Archie Pinder

Position:
Distance
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Chorleywood, England
High School:
Chesham Grammar School

2025-26
Outdoor: Earned first place in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:01.05 and eighth in the 800-meter run with a finish of 2:01.98 at the UMass Flagship Opener (3/28)... Placed sixth in the 3k at the UConn Dog Fight (4/4) with a time of 8:56.56... Placed 37th in the mile with a time of 4:25.01 at the Friar Invitational (4/10)... Finished ninth in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:01.31 at the UMass Commonwealth Invite (4/11)... Secured 10th in the 1500-meter run with a personal best time of 3:56.21 at the UMass Ken O’Brien Pre-Championship Invite (4/25)... Placed 52nd in the 1500-meter run with a finish of 4:02.52 at the Jay Carisella and Joe Donahue Coaches Invite (5/2).
Indoor: Placed 21st in the 600-meter run with a time of 1:26.50 and eighth in the 4x440 yard relay (Hardt, Kirn, Walsh, Pinder) with a time of 3:28.70 at the Beantown Challenge (1/17)... Earned sixth in the 4x800 meter relay (Walsh, Medeiros, Aschkenasy, Pinder) at the IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships (2/7-8) with a time of 7:50.24... Earned fourth in the 800-meter run with a personal best time of 1:59.39 at the IC4A/ECAC Open Events (2/8)... Finished 15th in the mile with a time of 4:25.64 and secured first in the 4x800 meter relay (Johnson, Walsh, Pinder, Broderick) with a time of 8:06.63 at the URI Coaches Invitational (2/14)... Placed 14th in the mile with a time of 4:20.68 and fourth in the 4x800 meter relay (Walsh, Pinder, Carew, Ciatto) with a time of 7:54.35.
Cross Country: Opened career with a 17th place finish in the 6k with a time of 19:52.1 at the Ken O’Brien Invitational (8/30)... Placed 112th in the 8k with a time of 26:20.2 at the NEICAAA Cross Country Championships (10/10)... Finished 78th in the 8k with a time of 27:00.3 at the MAC Cross Country Championships (11/1).

Before UMass: Won National cross country relay in 2021 … Was part of National cross country team championship 2022 with Chesham Grammar School … Helped Chesham Grammar capture regional schools cross country cup three times (2020,2022,2024) … Took second in English schools cross country cup in 2021… Was a two-time English schools Finalist in the 1,500m in 2021 and 2023 … Set school records in the 800m and 1,500m … PRs entering UMass: 800m - 1:54.08 … Also played soccer and was part of two district championships, a regional runner-up finish, three country cup semi-finalist performances and three Hertfordshire league titles.

Personal: Born Archie Marshall Pinder … Son of Heather and Nicholas … Has two siblings, Euan and Charlotte … Was a National enterprise challenge champion and Shakespeare house captain.