Brayden Durfee

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Photo by: Boise State Sports Information Dept.

Photo by: Boise State Sports Information Dept.

Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Bend, Ore.
High School:
Summit HS

4x Spring Academic All-Mountain West (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
Mountain West Indoor Champion (2019 - Distance Medley Relay)

BOISE STATE CAREER
2021-22: INDOOR- Competed in the men’s 200m dash at the Spokane Invitational (Dec. 11)…also a member of the first-place 4x400m relay team…OUTDOOR- Raced in six meets during the outdoor season…opened the season with a pair of ninth-place finishes in the men’s 200m and 400m dashes at the 43rd Aztec Invitational…finished eighth in both the 100m and 200m dashes at the Bryan Clay Invitational (April 13-14)…at the Mountain West Outdoor Track and Field Championships (May 11-14), clocked a PR in the prelims of the 100m dash, posting a time of 10.73…qualified for finals, finishing eighth…also competed in the 200m dash and was a member of the eighth-place 4x400m relay.

2020-21: INDOOR- Did not compete...OUTDOOR- Debuted the season at the UNLV Spring Invitational Sheila Tarr-Smith Multis (March 20), closed 18th in the 200-meter dash with a personal best time of 22.10...ran the opening leg for the winning men's 4x400m relay team...paced the Bronco men in the 400m setting a personal best with a time of 50.50 at the Hayward Premiere...ran the second leg of the men's 4x400m relay...appeared in the 100m and 200m at the Oregon Relays (April 23-24) finishing seventh and ninth, respectively...broke the 11-second mark in the 100m for the first time at the West Coast Relays (April 30), clocking a time of 10.94...appeared in the 100m, 200m and 4x400m relay at the Mountain West Championships (May 13-15)...reset his personal best in the 100m with a time of 10.79 finishing seventh...notched a personal best in the 200m with a time of 21.59...closed the championships running the third leg of the 4x400m relay and helping the team to a silver medal finish with a time of 3:13.30.

2019-20: INDOOR- Opened the season at the Jackson’s Open (Dec. 14) in the 200-meter dash…ran in the 60m and 200m dash at the Bronco Invite (Jan. 18)…part of the 4x400m relay team to win at the Ed Jacoby Invitational (Jan. 24-25)…set a personal best in the final of the 60m dash clocking a time of 6.99 and finishing second at the Boise State Challenge (Feb. 14-15)…participated in the 60m and 200m at the Mountain West Indoor Championships (Feb. 27-29) setting a PR of 22.14 in the 200m…OUTDOOR- Season canceled due to coronavirus pandemic.

2018-19: INDOOR- Ran the third leg of Boise State’s winning 4x400 relay (3:24.73) at the Jackson’s Open (Dec. 8)...ran both the 400m (51.82) and a leg of Boise State’s second place 4x400 relay team at the Bronco Invitational (Jan. 12)...set a new PR in the 400m (50.24) at the New Mexico Team Invite, while also running a leg of the 4x400 relay (Jan. 26)...came within 5-hundreths of a second of his personal best in the 400m, taking seventh in 50.29...also ran a leg of Boise State’s victorious 4x400 relay (Feb. 1-2)...ran 50.65 in the 400m to take 10th at the Bronco Challenge (Feb. 9)...won a Mountain West title as a member of Boise State’s distance medley relay team, running the 400m leg (Feb. 21-23)...OUTDOOR- Saw action in the short sprints on five occasions during the outdoor season...ran a personal best of 11.11 in the 100m at the Bryan Clay Invitational (April 17-19)...personal best of 22.91 in the 200m came at the Sun Angel Classic (April 5-6)...was second in the 100m at the Border Clash (April 26-27)...competed in preliminary rounds of the 100m and 200m at the conference championships (May 8-11)...ran a leg of both the 4x100 and 4x400 relays at the Stanford Invitational (March 29-30).

2017-18: INDOOR- Appeared at only one meet, running a leg of the 4x400m relay...OUTDOOR- Redshirt season.

PRIOR TO BOISE STATE
Brayden Durfee lit up the track this past May at the Oregon 5A State Championships, guiding Summit HS to the team title in Eugene, Ore...he won both the 200m (21.81) and 400m (49.22) and also ran a leg on the winning 4x400m relay team, bringing his total event title haul on the weekend to three...Durfee also ran club with the Mondo Track Club, taking fourth place in the 200m at the New Balance Boise Indoor this past February in his future indoor track home – the Ford Idaho Center...he was also excellent as a junior in 2016, earning fourth and second, respectively, in the 200m and 400m at the state championships.

CAREER BESTS
INDOOR
60m- 6.99
200m- 22.14
400m- 50.24

OUTDOOR
100m- 10.79
200m- 21.59
400m- 50.50