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2022-23 Men's Indoor Track & Field Roster

Darral Freund

Michael Valdez

  • Position Sprints
  • Ht./Wt. - /
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Alamosa, Colo.
  • High School Alamosa

Biography

  • 2023 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, spring semester
  • 2022 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, spring semester
College Bests
INDOOR                 OUTDOOR             
200 23.88 100 23.26 (-0.5)
400 52.57 400 50.66

2023 Outdoor: Placed 19th in the 400 meters at the RMAC Championships at 50.84 seconds while also running on the sixth-place 4x400 relay at the April 28-30 event. ... Third in the 400 at the April 21 Mines Mini Meet, just missing a personal best at 50.73. ... Had another personal best in the 400, lowering his top time from 2022 by 3.10 seconds, with a 15th-place showing of 50.66 at the Kit Mayer Classic on April 8, good for 15th place. ... Ran personal bests in both the 400 (51.76) and 200 (23-26) at the CSU Pueblo Open on April 1, finishing 17th and 27th, respectively. ... Set personal bests in both the 400 (52.30) and 200 (23.62) at the season-opening CSU Pueblo Early Bird on March 17-18, finishing 11th and 14th, respectively.

2022-23 Indoor: Knocked another 0.85 off his personal best in the 400 and improved his top 200 by 0.39, finishing 14th in each event with times of 23.88 and 52.57, as the Feb. 17 Air Force Collegiate Open. ...Third in the 400 at the Mines Winter Classic on Feb. 4 at 54.66. ... Smashed indoor personal best in the 400 by 0.97 seconds with a fourth-place clocking of 53.42 and finished seventh in the 200 with a personal-best 24.27 at the Jan. 28 Mountain Lion Open. ... Ran a personal-best indoor 200 of 24.59 for seventh place at the Jan. 21 UCCS Invitational.

2022 Outdoor: Competed in three meets. ... Posted personal-best times of 53.56 seconds in the 400 meters and 24.32 in the 200, good for ninth and 14th, respectively, at the Kit Mayer Classic on April 20.

2021-22 Indoor: Competed in three meets. ... Made his MSU Denver debut at the UCCS Pre-Holiday Invitational and Multi on Dec. 11 and posted personal-best times of 54.39 seconds in the 400 meters and 24.65 in the 200, good for eighth and 19th, respectively.

High School: Ran on the state champion 4x400 relay as a sophomore in 2019 as well as the fifth-place 4x400 relay as a senior at the 2021 Class 3A State Championships. ... Also competed in the 2019 state championships in the 4x200 relay as well as the 400. ... Career bests include 51.23 in the 400 meters, 23.99 in the 200 and 12.17 in the 100. ... Won the 100 in a career-best 12.17 at the Lamar Savage Invitational on May 27, 2021. ... Ran a career-best 400 of 51.23 to finish second at the High Altitude Challenge on April 27, 2019. Also finished second in the 200 in that meet in 24.12.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    Sprints
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Sprints