University of North Carolina Athletics
Patterson Medal Winners
Parker Wolfe
- Induction:
- 2025
- Class:
- 2025
2025 – Parker Wolfe: Men’s Cross Country/Track & Field (Denver, Colo.)
Wolfe, the 2024 NCAA champion in the outdoor 5,000, was the first four-time men’s cross country All-America in UNC history and is the only individual to win ACC Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Performer-of-the-Year Awards in the same academic year (2023-24). He ran the second-fastest indoor 3,000 and eighth-fastest outdoor 5,000 in NCAA history.
He placed second in the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championship in the 3,000 and 5,000, becoming the first Tar Heel to medal in two events in the same year. He was a member of UNC’s distance medley relay that finished second in the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championship.
Wolfe won seven ACC titles (one cross country, two indoor and four outdoor), becoming the only individual to win the ACC 5,000 and 10,000 in consecutive seasons, and was a two-time ACC Meet MVP (2024 Indoor and 2025 Outdoor). He is the all-time ACC and ACC meet record holder in the outdoor 5,000.
A 11-time All-America (four cross country, five indoor and two outdoor), Wolfe was twice named ACC Cross Country Runner of the Year, a two-time USTFCCCA Southeast Region Cross Country Athlete of the Year, 2024 USTFCCCA Southeast Region Outdoor Athlete of the Year and won national track athlete-of-the-week honors four times.
He placed third in the 5,000 in a UNC-record time in the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials.
Fellow 2025 Patterson Medal winner and teammate Ethan Strand and Wolfe led Carolina to the 2023 ACC Cross Country championship (UNC’s first since 1985), the 2024 ACC Indoor title (its first in 28 years) and back-to-back top-10 finishes in the NCAA Indoor Championships (fifth in 2024 and tied for eighth in 2025). They are the only men’s track and field athletes to win ACC Indoor and Outdoor Athlete-of-the-Year awards in the same year and were the first Tar Heel semifinalists for the Bowerman Award, the USTFCCCA’s top award.
They were the first men’s track and field athletes to win Patterson Medals since hurdler Kenny Selmon in 2018 and the first distance runners since Tony Waldrop in 1974.
Wolfe, the 2024 NCAA champion in the outdoor 5,000, was the first four-time men’s cross country All-America in UNC history and is the only individual to win ACC Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Performer-of-the-Year Awards in the same academic year (2023-24). He ran the second-fastest indoor 3,000 and eighth-fastest outdoor 5,000 in NCAA history.
He placed second in the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championship in the 3,000 and 5,000, becoming the first Tar Heel to medal in two events in the same year. He was a member of UNC’s distance medley relay that finished second in the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championship.
Wolfe won seven ACC titles (one cross country, two indoor and four outdoor), becoming the only individual to win the ACC 5,000 and 10,000 in consecutive seasons, and was a two-time ACC Meet MVP (2024 Indoor and 2025 Outdoor). He is the all-time ACC and ACC meet record holder in the outdoor 5,000.
A 11-time All-America (four cross country, five indoor and two outdoor), Wolfe was twice named ACC Cross Country Runner of the Year, a two-time USTFCCCA Southeast Region Cross Country Athlete of the Year, 2024 USTFCCCA Southeast Region Outdoor Athlete of the Year and won national track athlete-of-the-week honors four times.
He placed third in the 5,000 in a UNC-record time in the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials.
Fellow 2025 Patterson Medal winner and teammate Ethan Strand and Wolfe led Carolina to the 2023 ACC Cross Country championship (UNC’s first since 1985), the 2024 ACC Indoor title (its first in 28 years) and back-to-back top-10 finishes in the NCAA Indoor Championships (fifth in 2024 and tied for eighth in 2025). They are the only men’s track and field athletes to win ACC Indoor and Outdoor Athlete-of-the-Year awards in the same year and were the first Tar Heel semifinalists for the Bowerman Award, the USTFCCCA’s top award.
They were the first men’s track and field athletes to win Patterson Medals since hurdler Kenny Selmon in 2018 and the first distance runners since Tony Waldrop in 1974.
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