BYU Highlights
- Part of the 2024 NCAA National Championship winning team
- Led the Cougars to their first Big 12 title in 2024, finishing third individually
- Placed fifth in the 10,000-meters at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials (27:59.71)
- Five-time All-American with NCAA Championship finishes of 24th (2017), 13th (2020-21), eighth (2021), seventh (2022) and sixth (2024)
- Four-time All-WCC First Team
- Four-time top-3 finisher at WCC Championships, including the 2022 WCC individual title
- 2022 WCC Runner of the Year
- Two All-Mountain Region honors (2021, 2022)
- NCAA D1 Men's Cross Country National Athlete of the Week (2020)
- Two USTFCCCA All-Academic selections (2020, 2022)
- WCC Freshman of the Year (2017)
Personal
- Parents are Steve & Tiffany Clinger
- Wife, Morgan Bower, played libero for BYU women's volleyball
- Major: Business Management and MBA
- Missionary Service: Served a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sapporo, Japan (2019-20)
- Enjoys fishing and playing guitar
- LinkedIn: Casey Clinger
Before BYU
- Coached by Timo Mostert at American Fork High School
- The 2016 Gatorade Cross Country National Athlete of the Year
- Two-time Gatorade Utah Runner of the Year
- A four-time Nike Cross Nationals qualifier and a two-time champion, first male athlete in NXN history to win back-to-back individual titles
- An eight-time state champion in cross country, the 1600m and 3200m
- As a senior in 2016, posted times of 15:28.4 to win the Nike Cross Nationals Final and 14:42.9 to win the 5A Utah state title – a course and meet record
- As a junior in 2015, won the Nike Cross Nationals Final with a time of 15:03.2, the 5A Utah state title with a time of 14:52.8 and the Nike Cross Nationals Southwest Regional championships in 14:42
- Closed his high school cross country career with 15-straight victories at three miles and 5K
- In track, posted personal PRs of 1:52.92 in the 800m (ran at altitude), 4:02.90 in the mile and 8:44.70 in the 3200m
- Also recruited by Oregon