2023-24 Men's Track & Field Roster

Carol Chen
Tom Lynn

Cade Amborn

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Position Multi Events
  • Hometown Bangor, Wis.
  • High School Bangor
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Biography

Honors: 2020,  2021 and 2022 Academic All-Big Ten ... 2023 second-team Indoor All-American ... ranks fourth on the UW indoor performance list in the heptathlon
 
 Personal Bests
 Indoor Track  Outdoor Track
 60 meters  7.20  3/10/23  100 meters  11.22  4/14/23
 200 meters  23.60  1/22/21  200 meters  22.66  3/31/23
1000 meters  2:52.30  3/11/23  400 meters  51.19  4/13/23
 60-meter hurdles  8.09  2/25/23  1500 meters  5:03.98  4/14/23
 High Jump  6-9 (2.06m)  1/29/22  110-meter hurdles  14.60  4/13/23
 Pole Vault  16-0 3/4 (4.90m)  2/25/23  High Jump  6-9 1/2 (2.07m)  5/6/22
 Long Jump  23-8 3/4 (7.23m)  3/11/23  Pole Vault  15-1 (4.60m)  5/13/23
 Shot Put  48-2 (14.68m)  3/10/23  Long Jump  23-6 1/4 (7.17m)  5/12/23
 Heptathlon  5840 3/10-11/23  Shot Put  46-3 1/4 (14.10m)  5/12/23
 Discus  148-5 (45.25m)  5/5/23
 Javelin  189-1 (57.46m)  5/12-13/23
 Decathlon  7383  5/14/21

TFRRS Profile

2024 Outdoor Track:
 Placed 13th in the decathlon with 7,370 points after marks of 11.18 / 23-1 ¾ / 46-1 ½ / 6-6 / 52.15 / 14.73 / 144-7 / 14-9 / 178-5 / 5:21.15 at the Mt. Sac Relays (April 17-18)...finished ninth in the javelin with a distance of 181-1 and 16th in the discus at 136-2 at the Battle on the Bayou (March 29-30)...placed fifth in the javelin with a throw of 191-4 and 13th in the discus throw with a distance of 144-1 at the Keyth Talley Invitational (March 23)

2024 Indoor Track: Finished third in the heptathlon at the Big Ten Championships (Feb. 23-24) with marks of 7.25 /23 ¾ / 49 ¼ / 6-8 ¾ / 8.20 / 15-1 / 2:53.23...placed fourth in the pole vault with a clearance of 16-3 1/4 and 14th in the high jump with a leap of 6-4 1/4 at the Windy City Invitational (Feb. 9-10)...finished 11th in the 60 meter hurdle in 8.17 seconds at the Larry Wieczorek Invitational (Jan. 20)...finished fourth in the 60-meter hurdle at 8.18 at the Wisconsin Midwest Invitational (Jan. 13)

2023 Outdoor Track: Placed sixth in the decathlon with 7,304 points at the Big Ten Championships (May.12-14) ... finished ninth in the discus throwing a personal best of 148-5 and placed second in the javelin throwing a personal record of 189-1 at the Wisconsin Classic (May.5)...recorded a personal best in the decathlon with 7,383 points ... recorded personal bests in the 100 meters (11.22), 400 meters (51.19), the 110-meter hurdles (14.60), and the 1500 meters with a time of 5:03.98 at the 2023 Bryan Clay Invitational (Apr.13-15) ... recorded personal bests in the 200 meters (22.66), 400 meters (51.58), won the javelin with a throw of 182-10, and the 110-meter hurdles (14.68) at the Stanford Invitational (Mar.31-April 1)

2023 Indoor Track: Finished 11th in the heptathlon at the NCAA Championships (3/10-11/23), recorded personal bests in the 60 meters (7.20), long jump (23-8 3/4), shot put (48-2), and the 1,000 meters (2:52.30)...won silver in the men's heptathlon at the Big Ten Championships, recorded a personal best in the long jump (23-2 3/4),shot put(46-9 1/2),60-meter high hurdles(8.09), pole vault (16-0 3/4), and the 1000 meters (2:52.36) (2/24-25)...jumped a personal best of 15-10 in the pole vault at the Valentines Day Invite (Feb.17)...finished sixth in the 60-meter hurdles prelims at 8.10 and fifth in the pole vault with a clearance of 14-10 3/4 at the Windy City Invite (Feb.10-11) ... finished second recording a personal best of 5,478 points in the heptathlon...ran a personal best in the 60 meters (7.21)...third in the long jump(22-10)...won the heptathlon shot put with a personal best throw (46-5 1/4) ... third in the high jump(6-4)...second in the 60-meter hurdles (8.13)...second in the pole vault (15-0)...seventh in the 1000 meters (3:00.77) at the Illini Challenge (Jan.27-28)...finished ninth in the 60-meter hurdles prelims with a time of 8.24 at the Larry Wieczorek Invite (Jan.20-21)...ran a personal best in the 60-meter hurdles prelims at 8.10 and finished fifth in the finals at 8.15 at the Wisconsin Badgers Midwest Invite (Jan. 14)

