Jadon Bartholomew - Men's Track & Field - Arkansas Razorbacks

Jadon Bartholomew

RS Jr./Sr. | 6-1 | Mid-Distance | Springdale, Arkansas | Har-Ber HS

Career Highlights

  • NCAA First-Team All-America | Indoor (1)

Junior (2023)
Outdoor: Produced season best of 1:52.58 in 800m to place 10 at John McDonnell Invitational … In Mt. SAC Relays, posted a time of 1:52.95 … Clocked 1:53.85 at Arkansas Twilight to place 12th.

Indoor: Opened season running 1:19.52 in 600m to finish seventh at Arkansas Invitational … Posted a 1:54.22 to place 13th at Arkansas Qualifier.

Sophomore (2022)
Outdoor: Improved career best in 800m to 1:49.17, placing third in section of Mt. SAC Relays … Raced in SEC Outdoor prelims, posting time of 1:51.96 … Competed in opening round of NCAA West Preliminary with a time of 1:51.06 … Established PR of 48.93 in 400m to place seventh in John McDonnell Invitational … Second leg on third place 4 x 800 at Texas Relays, splitting 1:51.80 as Arkansas ran 7:26.84 … Ran opening leg (1:53.00) of 4 x 800 relay as Arkansas finished seventh in Penn Relays (7:26.53).

Indoor: Set a pair of career best times in 800m, first with a 1:50.98 at Razorback Invitational, then 1:49.22 for fifth place in Tyson Invitational … Placed fifth (1:49.49) at Arkansas Qualifier … Competed in prelims of SEC Indoor (1:52.53) … Set a PR of 1:18.36 to win 600m at Arkansas Invitational.

Freshman (2021)
Outdoor: Opened outdoor campaign with a then career best of 1:53.17 in Oregon’s Hayward Premiere … Improved to 1:52.71 at John McDonnell Invitational … Posted a PR of 1:50.67 as runner-up in LSU Invitational … Finished fifth in Arkansas Twilight (1:52.21) … Also set an outdoor career best of 49.14 in 400m at Florida’s Jones Memorial … Split 48.77 as third leg of 4×400 relay with Arkansas placing second at Hayward Premeire.

Indoor: Earned All-America honor as member of sixth-place distance medley relay (9:33.65) at NCAA Championships, supplying split of 1:49.98 on third leg … Also third leg (1:51.12) of DMR at SEC Championships as Arkansas placed seventh (9:43.38) … Razorbacks runner-up in DMR (9:34.61) at Tyson Invitational with third-leg split of 1:52.41 from Bartholomew … Member of fifth-place 4×400 at SEC Championships, splitting 48.32 on opening leg … Ran third leg on three other occasions, splitting 47.90 during victory at Arkansas Inv. (3:13.20), then 47.49 on winning effort at Arkansas Qualifier (3:08.87), and a 47.95 on runner-up finish in Tyson Invitational (3:07.26) …

Won 600m in 1:18.72 during debut in Arkansas Invitational … Placed third at 800m in a then PR of 1:51.72 at Wooo Pig Classic … Improved to career best of 1:51.56 in placing sixth at Razorback Invitational … Also set a career best at 400m with a 48.15 to finish sixth at Arkansas Qualifier.

High School
2019 Arkansas 6A State Champion in the 400-meters; a member of Har-Ber’s State Championship 4×800-meter relay and bronze medalist 4×400-meter relay team… Also won 6A West Conference Championships in the 400-meters in 2019… Ran on Har-Ber’s state championship bronze medal cross country team, placing top-30 at the state cross country championship. In 2018, won state titles in both the 4×400-meter and 4×800-meter relays outdoors as well as the 4×800-meter relay indoors…Competed in the USATF Hersey National Junior Olympics in Sacramento, California earning a third-place finish in the 800-meters with a life-time best of 1:55.44 earning a bronze medal and All-American status.

Jadon Bartholomew | Career Stats

Career best marks

Indoor

400m | 48.15

600m | 1:18.36

800m | 1:49.22

Outdoor

400m | 48.93

800m | 1:49.17