2024 Men's Track & Field Roster

WAC

Jorge Salazar

Jorge Salazar

  • Height:
    5-7
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
  • Highschool:
    Brownsville Porter High School

Summary

Biography

2024 Outdoor Track & Field (Senior): Ran a personal-best 1:54.87 in the 800-meter run prelims at WAC Outdoor Championships… Took second in the 800 at the Cactus Cup… Was seventh in the 800 at the 44 Farms Team Invitational… Was fourth with the 4x400-meter relay at the season-opening Kirk Baptiste Spring Break Invitational. 

2024 Indoor Track & Field (Junior): Was ninth with the distance medley relay and finished 15th in prelims of the 800-meter run at WAC Indoor Championships … Was ninth in the 800-meter run in a personal-best time of 1:54.96 and ninth in the 600-yard run in a personal-best time of 1:12.07 at the Jarvis Scott Open … Finished fifth with the distance medley relay and was 31st in the 800-meter run at the Robert Platt Invitational … Was 27th in the 800-meter run at the season-opening Arkansas Invitational. 

2023 Outdoor Track & Field (Junior): Was 6th in the 800-meter run and 8th in the 4x400-meter relay at the Cactus Cup ... Ran a PR 1:55.25 to finish 27th in the 800 at the J. Fred Duckett Twilight ... Finished 30th in the 800 at WAC Outdoor Championships. 

2023 Indoor Track & Field (Sophomore): Competed at WAC Indoor Championships, finishing 9th with the distance medley relay and 24th in the 400-meter dash. 

2022 Outdoor Track & Field (Sophomore): Placed 15th in the preliminary round of the 400-meter dash at the WAC Outdoor Championships and was on the sixth-place 4x400-meter relay … Took fourth in the 400 at Texas A&M-Kingsville’s Cactus Cup … Set a personal record of 49.53 to finish third in the 400 at the UIW Invitational … Placed third in the 400 at the Roadrunner Invitational … Competed in six meets. 

2022 Indoor Track & Field (Freshman): Competed in three meets … Finished 14th in the 400-meter dash at the WAC Indoor Championships, running a personal best time of 49.56 … Also part of the eighth-place 1,600-meter relay team at WAC Championships, which entered the record books with the eighth-best time … Finished 10th at the FasTrak Collegiate Challenge and 11th at the Houston G5 & Super 22 Invitational in the 400. 

2021 Outdoor Track & Field (Freshman): Finished 11th in the 400-meter dash with a tie of 49.88 at the WAC Championships (5/14) … PRed in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.73 at the J. Fred Duckett Twilight (4/24) … PRed in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.89 at the UIW Invitational (4/10).
 
2021 Indoor Track & Field (Freshman): Team did not compete due to COVID-19 pandemic.



2016-20 (Porter High School): 
Competed in one 100-meter dash as a senior, PRing with a time of 11.63 … PRed in the 200-meter dash as a junior with a time of 22.96 … Won district and area championships while earning silver at the region meet with a PR of 49.50 in the 400-meter dash as a junior … Competed in three relays, including the 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400-meter relays with PRs of 44.96, 1:32.98 and 3:31.50, respectively, as a junior … Competed in two cross country meets as a junior, recording a three-mile time of 17:37.3 and a 5k time of 21:29.6.

Personal: Son of Rosa and Jorge... Has one sister, Karol... Wants to be a college professor... Describes himself as disciplined, responsible and dedicated.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021Freshman

    Sprints
  • 2022Sophomore

    Sprints
  • 2023Junior

    Mid-Distance
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    2024Senior

    Mid-Distance
    5'7"
    C