SPU: One-year letterwinner. ... USTFCCCA All-West Region indoor 60 hurdles (2025). ... All-GNAC indoor 60 hurdles (2025); All-GNAC outdoor 110 hurdles (2025). ... SPU Newcomer of the Year (2024-25 academic year).
Freshman (2025): INDOOR – Won the GNAC title in the 60 hurdles in a school-record time 8.01 – the sixth time he broke the record. ... In his very first college race, went 8.31 at the season-opening Spokane Invitational on Dec. 14, breaking the old mark of 8.33 set by David Njeri in 2020. ... Followed that with five more record-breaking races: 8.26 in the preliminaries on Jan. 17, then 8.21 in the finals on Jan. 18 at the UW Indoor Preview; 8.13 in the finals of the UW Invitational on Jan. 31 followed by an 8.10 in the GNAC preliminaries on Feb. 17 and then his 8.01 in the finals the next day. ... Ran all four meets, and that event was his exclusive focus.
OUTDOOR – Placed 3rd in the 110 hurdles at the GNAC Championships in a school-record time of 14.48. Also ran the third leg on the 6th-place 4x100 relay team. ... Posted a personal-best 14.45 in the 100 hurdles on April 26 at the Ralph Vernacchia Invitational. That officially made him the first Falcon ever to break 14.50, which was set in 1974 by Mark Stream. However, that wasn't able to count as the school record because of a +2.1 tailwind -- barely over the legal limit of 2.0. The previous week on April 19 at the CWU Wildcat Invitational in Ellensburg, Bell clocked exactly 14.50. The converted record (from the 1974 hand-held time) was 14.74 -- and Bell was faster than that all season. ... Ran 10 meets. ... While the 110s was his primary focus, also ran the 400 hurdles five times, with a personal best of 58.07 at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational on April 12.
Spanaway Lake High School: Won the Washington Class 3A (medium-large school) state championship in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.58 as a senior in 2024. That came just nine days after winning the West Central /Southwest District title in a personal-best 14.30 ... Ran that race 11 times during his senior year, winning nine. ... Placed 8th in the 300 hurdles in 40.98. Set a personal best of 39.29 in the preliminaries. ... Placed 5th in the 110s and 11th in the 300s at state as a junior in 2023. That same year, broke 15 seconds in the 110s for the first time with a 14.98 in a regular-season double dual against Bonney Lake and Stadium. ... Was 11th at state in both the 110s and 300s as a sophomore in 2022. ... While primarily a hurdler, also did the pole vault as a freshman and sophomore, with a personal-best of 9-6 as a as a sophomore.
Personal: Andrew Ryan Bell. ... Computer Science major.
Fun facts: Has done track for seven years prior to arriving at SPU. ...
Also has done wrestling. ...
Favorite kind of workout is anything involving hurdles. ...
If not for track, would focus on wrestling. ...
Favorite sport to watch in track. ...
Dumbest movie he has ever seen is "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." ...
Book he just couldn't put down was "Flowers for Algemon." ...
Favorite junk food is hot Cheetos. ...
Favorite healthy food is Caesar salled. ...
Last TV program binged was "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." ...
His dream car is a 1990 Mazda Miata. ...
Loves to shop for clothing, vintage items, and music. ...
Favorite team is the Seattle Seahawks. ...
Favoite athlete is American hurdler Grant Holloway. ...
Easiest subject in school is math. ...
Toughest subject is English. ...
His pre-meet ritual is having some honey before a race. ...
If he could invite anyone to dinner, it would be Alexander Hamilton "because he built the foundations of the banking system we use today." He would serve New York strip steak.k ...
If he could be any action hero, would be Spider-Man "because he is acrobatic and cracks jokes in the middle of anything. ...
His friends call him Andy. ...
In 10 years, plans to be doing back-end programming for a tech company.
INDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
60H: 8.01 (2/18/2025)
OUTDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
100: 11.59 (3/29/2025)
400: 58.76 (3/1/2025)
110H: 14.45 (4/26/2025)
400H: 58.07 (4/12/2025)
CAREER RESULTS
