400m at Navy, both with school-record times ... Won the 200m in 21.83 seconds ... Won the 400m in 48.54 seconds, the fastest not only metric performance but also faster than any converted 440y dash ... At the IC4A Championships, finished 13th in the 400m in 48.61, and 16th in the 200m in 21.84 seconds ... Also ran the 500m twice, winning both events ... Best time was 1:04.64 in the season opener at Navy in December ... Led-off the 4x400m relay at VMI to a season-fast time and IC4A qualifying time of 3:19.04.
Outdoor: Season cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

2018-19
Indoor: Earned All-East honors as part of W&M's fifth-place 4x400m relay at the IC4A Championships ... Helped break the school record in 3:13.24 ... Individually, concentrated mostly on the 400m ... Ran a lifetime-best 50.14 at Navy in February ... Ran the 200m once, sprinting a lifetime-best 22.69 at Penn State ... Ran on each of the Tribe's five fastest 4x400m relays during the season.
Outdoor: CAA Champion as part of the Tribe's 4x400m relay ... Also earned All-CAA honors after finishing second in the 200m dash ... First Tribe sprinter to be named all-conference in the 200m since 1985 ... Ran a lifetime-best 21.53 in the prelims before running 21.73 in the finals ... Those were two of three sub-22 races on the year ... Also ran the 400m at the conference meet, finishing fourth overall in a lifetime-best 48.33 ... Ran on each of W&M's four 4x400m relays during the year, including a fifth-place finish at the Colonial Relays ... CAA Academic Honor Roll for having a GPA over 3.0.

2017-18
Indoor: Competed twice after walking on to the team ... Ran the 60m in 7.28 at VMI in late January ... Also jumped 5.17m (16-11.5) in the long jump in that meet ... One week later, ran the 60m at Liberty.
Outdoor: Competed just once due to injury ... Ran the 100m dash in 11.89 at the Stimson Memorial Quad Meet ... Also anchored W&M's 4x100m at the meet to 42.44, the fastest time for the Tribe since 1990 and an IC4A qualifier.

2016-17
Indoor: Did not compete.
Outdoor: Did not compete.

Prep
Ran on Georgetown Prep's 4x400m relay at the Penn Relays as a senior ... Runner-up in his first-ever track race ... Joined the indoor track team as a senior to train for lacrosse, and ended up staying with the team for the rest of the year ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Member of the Jazz Band.

Personal
Son of Theodore and Gloria Chambers ... Father played lacrosse at Hampden-Sydney, where he went from walk-on to All-American ... Grandfather also played lacrosse, earning All-American honors for the Naval Academy ... Uncle, Jay, played football at East Carolina ... Enjoys scuba diving, hiking, and hanging out with friends ... Graduated in 2020 with dual degrees in applied mathematics and philosophy.

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Multi
  • 2018-19Junior

    Multi
  • 2019-20Senior

    Sprints
  • 2020-21Graduate Student

    Sprints