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Track & Field

Player Bio: Durell Coleman

  Durell Coleman
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Rockwall, TX
High School:
Rockwall
Position:
Sprints/High Jumps

Collegiate Career Bests:
200 Meters 22.37
400 Meters 48.32
400-Meter Hurdles 50.24
High Jump 6-7 ½ (2.02m)i

2010 Season (Senior): Qualified for the NCAA National Championship in the 400 meter hurdles after placing 7th at the NCAA West Preliminary Round ... placed 14th in the NCAA National Championships, 4th at the Pac-Ten championship and second at the Big Meet in the 400-meter hurdles ... ran a career best time of 50.24 in the 400 meter hurdles placing him second on the Stanford All-time list ... voted co-team captain for the 2009-2010 season and selected as one of Stanford Track and Field's Most Improved Athletes of the Year.

2009 Season (Junior): Ran a career-best time of 52.45 at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational in the 400-meter hurdles to earn his first trip to the NCAA West Regional ... tied for second in the high jump and placed fourth in the 400 hurdles at the Big Meet ... ran the anchor of the 4x400-meter team that placed sixth at the Pac-10 Championships ... also competed in the prelims of the 400 hurdles at the Pac-10 Championships ... ran the anchor leg of the 4x400 relay team that placed fourth at the MPSF Indoor Championships.

2008 Season (Sophomore): Finished 16th at the Pac-10 Championships in the 400-meter hurdles ... ran a career-best time of 48.32 in the 400 meters at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational ... indoors, finished 15th in the 400 meters and 21st in the 200 meters at the MPSF Championships.

2007 Season (Freshman): Finished 12th in the 400-meter dash at the Pac-10 Championships ... ran a career-best 22.69 in the 200 meters at the Stanford Invitational ... posted a collegiate career-best 48.35 in the 400 meters at the Big Meet, and was the high scorer of the meet as well ... notched a collegiate career-best mark of 6-7 (2.01m) in the high jump at the quad meet ... a provisional qualifier for the NCAA Championships as a member of the distance medley relay team ... placed fourth in the high jump with a career-best indoor mark of 6-7 ½ (2.02m) at the MPSF Indoor Championships ... finished ninth in the 400 meters at the MPSF Indoor Championships with a career best 49.03.

High School: Four-time TAAF state high jump champion ... finished fourth in the high jump at the Texas District 12-5A State Track and Field Championships, recording the second-highest jump in school history at 6-9 ... named the 2002 and 2005 TAAF Regional Athlete of the Year ... holds the school record in the 400 meters (47.9) and a member of the school-record mile relay ... also a three-year letterwinner in basketball ... honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic in 2007.

Cardinal Catalogue: Mechanical engineering major ... parents are David and Annette Coleman ... honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic in 2007.