Finance major … A latecomer to the sport who showed consistent improvement in the sprint and relay events throughout his college career, earning NCAA Division II All-America status as a senior … Has become a key member of the Eagles’ relay teams, earning NCCAA All-America honors as a member of three different quartets as a sophomore and helping break a 50-year-old school record as a junior … Has collegiate-best times of 49.72 seconds in the 400 meters, 35.98 seconds in the 300 meters, 22.02 seconds in the 200 meters and 7.10 seconds in the 60 meters … 2017: NCAA Division II All-America selection in the indoor 4x400-meter relay … All-South Central Region selection in the indoor 4x400 relay … Great American Conference champion and All-GAC first-team selection in the outdoor 4x400 relay and second-team All-GAC pick in the 400 meters … Named as an All-Academic individual for track by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association … Named as a Crafton Tull/Great American Conference Distinguished Scholar … Named to the Heartland Conference academic Honor Roll’s President’s List (spring semester) … Named to the Great American Conference Academic All-Conference list for track and field … Recipient of Division II Athletic Directors Association Academic Achievement Award … During indoor season, ran at 200 meters and 300 meters … In his lone 300-meter race, finished in 35.98 seconds in Pittsburg State’s Crimson and Gold Invitational … Ran a career-best indoor 200 time of 22.61 seconds in Pittsburg State’s Gorilla Classic … Along with relay teammates Sawyer Pehkonen, Landon Huslig and Jalen Brown, broke the OC indoor 4x400 record with a time of 3:13.10 in the Arkansas Qualifier, securing the Eagles’ spot in the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships and earning them All-South Central Region honors … At the national meet in Birmingham, Ala., that quartet again broke the school record, running 3:12.73 to finish sixth and earn All-America honors … During outdoor season, ran at 200 meters and 400 meters … Ran a wind-aided career-best 200 time of 22.02 seconds at the Friends Invitational … At the same meet, matched his career-best 400 time of 49.72 seconds … At the GAC Championships in Searcy, Ark., teamed with Pehkonen, Huslig and Brown to win the 4x400 relay title in season-best 3:14.18, earning All-GAC first-team honors … Finished sixth in 49.83 seconds to earn All-GAC second-team honors in the 400 meters … 2016: Earned All-South Central Region honors in the 4x400-meter relay (along with teammates Ryan Lutterloh, Landon Huslig and Sawyer Pehkonen) during the indoor season after breaking OC’s 50-year-old record in the event … Named as an All-Academic individual by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association after the outdoor season … Recipient of Division II Athletic Directors Association Academic Achievement Award … Named to the Great American Conference Academic All-Conference list for track and field … During indoor season, competed primarily in the 400 meters, 200 meters and 60 meters, as well as in relays … Best open 400 time was 50.16 seconds in the Nebraska Tune-Up … Posted career-best 200 time of 22.69 seconds in the Oklahoma Baptist Indoor-Outdoor Invitational … Also posted best 60-meter time of 7.10 seconds in that OBU meet … Joined Lutterloh, Huslig and Pehkonen on a 4x400 relay team that snapped a 50-year-old school record in the event on Jan. 29 with a 3:15.74 time at the Pittsburg State Invitational … Fifteen days later, that foursome did it again, posting time of 3:14.54 at Pittsburg State’s Indoor Gorilla Classic … Those efforts earned the OC quartet All-South Central Region honors in the event and provisionally qualified them for the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, although they didn’t make the time cutoff to compete at the national meet … During outdoor season, focused on the 400 meters, 200 meters and 4x400 relay … Earned All-GAC first-team honors in the 4x400 after he, Lutterloh, Huslig and Pehkonen placed second in 3:15.14 … Finished 15th in the open 400 at the GAC meet in Shawnee in 51.14 seconds … Posted top 400 time of season of 49.98 seconds in the Southwestern (Kan.) Invitational … Best 200-meter time was 22.31 seconds in the Oklahoma Baptist Invitational … 2015: Named as an NCCAA Scholar-Athlete in indoor track and outdoor track … Named as recipient of Division II Athletic Directors Association Academic Achievement Award … During the indoor season, qualified for the NCCAA Championships in the 4x400-meter and distance medley relays, as well as in the open 400 meters, but did not run in the latter event at the national meet in Cedarville, Ohio … Earned All-America honors in the two relay events … In the 4x400 relay, ran the third leg on a team that included Landon Huslig, Kentrell Miller and Thomas Ducat and finished second in 3:23.92 … In his only DMR appearance of the season, ran the second (400-meter) leg on a squad that included Brennym Kaelin, Emory Lobley and Roberto Diaz and finished third in 10:22.71 … Top 400 time was 52.23 seconds in the Oklahoma Baptist Indoor Invitational … Best 200 time was 23.51 seconds in the Missouri Southern Indoor Invitational … During outdoor season, qualified for the NCCAA Championships in the 4x400-meter relay … At the national meet in Rome, Ga., the quartet of Jones, Miller, Ducat and Huslig finished second in 3:16.62, earning NCCAA All-America honors … Also posted a national-qualifying time in the 400 meters, but did not run in that event at the NCCAA meet … Best 400 time was 49.72 seconds in the Southwestern Relays … Also competed in the 4x100-meter relay in three meets, with a top time of 42.80 at the Oklahoma Baptist Open … 2014: During indoor season, qualified for the NCCAA Championships in both the 4x200-meter and 4x400-meter relays, as well as in the open 200 and 400 meters, although he didn’t run in the individual events at the national meet in Bourbonnais, Ill. … Part of 4x200 team that finished seventh in the NCCAA in 1:32.68 and a 4x400 team that finished 10th in 3:29.88 … Best 200-meter time was 23.53 seconds in the Missouri Southern Lion Invite … Ran a season-best 52.62-second clocking in the 400 in the J.D. Martin Invitational at the University of Oklahoma … Part of a 4x200 relay team that won in the Central Oklahoma Indoor Invitational in 1:33.91 … During outdoor season, qualified for NCCAA Championships in the 200 and 400 meters and as part of the 4x400-meter relay team … The relay team took ninth at the national meet in Rome, Ga., in a time of 3:23.57 … Finished 17th in the 400 in a season-best 51.40 seconds and 22nd in the 200 in a career-best 22.75 seconds … In outdoor collegiate debut, ran 51.74 seconds in the 400 at the Southwestern Invitational … Previous school: Attended Escondido Charter High School in Escondido … Didn’t join track team until senior year, running in the 100, 200 and 400 meters … Qualified for California Interscholastic Federation finals in the 400 with a season-best time of 51.27 seconds … Best 100 time was 11.44 seconds and top 200 time was 23.51 seconds.
