2010-11 Track & Field - M Roster

Wilfredo de Jesus Elias

  • Position Throws
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 235
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Arroyo, P.R.
  • Highschool Natividad Rodriguez Gonzalez

Biography

2009-10: Represented native country of Puerto Rico at the Central American and Caribbean Games, placing seventh in the hammer throw with a toss that sailed 188-feet, 8-inches ... Outdoors, advanced to the final round and placed 15th in the hammer throw with a mark of 199-5 at the NCAA East Preliminary Round ... Broke own school record in the hammer throw with a toss that sailed 201-11 to place third at the IC4A Championship ... Eclipsed own program standard again (211-3) at the Army Hammer Throw Series ... Also finished third in the event with a mark of 187-7 at the America East Conference Championship ... Earned all-conference honors and led the Great Danes to their league-record sixth straight title ... Placed seventh in the hammer throw (185-4) before a record crowd at Penn Relays ... Won the event at the UMass Nine-Way Meet and Friendship Meet with marks of 185-1 and 197-10, respectively ... Indoors, finished sixth in the weight throw with a toss that traveled 60-6 at the IC4A Championship ... Earned all-conference honors by winning the weight throw (62-4.50) for the second straight year at the America East championship to help the Great Danes capture their league-record fifth straight title ... Also won the event at Army's Carleton Crowell Open and the Great Dane Classic.

2008-09: Outdoors, won the hammer throw with what was then a school-record toss and NCAA East Regional qualifying mark of 200-3 to earn all-conference accolades at the America East championship ... Placed third in the "College" division of the hammer throw at Penn Relays with a mark of 192-8, which was a program record at the time ... Indoors, placed eighth in the weight throw (59-7.50) at the IC4A Championship to help the Great Danes win the team title for the first time ... Earned all-conference laurels for winning the weight throw (62-6) at the America East championship ... Won the weight throw at the Great Dane Classic with a toss that went 62-9.50, resetting own school record at the time ... Broke own program standard for the second time in as many meets in the weight throw (63-6.75) at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational.

2007-08: Named to the America East Academic Honor Roll (indoor/outdoor) ... Outdoors, finished 12th in the hammer (184-0) at the IC4A Championship ... Earned all-conference laurels for placing second in the hammer (181-7) at the America East championship ... Placed ninth in the hammer "College" division (177-7) at Penn Relays ... Indoors, finished 11th in the weight throw (57-4.75) at the IC4A Championship ... Earned all-conference honors for placing second in the weight throw (58-4.75) at the America East championship ... Set what was then a school record in the weight throw (59-8.5) with a second-place finish at the Giegengack Invitational.

High School: Four-year letterwinner in track and field at Natividad Rodriguez Gonzalez ... Placed third in the hammer throw at the 2007 Pan-Am Junior Championships and 2004 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico... Finished second in the hammer at the 2006 Central America and Caribbean Games... 2007 indoor All-American in the weight throw ... Also lettered in weightlifting for three years.

Personal: Majoring in human biology ... Born April 30, 1989 ... Has two brothers, Carlos Alicia and Willie de Jesus, and one sister, Jania de Jesus.

Historical Player Information

  • 2007-08Freshman

    Throws
    5'11" 270 lbs
  • 2008-09Sophomore

    Throws
    5'11" 270 lbs
  • 2009-10Junior

    Throws
    5'11" 254 lbs
  • 2010-11Senior

    Throws
    5'11" 235 lbs