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Coby Hilton

  • Hometown
    Marshall, Minn.
  • Prev School
    Marshall H.S.
  • Indoor
    Sr.
  • Position
    Sprints
  • Outdoor
    Jr.
  • Class
    Senior

Biography


CAREER RESULTS

School Records: Outdoor – 100m/200m (2021), 4x100m Relay (39.99 – 2019); Indoor – 60m/200 (2021)
NCAA All-American Honorable Mention (2019 – 4x100m Relay)
NCAA Qualifier: 100m (2019, 2021), 200m (2019, 2021), 4x100m Relay (2019)
Drake Relays Champion: 2021 – University Division 200m
Summit League Awards: Outdoor: 2021 Outdoor Male Athlete of the Year
Summit League Championships: Outdoor: 2021 Most Outstanding Male Performer; Indoor: 2021 Male Track MVP
Summit League Track Athlete of the Week: 12/8, 4/27, 5/4 (2021)

2020-21:

OUTDOOR: Competed in seven meets while participating in the 100 & 200 meters as well as the 4x100 meter relay...placed 29th and 13th at the NCAA Division West Prelims for the 100 meters (10.38w) & 200 meters (20.54w), respectively...crowned individual champion with all-conferences honors in both the 100 meters (10.37) and the 200 meters (20.57) at the Summit League Outdoor Championship...The 100 meter time was a new school record and personal best while the 200 meter time improved his own pervious school record by 0.6 seconds.

INDOOR: Crowned SDSU's school record holder in both short sprints in a season that would see him dominate the Summit League and lead the conference for its duration... Ran a personal best 6.75 in prelims of the 60m dash before going on to win gold with a 6.76 clocking in finals... also won the 200 at league championships with a mark of 20.93... set the Summit League meet record in prelims with a 21.05, only to crush that record in finals.

2019-20:

OUTDOOR: Season canceled

INDOOR: Competed in nine events… took fourth in the 60m dash at the Summit League Championships with a time of 6.94 and fifth in the 200 with a 21.97… took second in the 60m dash at the SDSU Indoor Classic with a 6.89… won the 200 in a time of 21.96 at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet… ran a season-best 6.87 to finish second in the 200 at the Jim Emmerich Invitational.

2018-19:

OUTDOOR: Earned a trip to the NCAA Championships in the 4x100 where the Jacks finished 12th with a time of 39.99… member of first place winning 4x100 at the Summit League Championships with a time of 40.99… ran a personal best 100 at the Summit League Championships to take gold… picked up another gold medal in the 200, running a 21.04… took second in the 100 with a 10.65 at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate… picked up a PR and first place finish in the 200 at the South Dakota Challenge with a time of 20.92… opened the season with a 200 victory at the Oral Roberts Invitational with a 21.33.

INDOOR: Competed in nine events… won the 200 at the UND-SDSU Dual with a time of 21.41… took first in the 200 at the SDSU Indoor Classic with a mark of 21.30… grabbed a PR of 6.85 in the 60m dash during prelims at the Summit League Championships.

2017-18:

OUTDOOR: Competed 15 events, including three events in his first Summit League Championships (5/10-12) ... recorded PRs in the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay at the league championships ... finished fourth in the prelims of the 100m (10.51w) to add his third PR reset - beating his 2017-best by 0.37 seconds - and finished fifth in the finals (10.57) ... his 100m PR is tied with Sam Zenner’s 2017 mark for four-fastest all-time ... finished as the best Jackrabbit in the 200m (third in the prelims and fourth in the finals) in the 200m, with his legal PR set in the finals (21.34) however, recorded a 21.21 200m in the prelims with an illegal wind (over 4.0) ... his legal mark is tied for fourth all-time with Mark McConnell’s 1986 mark - his illegal wind mark would have been third all-time, 0.01 seconds from Jason Harris’ 1998 second all-time mark ... added their second school-record reset in the 4x100m relay at the league championships, winning the event (40.40) with Hilton as the first leg ... early on in the season, the 4x100m relay team that finished with the school's second-best mark - short by 0.03 seconds (40.94) - at the Drake Relays (4/25-28), went to the Nebraska Invite (5/5) and broke the 2015 record (previous school record - 40.91) by 0.07 seconds (won, 40.84) ... was in the top-three in four of the five 4x100m relay teams, winning two of them ... had a top-three finish in the 100m at the Tulsa Duals (3/16-17 - third, 10.93) and in the 200m at Howard Wood (5/4-5 - second, 21.94) ... notched five top-10 marks in school history throughout the 2018 indoor/outdoor seasons - all of the events he’s competed in ... had the team’s second-best 100m mark (fifth in the league, 188th in the NCAA), best 200m mark (eighth in the league) and best 4x100m relay mark (second, 152nd in the NCAA) on the season performance list.

INDOOR: Competed in 10 events ... recorded his PR mark in the 60m finals of the last regular-season meet - the SDSU Last Chance (2/16) - finishing runner-up (6.97) and trimming 0.02 seconds off her previous-best set in the first meet of the season, the SDSU Holiday Open (12/1-2) - 6.99 for sixth place ... won the prelims at the SDSU Last Chance prior to finishing runner-up in the finals with his PR - the school’s seventh-best mark all-time ... also competed in four 200m events, with his PR coming in the first meet of the season - at the SDSU Holiday Open - where he placed fourth overall (22.02) and trimmed his previous-best by 0.24 seconds set in 2017 unattached ... his 200m indoor PR is seventh all-time on SDSU’s top 10 list ... won the SDSU Last Chance 200m event (22.17), his lone career win in the event and overall individually ... notched five top-10 marks in school history throughout the 2018 indoor/outdoor seasons - all of the events he’s competed in ... had the team’s third-best 60m (ninth in the league) and fourth-best 200m (12th) on the season performance list.

2016-17:

OUTDOOR: Redshirted ... competed in seven events unattached ... ran a season-best 11.20 in the 100m at the SMSU Mustang Open (3/31-4/1), finishing third ... recorded a season-best 22.55 in the 200m at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays (5/5-6), placing ninth.

INDOOR: Redshirted ... competed in 11 events unattached ... ran a season-best 7.06 in the 60m at the SDSU Holiday Open and Multi (12/2-3), placing second ... posted a season-best 22.26 in the 200m at the SDSU Last Chance (2/17), finishing second.

BEFORE SDSU: Finished seventh in the 200m (22.55) and 14th in the 100m (10.95) at the 2016 AA state meet ... won conference titles in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay in 2016 ... earned all-conference and all-state honors as a senior ... lettered all four years in track and field.

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    Sprints
  • 2018Sophomore

    Sprints
  • 2019Sophomore

    Sprints
  • 2020Junior

    Sprints
  • 2020-21Senior

    Sprints
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