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2016-17 Track and Field Roster

Michael Demby

  • Position Hurdles
  • Height 6-2
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Wharton, N.J.
  • High School Morris Hills

Biography

Personal Best Marks

Indoor:

400-meter: 48.93 (Don Kirby Invite 2/13/16)

Outdoor: 

400-meter: 52.94 (Willie Williams 3/18/16)

400-meter hurdles: 52.63 (Jim Click Shootout 4/09/16)


2016: Indoors, Demby was a part of the 4x400 squad that took fourth-place at the MPSF Championships with a time of 3:11.45. Individually, Demby set a personal record in the 400-meter race at the Husky Classic with a time of 48.93 seconds. Outdoor, individually Demby raced in the 400-meter and the 400-meter hurdles. Demby finished in fourth-place in the lone 400-meter race he competed in with a time of 52.94 at the Willie Williams Classic. Demby had three top-six finishes in the 400-meter hurdles, with a personal-best coming at the Jim Click Shootout with a time of 52.63 that was good for a fourth-place finish. Demby earned All-America honorable mention in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of for a 19th-place finish. They ran the second-best time in Arizona history at the prelims with a time of 3:05.44.

2015: Redshirted during the indoor and outdoor seasons.

BEFORE ARIZONA: Demby attended Gwynedd-Mercy University from the fall of 2012 to the spring of 2014 … He had personal-best times of 6.68 in the indoor 60-meter hurdles and 53.39 in the outdoor 400-meter hurdles … He qualified for the DIII NCAA Championships.

HIGH SCHOOL: Demby was a four-time letterwinner on the track at Morris Hills High School … As a senior, Demby earned all-conference honors during the indoor and outdoor season … Earned All-America honors at the New Balance Nationals in 2011 and 2012 … He earned all-conference all-academic accolades as a senior as well. 

PERSONAL: He is the son of Stanley and Andrea Demby … He has one sister, Desma … Demby is pursuing a degree in criminal justice with a minor in business.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Junior

    Hurdles
    6'2"
  • 2015-16Junior

    Hurdles
    6'2"
  • 2016-17Senior

    Hurdles
    6'2"
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