2018 Track and Field Roster
Biography
2018 Long Jump All C-USA Third Team
2018 C-USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
2018 INDOOR: Finished the season with a personal best of 7.32m (24-0.25) in the long jump to secure a bronze medal at the Conference USA Indoor Track and Field Championships … opened the season with a bronze medal in the 4x400m relay with a time of 3:16.88 at the Commodore invitational … also posted a fourth and fifth place finish in the triple jump and long jump respectively at the meet … achieved a personal best in the 200m with a time of 21.97 and a bronze medal finish in the triple jump with a mark of 14.50m (47-7) at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational … grabbed bronze at the New Mexico Classic in the 4x400m relay with a readout of 3:16.14.
2017 OUTDOOR: Notched a personal-best leap of 14.95m at the Conference USA Championships in the triple jump … opened season with a third-place finish in the triple jump with a wind-aided mark of 14.83m at the UTEP Springtime … recorded a personal best of 6.99m in the long jump posted at the C-USA Championships … member of the 4x400m relay team that took silver at the conference meet with a time of 3:06.94 … part of the 4x100m relay team that claimed first at the Brutus Hamilton with a season-best time of 40.42 … notched a third-place finish at the UTEP Springtime in the 4x100m relay … recorded a fourth-place finish at the C-USA Championships in the 4x100m relay.
2017 INDOOR: Finished season with a personal-best leap of 7.01m (23-00.00) in the long jump at the C-USA Championships … notched a personal best of 14.80m in the triple jump at the New Mexico Classic … posted an eighth-place finish in the long jump with a mark of 7.00m at the Commodore Invitational … set a sixth-place finish in the triple jump with a leap of 14.62m at the Commodore Invitational..
PRIOR TO UTEP: Won the District 1-6A Championship in the triple jump (14.30m) … placed second in the long jump (6.70m) while also setting a personal best in the triple jump (14.37).
PERSONAL: Son of Rocky and Danielle Ortega ... has one sibling ... cosmetology major.
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