Lucas van Waveren

Lucas is currently training with his club team AAV’36 and is primarily focusing on the sprint events. He used to play soccer for many years and has always been the fastest player in the field. His natural speed in combination with his winning mentality matches perfectly with track. 

After Lucas joined his track team about one year ago, he made lots of progress very quickly. Lucas improved his 200m PB with over a second and also cut down his 100m PB from 11,96s to 11,18s. With only one year of training under his belt he already competed at Nationals running both the 100m and 200m.  

Lucas’ major strengths are his explosiveness and passion for the sport. He isn’t only passionate about track, because he used to be like that playing soccer as well. This background of playing a team sport make Lucas a big team player and he likes a running relays a lot too. An area of improvement for him is to take better care of himself outside practice. He’s currently focusing to eat healthier and create a better sleeping pattern in order to recover faster so he can handle more training. We strongly believe there is still much room for improvement when he keeps developing himself athletically, especially considering Lucas only starten running track about 1 year ago. 

His current PBs are:

60m: 7.16s

100m: 10.85s (2023)

200m: 21.74s (2023)

400m: 53,84s

High Jump: 1.80m

Lucas height is 1.95m (6’5) and he weighs 75kg (165lbs).

His major goals in the USA are to keep improving as he is doing right now surrounded by a team of sprinters that can help him lift his athletic performance to the next level. He want to perform at his absolute best for his college track team and get the maximum out of his athletic career. 

Lucas finished high school in The Netherlands and is interested in doing a major in history, philosophy, psychology or physiology. For more information about his academics, please check out the details section below.