TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- All-American
- USTFCCCA All-Academic (2019)
- Two-time MPSF All-Academic (2018, 2019)
- Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention (2018)
Personal Records (thru 2020)
- 800: 1:50.20
- Mile: 4:08.37i
- 1,500: 3:55.69
- 1,000: 2:24.05i
As a Senior (2019-20)
Outdoors
- Season canceled
Indoors
- Did not compete
Cross Country
- Did not compete
As a Junior (2018-19)
Outdoors
- 24th in the Pac-12 Championships in the 800
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
Indoors
- Third leg on NCAA second-place distance medley relay
- First-team All-America (DMR)
- Third leg on MPSF-winning distance medley relay
- Moved to No. 9 on Stanford all-time list in the distance medley relay
- MPSF All-Academic
Cross Country
- Did not compete.
As a Sophomore (2017-18)
Outdoors
- Ran season best 800 of 1:53.41 at the Big Meet
- Made collegiate outdoor debut at Hornet Invitational, placing 10th in the 800
- Ran season-best 1,500 of 3:55.69 at the Cardinal Classic
- Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
Indoors
- MPSF All-Academic team
Cross Country
- Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
- Stanford's No. 9 runner at Pac-12 Championships, placing 42nd for winning team
- Made collegiate cross country debut at the USD Invitational, placing second as team ran in a pack
- Team No. 7 at Dellinger Invitational
As a Freshman (2016-17)
Outdoors
- Did not compete
Indoors
- Won his mile section at the MPSF Championships, running a personal best 4:08.37 to place 13th overall
- Made collegiate debut by finishing second in the 1,000 at the UW Indoor Preview, in 2:24.05
- Ran the opening leg of the Cardinal distance medley relay at the Penn State National, with the team placing second
Cross Country
- Raced at the Stanford Invitational while competing unattached
- Placed 29th in 24:19.8
Prior to Stanford
- White at Great Oak High School, became just the second male since 1923 to win California state titles in the 800m/880y and 1,600m/mile at the same meet.
- The task is especially difficult considering there are prelims in both events the day before the finals, and California has no enrollment divisions
- The temperature was over 100 degrees each day
- Helped lead Great Oak of Temecula to victory at the Nike Cross Nationals, earning the school's first national championship
- Named Riverside Press-Enterprise Boys Athlete of the Year over sprinter Michael Norman
- Placed third in the 800 at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals, running a personal best 1:50.20
- Won the mile at the 2016 indoor Milrose Games, passing four runners in the final 50 meters at The Armory in Manhattan, and edged a celebrating opponent at the tape, winning in 4:09.87 on national television
- Ran the fourth-fastest 1,600 in the nation in 2016 with his personal best 4:04.01 to win the Southern Section Masters Meet
- Member of 4x1,600 relay that set national records in consecutive weeks, at Arcadia and Mt. SAC Relays
- Ran 1:49.3 split in anchoring 4x800 team to victory at New Balance Nationals
- Four-time CIF Southern Section Division I champion, winning both the 800 and 1,600 in 2015 and 2016
- Seventh at the 2015 California Division I cross country championships as the No. 3 runner for champion Great Oak
- Won Southwestern League 800 title all four years
- Ran 9:00.28 in the 3,200 at the 2016 Arcadia Invitational
Personal
- Parents are Frank and Florina Cortes.
- Has a younger sister, Fatima, and younger twin brothers, Mark and Ramses.
Career Results:
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2019-20 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2018-19 | Outdoors (3) | 800 | 1:53.58 | 24 (1:53.58) | -- | -- |
| 1,500 | 3:57.50 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (4) | 1,000 | 2:25.60 | -- | -- | -- | |
| DMR | 9:29.35 | 1 (9:31.39) | -- | 2 (9:31.70) | ||
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2017-18 | Outdoors (5) | 800 | 1:53.41 | -- | -- | -- |
| 1,500 | 3:55.69 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (3) | Mile | 4:13.51 | 24 (4:20.80) | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (4) | 8K | 24:16.8 | 42 (24:36.5) | -- | -- | |
| 2016-17 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (4) | Mile | 4:08.37 | 13 (4:08.37) | -- | -- | |
| 800 | 1:51.86 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1,000 | 2:24.05 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 9:34.15 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:22.30 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |