At the 1969 state meet Waldrop ran 1:53.9 to smash by 2.3 seconds the existing 880-yard state meet record of 1:56.2 that had stood for 14 years.

Rules at the time prohibited running the 880/mile double. Waldrop won the mile (time not available) in the 1-A/2-A classification as a senior. His best mile that year was 4:18.0

At the University of North Carolina as a Morehead Scholar Waldrop, ran 1:50.2 (880y) as a freshman and 1:48.3 as a sophomore. His junior year he ran the mile in 3:57.3 and as a senior 3:53.2 -- in winning at the Penn Relays.

While at Carolina, Waldrop won six ACC titles, ran an unprecedented 11 consecutive sub-four minute miles, won NCAA titles in the indoor 1000 yards and mile, and set an indoor world record of 3:55.0

He was voted ACC Athlete of the Year for 1974, winning over national basketball player of the year David Thompson (State), and Maryland's John Lucas.

Waldrop made the cover of Track and Field News twice in 1974.

Waldrop received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later became a professor in molecular and integrative physiology, and then the vice chancellor for research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies at UNC.

Waldrop is a member of the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame

More biographical information is available in this June 2001 article on TarHeelBlue.com: Tony Waldrop Returns to Carolina as Vice Chancellor

Article on Waldrop - LetsRun.com

A good interview of Waldrop (by Joan Nesbit, former E. Mecklenburg runner and 1996 Olympian).