Career Bests (thru 2013 indoors):
800 Meters: 1:51.06
1,500: 3:49.58
Mile: 4:06.26i
At Stanford: Establishing himself even among an outstanding group of Stanford's middle-distance runners.
2013 Season: Indoors - Ran the first leg on Stanford's fourth-place distance medley relay team that ran 9:43.98 at the MPSF Championships ... placed 17th at MPSF's in the mile in 4:07.81 ... ran four meets, including three mile races, one 800, one 4x400, and one DMR.
2012 Season: Outdoors - Placed eighth in the Pac-12 in the 800 (1:51.69) ... recorded his personal best of 1:51.06 at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational in Berkeley, Calif. ... named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic team. Indoors - Placed 19th in the MPSF Championships in the mile, in 4:12.69 ... recorded his personal-best mile of 4:06.26 at the Flotrack Husky Classic in Seattle ... named to the MPSF All-Academic team.
2011 Season: Outdoors - Ran a personal best of 3:49.58 in the 1,500 at the Payton Jordan Invitational ... placed fourth at the Big Meet in the 800 with a time of 1:56.54 ... ran a season best in the 800 of 1:52.66 at Pepsi Invitational. Indoors - Redshirted.
Cross Country: Has run one race for Stanford, at the 2011 Stanford Invitational.
High School: All-County, All-State, and All-Federation honoree in 2009 ... a three-time Nassau County champion and MVP in 2009 ... Millrose qualifier during 2009 ... three-time All-County, three-time All-State, three-time All-Federation honors, was a five-time county champion, three-time MVP, and Millrose qualifier in 2008 ... two-time All-County and was a county champion in 2007 ... received All-Division, All-Conference, All-County, All-State, and was a two-time Freshman All-American in 2006 ... captained cross country, winter track, and spring track teams both junior and senior years ... part of the three-time Class AA Nassau County championship team ... team appeared three times at the New York state meet with a best showing of third place in 2009 ... team appeared once at the New York Federation meet ... set Schreiber school records in the 800 (1:54), 1,000 (2:32), 1,600 (4:13), mile (4:11), 3,200 (9:22), 5,000 (15:29), 4x400 (3:28), 4x800 (8:02), DMR (10:30), and mile medley (3:35).
Personal: Major is mechanical engineering ... son of Andrea Bertolotti and Kirsi Tikka ... has a younger brother, Paolo ... enjoys playing soccer and biking.