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2025-26 Men's Track & Field Roster

Ben Haver, CMU Athletics
Jayson Ortiz
Enrique Quintero
Ben Haver, CMU Athletics
Ben Haver, CMU Athletics
Tim Flynn (Colorado School of Mines)
Cameron Easton (IG: @cse.media)
Cameron Easton (IG: @cse.media)
Cameron Easton (IG: @cse.media)
Ben Haver, CMU Athletics

Teo Casados

  • Height 6-1
  • Events Sprints
  • Hometown Thornton, Colo.
  • High School Horizon
  • Prev School South Dakota Mines
  • Indoor Yr. Redshirt Senior
  • Outdoor Yr. R-Sr.

Biography



TFRRS Career Results Page (CMU)
TFRRS Career Results Page (South Dakota Mines)

Overall Career Honors
  • First Team USTFCCCA All-American (2026 Indoor - 200m)
  • 3x NCAA Championship Qualifier
    • 2025 Outdoor (200m)
    • 2026 Indoor (200m)
    • 2026 Outdoor (200m & 4x100m Relay)
  • USTFCCA South Central Region Top Performer (200m - 2025 Outdoor)
  • 7x USTFCCCA All-Region (200m)
    • 2024 Indoor (200m)
    • 2025 Outdoor (200m)
    • 2026 Indoor (60 & 200m)
    • 2026 Oudoor (100m, 200m, 4x100m Relay)
  • 2x RMAC Track Athlete of the Year (2025 & 2026 Outdoor)
  • RMAC Championship Record Holder - Outdoor 200m (20.79)
  • Dr. Randy Rhine RMAC Championship Track Athlete of the Meet (Meet MVP) - 2026 Outdoor
  • 6x RMAC Champion
    • 2024 Outdoor (200m)
    • 2025 Outdoor (100m & 200m)
    • 2026 Indoor (60m)
    • 2026 Outdoor (100m & 200m)
  • 14x Overall All-RMAC
    • 8x First Team
      • 2023 Indoor - 200m
      • 2024 Outdoor - 100 & 200m
      • 2025 Outdoor - 100 & 200m
      • 2026 Indoor - 60m
      • 2026 Outdoor - 100 & 200m
    • 6x Second Team
      • 2023 Indoor - 60m
      • 2023 Outdoor - 4x100m Relay
      • 2024 Outdoor - 4x100 & 4x400m Relays
      • 2025 Outdoor - 4x100m Relay
      • 2026 Outdoor - 4x100m Relay 
  • Official School-Record Holder in six events
    • Indoor 60m (6.69)
    • Indoor 4x400m Relay (3:14.83)
    • Outdoor 100m (10.43)
    • Outdoor 200m (20.79)
    • Outdoor 4x100m Relay (39.82)
    • Outdoor 4x400m Relay (3:14.44)
2026 Outdoor (6th Year): Completed his CMU career with another solid season… Qualified for the NCAA Championships, his third straight, in two events (200m; 4x100m Relay)… Won two gold medals and added another at the RMAC Championships… Was named as the Dr. Randy Rhine RMAC Track Performer of the Meet and was responsible for a meet-high 22 ½ team points at the conference championship… Was later voted as the RMAC Track Athlete of the Year for the second straight outdoor campaign… Set school-records in both the 200 and the 4x100-meter relay… Earned three USTFCCCA All-Region and three All-RMAC honors… Was a first team all-conference pick in both the 100 and 200 and a second team honoree in the 4x100 relay… Ran in five meets… Successfully defended his RMAC titles in both the 100 and 200 meters… Set a RMAC Championship and CMU record time of 20.79 in the 200 meters.. Won the 100 in 10.45 after setting a wind-aided (+3.2) time of 10.32 seconds at the prestigious Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays… That time is the fastest all-conditions time in program history… Earned all-region honors in the 100, 200 and 4x100-meter relay… Was ranked fourth on the regional performance list in the 200, fifth in 100 and second in the 4x100-meter relay… Helped the Mavs smash the school-record in that event with a time of 39.62 seconds at the Maverick Early Bird Open… That relay team earned the RMAC Track Athletes of the Week award… The relay time also qualified the Mavs for the NCAA Championships, marking the first time that a men’s relay squad qualified for the national championships… The team later finished 13th at the national meet… Also ran on the silver medal winning team at the RMAC Championships that posted a time of 40.06 seconds, the No. 2 ranking time in program history… Also on the Mavs’ sixth-ranked team (40.40) that competed at the prestigious Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays… Was ranked first in the 100 and the 4x100 relay on the RMAC season long performance lists… Was ranked second in the 200.

