Colin Schultz

Class:
Redshirt Senior
Position:
Mid-distance
Height:
6-3
Hometown:
Las Vegas, Nev.
Prev School:
Liberty High School

Top Efforts in a Liberty Uniform

400 - 50.37

800 - 1:48.96

1,000 - 2:23.01 (Indoor School Record)

1,500 - 3:43.58 (School Record)

Mile - 4:04.94 (Indoor)

All-Big South Honors (4)

2017 Indoor 800 - 3rd

2017 Indoor Mile - 3rd

2018 Indoor 800 - 3rd

2018 Outdoor 1,500 - 2nd

2017 Cross Country (R-Sr.)

• Wrapped up his first collegiate cross country season by placing 20^th at the Big South meet

• Opened his year with an eighth-place finish at the UVA Duals, sealing Liberty’s one-point victory over host Virginia

• Fastest 8K time (25:49.3) came at Pre-Nationals

• Posted an 11^th-place finish in the Liberty Big South Preview

2017 Outdoor Track & Field (Sr.)

• Did not compete in any races for Liberty and was redshirted

• Ran well while competing unattached, setting new personal bests for the 800 (1:51.16 at the Liberty Collegiate Invitational) and 1,500 (3:46.28 at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier)

2016-17 Indoor Track & Field (R-Jr.)

• His best event was the 1,000, where he finished as the IC4A runner-up, set two school records (2:23.99 in the IC4A prelims and 2:23.01 in the IC4A final) and clocked a Liberty Indoor Track Complex record of 2:26.32 at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational (Jan. 28)

• Big South third-place finisher in the 800 and mile (personal-best 4:11.62)

• Big South Men’s Track Athlete of the Week on March 8

• Won the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup 800 in a personal-best 1:51.25, tying for No. 2 on Liberty’s all-time list

2016 Outdoor Track & Field (Jr.)

• Finished fourth at the Big South meet in both the 800 and 1,500 (personal-best 3:54.57)

• Sped to a season-best 800 time of 1:51.53 at the Aggie Last Chance

• Helped the Flames finish ninth in the Texas Relays 4 x 800 relay in a season-best time of 7:39.24

• Also part of a 3:15.44 4 x 400 relay squad in the Texas Relays prelims

2015-16 Indoor Track & Field (R-So.)

• Ran the 1,200-meter leadoff leg for the Flames’ Big South runner-up distance medley relay squad and placed fourth in the 800

• Part of the Flames’ third-place 4 x 800 relay squad at the IC4A meet, which posted the second-fastest time (7:30.50) in program history

• Clocked a season-best 800 time of 1:53.84 at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup

2015 Outdoor Track & Field (So.)

• Placed 11^th in the Big South 800-meter prelims

• Anchored the Flames to a season-best 4 x 800 relay time of 7:38.16 at the Penn Relays

• Season-best 800 time of 1:55.48 came at the Duke Invitational

2014-15 Indoor Track & Field (So.)

• Did not compete in any meets due to injury and was redshirted

2014 Outdoor Track & Field (Fr.)

• Placed fourth in the 4 x 400 relay and 11th in the 800 at the Big South meet

• Ran in the 4 x 800 relay at the IC4A meet

• Served as the 800-meter leg for the seventh-fastest distance medley quartet in Liberty history (9:58.14), at the Penn Relays

• Fastest 800 of the season (1:53.58) was achieved at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier

2013-14 Indoor Track & Field (Fr.)

• Split 1:51.5 on the second leg as the Flames notched a school-record 4 x 800 relay time of 7:29.15 during the IC4A prelims and then came in sixth in the final

• Anchored the Flames to third place in the Big South 4 x 400 final and placed 10th in the 800 prelims

• Moved into the program's all-time indoor top 10 with his 800 time of 1:54.86 at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup

Prep

• Graduated from Liberty High School

• 2013 Nevada Division I state champion at 800 meters

• Clocked an 800 personal-best time of 1:52.77 to win the 2013 Arcadia Invitational crown

• Placed third in the 800 at the 2013 Great Southwest Classic

• State meet qualifier in cross country and wrestling

Personal

• Son of Jim and Pam Schultz

• Father was a rower at Seattle Pacific

• Brother Cyle competed in rowing at Navy