2022 Outdoor Track: Won the high jump at the Wisconsin Classic (May 6) with a personal best clearance of 6-9 1/2 ... competed in seven decathlon events at the Jim Click Shootout (April 8-9), finishing second in the high jump (6-8 3/4), before not finishing the event ... placed seventh in the long jump with a personal best of 22-11, had a personal best in the discus with a toss of 135-0, finished second in the javelin throw at 165-3, and placed 13th in the 110-meter hurdles in 14.73 at the Texas Bobcat Invite (Mar.24-26)... won the high jump at the Wisconsin Classic with a jump of 6-9 1/2 (May 6)... placed 11th in the high jump with a jump of 6-8 3/4  at the Big Ten Championships (May 13-15)

2022 Indoor Track: Placed eighth in the heptathlon with a personal best score of 5,369 points at the Big Ten Championships (Feb. 25-26) ... ran a personal best time in the heptathlon 1,000 meters (2:55.14) and heptathlon 60-meter hurdles (8.33) ... finished fourth in the pole vault with a personal best clearance of 15-5 at the Windy City Invitational (Feb.11) ... also placed 11th in the 60-meter hurdles (8.39) and 20th in the 60 meters (7.52) at the Windy City ... placed second in the heptathlon with a score of 5,171 and ran a personal best time in the 60 meters with a time of 7.36 seconds and a personal best height of 6-9 in the high jump at the Indiana Relays (Jan. 28)

2021 Outdoor: Finished 11th in the decathlon at the Big Ten Championships (May 14-16) with 6,884 points ... set six personal bests during the two-day competition -- 100 meters  (11.55), 400 meters (52.44), 110-meter hurdles (14.91), discus (118-9), pole vault (14-9), and the 1500 meters (5:11.09) ... won the 110-meters high hurdles (15.43) and finished third in the high jump with a personal best of 6-6 1/4 and third on the pole vault at 13-8 1/2 at the Wisconsin B1G Invitational ( May 8) ... recorded a personal best of 42-3 1/2 in the decathlon shot put at the Husker Big 10 Invite (April 16) ... recorded a personal best in the javelin throw (166-4) at the 2021 B1G North Florida Invitational (April 2-3)

2021 Indoor: Placed 11th in the heptathlon at the Big Ten Championships (Feb. 25-26) with 4,985 points, recording personal bests in the 60 meters (7.38) and the 60-meter hurdles (8.36) ... placed third in the heptathlon with 4,826 points at the Illini Big Ten Multi (Jan. 29-30) ...  placed ninth in a personal best of 23.60 in the 200 meters, finished seventh in the long jump with a personal best of 22-93 3/4 and took 17th in the 60-meters high hurdles (9.07) at the Larry Wieczorek Invitational (Jan.22-23) ... finished ninth in the 60-meters  hurdles (9.08) at the Badger Icebreaker (Jan. 16)

2020 Outdoor: Season canceled due to COVID-19

2020 Indoor: Scored a personal best of 5,037 points in the heptathlon at the Big Ten Championships (Feb. 28-29), recording five top-10 event finishes ... placed 17th in the 60 meter hurdles in 8.66 and took 14th in the long jump with a mark of 21-8 1/4 at the Larry Wieczorek Invitational (Jan. 18) ... placed fifth in the 60-meter hurdles in 8.50 and took fourth in the high jump, clearing 6-0 3/4 at the Jack Jennett Open (Jan. 24) ...finished 23rd in the long jump (20-7) and 19th in the 60-meter hurdles (8.79 at the Music City Challenge (Feb. 14-15)

2019 Outdoor: Competed unattached and placed 13th in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.45 and took fourth in the long jump at 21-10 1/4 at the Wisconsin Alumni Classic (May 3)

2019 Indoor: Competing unattached and took ninth in the long jump with a leap of 20-7 at the Red & White Classic (Feb. 15)

High school, Conference and sectional champion in the high jump as a senior … placed fifth in the high jump at the indoor state meet and third in the high jump at the outdoor state meet his senior year … helped the 4x100-meter relay to a fourth-place finish and the 4x200-meter relay to a fifth-place finish at the state meet … high jump champion at the 2018 Senior All-Star Spotlight meet … also played football and basketball … won state championships in football as a sophomore and senior and in basketball as a sophomore … earned honorable mention all-conference honors in basketball and football … named to the WCFA 2017 Academic All-State Team … high school coaches were Kevin and Roxanne Kravik

Personal: Parents are Paul and Sheryl Amborn … has two siblings, Heather and Cole … born June 23 ... major is kinesiology

All-American Honors (1)
2023 - Indoor 
Heptathlon: 11th (5,840)

All-Big Ten Honors (1)
2023 - Indoor
Heptathlon: 2nd (5,818)

At the NCAA Championships
2023 - Indoor 
Heptathlon: 11th (5,840)

At the Big Ten Championships
2024 - Indoor 
Heptathlon: 3rd (5,707)

2023 - Outdoor
Decathlon: 6th (7,304)

2023 - Indoor
Heptathlon: 2nd (5,818)

2022 - Indoor
Heptathlon: 8th (5,369)

2021 - Outdoor
Decathlon: 11th (6,884)

2021 - Indoor
Heptathlon: 11th (4,985)

Why Wisconsin?

“I chose Wisconsin because of their stellar academics and athletics. Just being a Badger is such an amazing feeling.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

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  • 2019-20Redshirt Freshman

    Multi Events
  • 2020-21Redshirt Sophomore

    Multi Events
  • 2021-22Redshirt Junior

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  • 2022-23Redshirt Senior

    Multi Events
  • 2023-24Graduate Student

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