2025-26 Indoor (Redshirt Senior): Ran in five meets during another award-winning season… Earned First Team USTFCCCA All-America honors thanks to a seventh place finish in the 200 meters at the NCAA Championships… Posted a time of 21.17 seconds in the finals after finishing the preliminary round in 21.13… Had a season-best time of 21.03 at the New Mexico Team Open to rank second in CMU history… Was ranked second in the RMAC behind teammate Joseph Randolph and fourth in the South Central Region on the season-long performance lists with the altitude-adjusted time of 21.10… Was ranked 12th nationally… Did not contest the 200 meters at the RMAC Championships, but won the RMAC title in the 60 with a school-record time of 6.69 seconds… Had set the previous record of 6.70 at the Mountaineer Open & Multi at the beginning of the year before matching that time in the RMAC Championship prelims… Earned First Team All-RMAC honors… Also led the RMAC season-long performance list with his altitude-converted time of 6.73 seconds, which put him 27th (tie) on the national list… Earned USTFCCCA All-South Central Region honors after ending the season ranked fourth in the 200 and fifth in the 60 on the season-long regional performance lists.

2025 Outdoor (Senior): Had a record-setting and award-winning season highlighted by a 100/200-meter title sweep at the RMAC Championships and NCAA Championship qualification for the first time in his career… Was named as the RMAC Track Athlete of the Year as the first Maverick man to ever earn that honor… Earned three total All-RMAC honors and scored 22 team points to lead all runners… Won the gold medal and first team all-conference honors in both the 100 and 200 while also anchoring the Mavs to a former school-record and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 40.21 in the 4x100-meter relay… Claimed the silver medal and second team all-conference plaudits in the relay… Set a wind-aided career-best of 20.35 (+3.5) seconds to defend his title in the 200 meters at the RMAC Championships… Was ranked third nationally with the altitude-adjusted NCAA Championship qualifying time of 20.42… Also earned USTFCCCA South Central All-Region and Region Top Performer accolades thanks to that effort, the fastest all-conditions time in program history by more than a half-second… Set a wind-legal time of 20.92 at the Jo Meaker Classic in Canyon, Texas... Went on to finish 15th at the NCAA Championships with a time of 20.98 seconds… Set the official CMU record in the 100 meters with his winning-time of 10.43 seconds at the RMAC Championships… Had a slightly quicker wind-aided time of 10.42 (+2.8), which he used to win at the season-opening Dr. Dan Caprioglio Early Bird… Was ranked second on the RMAC’s season-long performance list in the 100 with the altitude-adjusted and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 10.45… Was also a NCAA provisional qualifier in the 4x100-meter relay at 40.33 (altitude-adjusted), a mark that put the Mavs second on the conference list.

2024-25 Indoor (Senior): Redshirt season.

2024 Outdoor (Junior): Claimed four medals at the RMAC Championships as one of the top sprinters in the RMAC… Won the conference title in the 200 meters with a season-best time of 21.04 seconds… Also earned the bronze and another First Team All-RMAC certificate in the 100 with his legal season-best time of 10.66 seconds… Had a wind-aided time of 10.49 in the prelims, matching another wind-aided mark that he used to win that meet at the Maverick Invite & Multi earlier in the season... Also won two silver medals and Second Team All-RMAC certificates in the relays at the conference meet… Anchored the 4x400-meter relay team to a school-record time of 3:14.44… Ran the second leg on the 4x100-meter team that ranks sixth in program history with their time of 40.37... Matched his 200-meter 21.04 time at sea level to take second at the Franson Last Chance Meet, hosted by Azusa Pacific allowing him to rank second on the RMAC’s season-long performance list… Was also ranked second in the RMAC in the 4x400 relay alongside teammates Kelsey Montague, Jeremiah Reed and Justin Blanton.. Was a NCAA Championship provisional qualifier in both, standing 40th nationally on the national performance lists in both events.

