2024 Men's Track & Field Roster
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Balmore Montes
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Los Angeles, CA
- High School:
- Bernstein HS
- Prev School:
- Santa Monica College
Bio
Balmore Montes TFRRS Page
CSUN - 2024 (Senior)
OUTDOOR: Montes competed in four meets ... finished 14th in the 800m prelims with a time of 1:57.06 at the Big West Championships (5/10/24) ... ran a time of 4:07.98 in the 1500m to take second place at the UCLA Legends Invitational (4/13/24) ... posted a season-best 800m time of 1:53.57 at the Bryan Clay Invitational (4/12/24) ... earned Big West All-Academic Team honors.
CSUN - 2023 (Junior)
OUTDOOR: Ran the 800m at six events...posted a season-best of 1:53.10 at the Bryan Clay Invitational ... season-best fifth (1:53.77) came at the season-opening UCSB Invitational ... charted a time of 1:56.88 to place 13th in the preliminaries of the Big West Championships.
INDOOR: Did not compete.
PRIOR TO CSUN
A member of the cross country team at Santa Monica College from 2018-19 … four-mile best time was 21:34.3, four-meter best time was 23:58.9 … competed in the CCCAA Southern California Regionals in 2018 and 2019 … competed for the Santa Monica College track team in 2022 … finished 11th in the 800m preliminaries of the 2022 CCCAA Southern California Preliminaries with a time of 1:57.16 … best time in the 1500m was 4:05.24.
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HIGH SCHOOL
A 2018 graduate of Bernstein High School … three-mile best time was 18:38.0 … 5000m best time was 24:14.0 … finished fifth in the Central League finals as a 10th grader ... was 24th in the Elysian Park Finals as a senior … won the Central League title in the 800m, was second in the 1600m, and helped BHS win the 4x400m relay at the Central League meet as a senior … was seventh in the 800m at the Central League Finals as a sophomore and as a junior … team won league titles in 2017 and 2018 … prep bests were 2:06.00 in the 800m, 4:46.10 in the 1500m, and 4:53.00 in the 1600m … a member of the soccer team at BHS.
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PERSONAL
Son of Deivid Henriquez and Karen Melendez … favorites include the Los Angeles Dodgers, Mookie Betts, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Elizabeth Olson, Prison Break, Interstellar, Burritos, the Los Angeles Azules, Bad Bunny, and MLB.com … chose CSUN because a mentor of his trusted the coaching staff and they would be the one to help him improve ... says his greatest sports moment so far is breaking his PR in the 800m at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego … says the best thing about being an athlete is the discipline and hard work it brings to become a better person … says the toughest thing about being a student athlete is fully committing and making the sacrifices no one else is willing to do … says the best the athlete he has competed against so far is UCLA’s Clifton Thomas … the most famous person he has met is Cordae … the person in history he would like to meet is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson … would like to switch places for one day with Chris Brown … the two people he would like to have dinner with are Drake and Elon Musk … the best advice he has been given by Nipsey Hussle who said you gotta go hard, you have to believe in yourself … his advice to young people is do what you love doing, we all fail, it is the matter how you overcome that frailer which makes us great … his greatest hero is Nipsey Hussle who came from nothing and just kept believing in himself when no one else would, he knew it took time to become great, it does not happen overnight.
OUTDOOR CAREER BESTS
CSUN - 2024 (Senior)
OUTDOOR: Montes competed in four meets ... finished 14th in the 800m prelims with a time of 1:57.06 at the Big West Championships (5/10/24) ... ran a time of 4:07.98 in the 1500m to take second place at the UCLA Legends Invitational (4/13/24) ... posted a season-best 800m time of 1:53.57 at the Bryan Clay Invitational (4/12/24) ... earned Big West All-Academic Team honors.
CSUN - 2023 (Junior)
OUTDOOR: Ran the 800m at six events...posted a season-best of 1:53.10 at the Bryan Clay Invitational ... season-best fifth (1:53.77) came at the season-opening UCSB Invitational ... charted a time of 1:56.88 to place 13th in the preliminaries of the Big West Championships.
INDOOR: Did not compete.
PRIOR TO CSUN
A member of the cross country team at Santa Monica College from 2018-19 … four-mile best time was 21:34.3, four-meter best time was 23:58.9 … competed in the CCCAA Southern California Regionals in 2018 and 2019 … competed for the Santa Monica College track team in 2022 … finished 11th in the 800m preliminaries of the 2022 CCCAA Southern California Preliminaries with a time of 1:57.16 … best time in the 1500m was 4:05.24.
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HIGH SCHOOL
A 2018 graduate of Bernstein High School … three-mile best time was 18:38.0 … 5000m best time was 24:14.0 … finished fifth in the Central League finals as a 10th grader ... was 24th in the Elysian Park Finals as a senior … won the Central League title in the 800m, was second in the 1600m, and helped BHS win the 4x400m relay at the Central League meet as a senior … was seventh in the 800m at the Central League Finals as a sophomore and as a junior … team won league titles in 2017 and 2018 … prep bests were 2:06.00 in the 800m, 4:46.10 in the 1500m, and 4:53.00 in the 1600m … a member of the soccer team at BHS.
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PERSONAL
Son of Deivid Henriquez and Karen Melendez … favorites include the Los Angeles Dodgers, Mookie Betts, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Elizabeth Olson, Prison Break, Interstellar, Burritos, the Los Angeles Azules, Bad Bunny, and MLB.com … chose CSUN because a mentor of his trusted the coaching staff and they would be the one to help him improve ... says his greatest sports moment so far is breaking his PR in the 800m at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego … says the best thing about being an athlete is the discipline and hard work it brings to become a better person … says the toughest thing about being a student athlete is fully committing and making the sacrifices no one else is willing to do … says the best the athlete he has competed against so far is UCLA’s Clifton Thomas … the most famous person he has met is Cordae … the person in history he would like to meet is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson … would like to switch places for one day with Chris Brown … the two people he would like to have dinner with are Drake and Elon Musk … the best advice he has been given by Nipsey Hussle who said you gotta go hard, you have to believe in yourself … his advice to young people is do what you love doing, we all fail, it is the matter how you overcome that frailer which makes us great … his greatest hero is Nipsey Hussle who came from nothing and just kept believing in himself when no one else would, he knew it took time to become great, it does not happen overnight.
OUTDOOR CAREER BESTS
| 800m | 1:53.10 | Bryan Clay Invitational | 4/14/23 |
| 1500m | 4:07.98 | UCLA Legends Invitational | 4/13/24 |
A Conversation with Justin Johnson
Friday, May 15
