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Tyler Valdez - Cross Country - University of New Mexico Lobos Athletics

Tyler Valdez

Class

So.

Hometown

Albuquerque, N.M.

Previous School

Belen HS

2017-18
2017 XC:
Saw action at four meets … opened his season at the Lobo Invitational, placing ninth overall and fourth on the team in 16:09.00 … UNM’s No. 6 at the Wisconsin Invitational, running 26:08.6 … placed 54th at the Mountain West Championships … ran to 111th at the NCAA Mountain Regional. 
2018 Indoors:
Did not compete.
2018 Outdoors: Did not compete.

2016-17
2016 XC:
Competed at three meets … scored at the Lobo Invitational, running to 18th overall and fourth on the team with a time of 16:26 … ran a time of 26:16.3 over the 5-mile course at the Notre Dame Invitational … placed 62nd at the Mountain West Championships. 
2017 Indoors
: Saw action at five meets … opened at the Cherry & Silver Invitational, running 4;21.51* in the mile for 14th place … took fourth in the 3000 at the New Mexico Team Invitational, running 8:41.51* … ran 4:15.48* in the mile at the New Mexico Classic … ran the 3000 and 5000 at the Mountain West Championships.
2017 Outdoors: Competed once, running a fifth-place time of 8:45.88* in the 3000-meter run at the Don Kirby Tailwind Open.

2015-16
2015 XC:
Saw action at the Texas Tech Double Duals, placing a team-best 14th with a time of 21:35.70. 
2016 Indoors
: Saw action at three meets … ran an eighth-place time of 8:45.59* in the 3000-meter run at the Cherry & Silver Invitational … posted a time of 4:20.69* in the mile for seventh place at the New Mexico Classic.
2016 Outdoors: Competed twice in the 1500, running 4:00.75* for ninth place at the Don Kirby Tailwind Open and 4:04.03* for seventh place at the UTEP Invitational.

2014-15
2014 XC:
Ran once, taking 43rd overall at the Lobo Invitational.
2015 Indoors
: Competed twice, running 9:10.06* in the 3000 at the New Mexico Classic and 1:59.82* in the 800 at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational.
2015 Outdoors: Ran once, clocking a fifth-place time of 4:07.26* in the 1500 at the New Mexico Quadrangular.

HIGH SCHOOL
2013 graduate of Belen High School in Belen, N.M. … took third in the 800-meter run at the 2013 New Mexico 4A State Championships with a personal-record time of 1:57.65 … won the event four other times his senior year, including at the New Mexico District 4A Meet … won the 1,600 at the New Mexico 4A District Meet in 4:29.57 to set a personal record … claimed fourth in both events at the 2014 Marilyn Sepulveda Meet of Championships, with a time of 2:01.27 in the 800 and 4:34.72 in the 1,600.

* indicates a performance that has been adjusted based on the NCAA altitude conversion protocol