2023 Track and Field Roster

Deshay Fernandes

  • Class (I/O) R-SR/R-SR
  • Event Mid-Distance
  • Hometown Miami, Fla.
  • High School Christopher Columbus

Biography

Collegiate PR | Indoor: 600m: 1:18.80, 800m: 1:50.25; Outdoor: 800m: 1:50.23, 1500m: 4:00.58
High School PR | 800m: 1:53.94; 1,600m: 4:22.63

Deshay Fernandes' TFRRS Profile (for top performances and meet results)
Academic Honors
  • 2020 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll

2023 Outdoor: Began the outdoor season with an event title in the 4x800 relay (7:23.80) at the Pepsi Florida Relays. Also finished twenty-third in the 800m (1:50.74) at the Florida Relays... Finished twenty-second in the 800m (1:50.23). Ran the 800m (2:00.26) at the East Coast Relays... Placed twenty-fourth in the 800m (1:51.01) at the SEC Outdoor Championships.

2023 Indoor: Made his season debut at the Clemson Invitational in the 600M, finishing seventh (1:19.89)… Competed in the 800m at the Razorback Invitational, finishing fourteenth (1:51.58)… Participated in the 800m at the Tyson Invitational, placing eleventh (1:52.07)... Finished eleventh in the 800m (1:50.25) and was on the DMR team that finished tenth in the DMR (9:54.24) at the SEC Indoor Championships.

2022 Outdoor: Opened the outdoor season in 1:52.01 at the Pepsi Florida Relays in the 800 meters ... ran the 800 meters in 1:52.96 at the Tom Jones Memorial ... competed in the 800 meters and 1500 meters at the North Florida Invitational ... competed in the 800 meters at the SEC Outdoor Championships

2022 Indoor: Ran at both the Clemson Invitational and the Rod McCravy Memorial Meet ... ran on Florida's DMR team at the SEC Indoor Championships which finished in fifth place

2021 Outdoor: Competed in five outdoor meets including the LSU Invitational where he finished 3rd in the 800m … competed in the 800m at SEC Outdoors logging a 1:53.19 time (finished 23rd).

2021 Indoor: Competed in the semifinals round of the 800 meters at SEC Indoors, posting a new personal record in addition to running third leg for Florida's 10th-placed DMR squad ... competed during Florida's season opener at South Carolina's Carolina Challenge where he ran the 800 meters and contributed to UF's 4x400-meter relay 'B' team ... competed in the South Carolina Invitational, where he ran the 800 meters ... ran the 800 meters during the Tyson Invitational.

2020 Indoor: Made his collegiate debut at Clemson's Orange and Purple Elite ... competed in five meets ... ran third leg for Florida's DMR squad at SEC Indoors, finishing seventh ... logged a season-best time of 1:54.18 in the 800 meters at Clemson's Tiger Paw Invitational ... named to the 2020 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll.

2019 Indoor and Outdoor: Did not compete at any meets.

HIGH SCHOOL/PREP: 2017 FHSAA Class 4A Outdoor Finals runner-up (800m) ... 2017 FHSAA Class 4A Cross Country State Championships runner-up ... 2018 FHSAA Class 4A Outdoor Finals fourth-place finisher (800m).

Deshay Fernandes' FloridaGators.com Cross Country Bio

Historical Player Information

  • 2019Freshman

    Mid-Distance
  • 2020Sophomore

    Mid-Distance
  • 2021Junior

    Mid-Distance
  • 2022Redshirt Junior

    Mid-Distance
  • 2023Redshirt Senior

    Mid-Distance