2023-24 Indoor (Junior): Ran in four meets, including the RMAC Championships, setting a pair of school records… Set the since-broken Maverick mark in the 200 meters with a time of 21.21 seconds at the New Mexico Team Open… Earned USTFCCCA All-South Central Region plaudits thanks to that effort, which ended up tied for third best in the region… Also anchored the Mavs’ 4x400-meter relay to a still-standing school-record and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 3:14.83 (3:15.27-converted) at that meet… Also helped the Mavs win the relay at the Mountaineer Open in December with a time of 3:24.41… Was the top preliminary round qualifier in the 200 meters at the conference meet but was unable to run in the final due to injury in the 60-meter final, where he finished eighth to score a team point… Was the fourth seed out of the 60 prelims… Set a season-best 60 time of 6.75 seconds to take second at the season-opening Mountaineer Open… Was fourth on the RMAC season-long performance list with a sea-level season-best of 6.77 at the Indoor Gorilla Classic… Was tied for the RMAC performance list lead in the 200 with his altitude-adjusted time of 21.28… Was ranked third with teammates Kelsey Montague, Elijah Williams and Justin Blanton in the relay… Was tied for 17th in the 200 and 27th in the 60 on the national performance lists.

2023 Outdoor (Sophomore): Competed in five meets, including the RMAC Championships… Earned Second Team All-RMAC honors in the 4x100-meter relay, while helping the Mavs post three of the five fastest times in program history in that event throughout the season… The team set the since broken school-record of 40.35 seconds at the CSU Pueblo Open… Helped the team to a time of 40.57 at the RMAC Championships before they ran to a sea-level time of 40.43 at the Concordia Twilight… The Mavs were ranked 29th on the national performance list with that NCAA Championship provisional qualifying time… That time was also ranked fifth in the South Central Region and second on the season-long RMAC performance list… Finished eighth in the 100 meters at the RMAC Championships… Had posted a season-best time of 10.57 at the CSU Pueblo Open… Had a season-best time of 22.64 in the 200 at the Maverick Invite… Was ranked seventh on the RMAC season-long performance list in the 100 with an altitude-adjusted time of 10.60.

2022-23 Indoor (Sophomore): Competed in seven meets, including the RMAC Championships… Earned a bronze medal and a pair of All-RMAC honors at the conference meet… Placed third in the 200 to earn First Team All-RMAC honors with a time of 22.00 seconds in the finals after running a time of 21.81 seconds in the preliminaries… Placed fourth in the 60 meters to earn Second Team All-RMAC plaudits… Had a time of 6.83 seconds in the finals after running a season-best time of 6.80 seconds in the prelims… Had a season-best time of 21.59 in the 200 at the New Mexico Classic… Also helped the Mavs set a former school-record time of 3:17.40 in the 4x400-meter relay at that meet… That team ranked third on the RMAC’s season-long performance list with a converted time of 3:17.84… Also anchored the Mavs to a relay time of 3:21.36, seventh fastest in school history at the Minnesota State Massive Meet #2… Was ranked fourth in the 60 and fifth in the 200 on the RMAC’s season-long performance lists with converted and NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying times of 6.84 and 21.55 seconds.

2022 Outdoor (Freshman): Ran in one meet, contesting both the 100 and 200 meters at the Colorado Invitational… Won the 200 in 22.06 seconds… Posted a wind-aided 100-meter time of 10.91 seconds... Was later granted a NCAA medical hardship waiver.

2021-22 Indoor (Freshman): Run unattached to a second place finish in the 60 meters at the Western Colorado Alumni Open after transferring to CMU for the spring semester… Posted a time of 6.86 seconds.

Before CMU: Attended and competed at South Dakota School of Mines in the fall of 2021… Ran at the Yellow Jacket Holiday Open in December, 2021… Won the 60-meter dash in 6.99 seconds while helping the Hardrockers to a third place finish in the 4x400-meter relay (3:32.74).

Prep: 2021 graduate of Horizon High School… Was a state qualifier for the Hawks in both the 110 and 300-meter hurdles… Had season-best times of 14.60 and 39.80… Finished second in both events at the Front Range League Championships… Had finished third in the 110-meter hurdles at the league championships as a sophomore in 2019 before his junior season was thwarted by the pandemic.

Personal: Is majoring in mechanical engineering... Parents names are Shawna and Leland... Has one younger sibling, Cameron 

Why I Chose CMU: “I choose CMU because it is a school that allows me to pursue all of my aspirations both in the classroom and on the track."

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    Sprints/Hurdles
    6'1" 175 lbs
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Sprints/Hurdles
    6'1" 180 lbs
  • 2023-24Junior

    Sprints
    6'1" 0 lbs
  • 2024-25Senior

    Sprints
    6'1" 0 lbs
  • 2025-26Redshirt Senior

    Sprints
    6'1" 0 lbs