2020 Track & Field Roster

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Isaac Cortes

  • Position Middle Distance
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Temecula, Calif.
  • High School Great Oak
  • Major Product Design

Biography

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) -- -- -- -- --

Historical Player Information

  • 2017Freshman

    Middle distance

  • 2018Sophomore

    Middle distance

  • 2019Junior

    Middle Distance

  • 2020Senior

    Middle Distance