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Colorado State University Pueblo

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2018 Men's Track and Field

Derrick Williams

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Columbia Falls, Mont.
  • Highschool Columbia Falls HS
  • Prev School Carroll College

Biography

CAREER RESULTS

2017-18

Google Cloud Academic All-America® First Team (third time) ... Google Cloud Academic All-District® (third time) ... RMAC Academic Indoor and Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year (third and fourth awards) ... RMAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... Academic All-RMAC First Team indoor and outdoor ... NCAA Elite 90 Award winner at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships (third Elite 90 award) ... RMAC Summit Award winner.

XC: Redshirt.

IT&F (Sr.): NCAA All-American with the DMR after the squad raced to a runner-up time of 9:41.84, just 0.44 seconds off the winning time ... NCAA All-American in the 3000m with a time of 8:08.63, which placed fifth ... National Qualifier in the 3000m run and ran the 1600m leg (anchor) of the DMR ... USTFCCCA All-Region (mile, DMR) ... Ran an NCAA provisional converted time of 8:07.79 at the Mines D-II Invite & Multi (Jan. 26) to rank 11th in Division II ... The DMR ran a converted time of 9:46.78 at the Mines D-II Invite & Multi, an automatic time that enters the national championships fourth in Division II ... Posted an NCAA automatic time in the mile with a mark of 4:01.79 at Colorado Invitational (Feb. 2) that finished the regular season seventh ... Also had a NCAA provisional time in the 800m run.

OT&F (Sr.): NCAA All-American after a fourth-place finish in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 8:52.61 ... USTFCCCA Second Team All-American after finishing 12th in the 5000m run at the outdoor championships with a time of 14:36.42 ... Competed in the 3000m steeplechase and 5000m at the national championships for the third time in his career … USTFCCCA All-Region (3000m Steeplechase and 5000m) … All-RMAC in the 1500m and 5000m ... Posted an NCAA automatic mark at the Bryan Clay Invitational, as he is sixth nationally in the 5000m with a time of 13:55.57 … His efforts in the steeplechase at the CSU-Pueblo Spank Blasing Invite has him ranked No. 8 nationally with a time of 8:56.54 … RMAC Champion in the 1500m … Reached the podium in the 5000m race with a third-place finish … NCAA provisional time of 3:47.77 in the 1500m came at the CU Invitational.

2016-17 

2017 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships Elite 90 Award ... 2017CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team ... CoSIDA Academic All-District.

XC (Jr.): RMAC Academic All-RMAC First Team ... USTFCCCA All-Region ... All-RMAC First Team ... Won the Montana State University/Bozeman Running Company Invitational to guide the Pack to a team victory ... Earned RMAC Runner of the Week honors for his efforts.

IT&F (Jr.): RMAC Indoor Track and Field Academic Runner of the Year ... 2x All-American Indoors in the 3000m (fourth) and with the men''s DMR (third) ... USTFCCCA All-Region in the DMR and 3000m ... RMAC Champion and All-RMAC First Team with the DMR.

OT&F (Jr.): RMAC Outdoor Track and Field Academic Runner of the Year ... All-American in both the 5000m (sixth) and 3000m steeplechase (fifth) ... USTFCCCA All-Region in the steeple and 5000m ... RMAC Steeplechase Champion and All-RMAC First Team ... Totaled three NCAA outdoor provisional marks with two in the top 15.

2015-16

2016 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships Elite 90 Award ... CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team ... CoSIDA Academic All-District ... USTFCCCA All-Academic.

XC (So.): RMAC Men''s Cross Country Academic Runner of the Year ... Academic All-RMAC First Team ... All-American after finishing 14th at his first NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships (30:06.9) ... USTFCCCA All-Region.

IT&F: Redshirted.

OT&F (So.): Academic All-RMAC First Team ... Finished fourth in the 3000 meter steeplechase at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 8:58.10 to earn All-American honors from both the NCAA and USTFCCCA ... USTFCCCA All-Region performer in the 1500m, 3000m steeplechase and 5000m ... RMAC Outdoor Champion in 3000m Steeplechase ... At the end of the outdoor regular season, owned top 10 times nationally in 3000m Steeplechase (4th), 1500m (6th) and 5000m (9th) ... Owned fastest 5K time in the nation for a day.

2014-15

XC: Redshirt.

IT&F (So.): Two-time indoor All-American this season, as he anchored the men''s distance medley relay team to a national runner-up finish and then finished second in the 3000 meter run ... USTFCCCA All-Region honors in the one mile run, 3000 meter run and in the Distance Medley Relay ... All-RMAC First Team selection after finishing second in the 3000 meter run.

OT&F (Fr.): Williams ran a time of 3:48.62 to finish third and earn his third NCAA All-American award (twice indoors) ... Was an USTFCCCA All-Region selection, All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference First Team and RMAC Champion in the 1500m this outdoor season. He was named RMAC Male Athlete of the Meet following the RMAC Championships after also winning the 3000 meter Steeplechase

Historical Player Information

  • 2015Sophomore

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  • 2016Junior

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  • 2017Junior

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    6'1"
  • 2018Senior

    Distance
    6'1"
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