2016 Track:
Indoor: Competed in the 4×400 relay, 400m and 200m … Finished 19th in the 400m at the Music City Challenge with a time of 51.34. Outdoor: Excelled in the 400m hurdles throughout the outdoor season … Finished seventh in the event at the ACC Outdoor Championships with a time of 53.90 … Recorded a personal-best time of 52.99 in the prelims at ACCs … Finished third in the event at the Georgia Invitational with a time of 54.03 … Finished seventh in the event at the Tiger Track Classic with a time of 54.05 … Finished ninth in the event at the Yellow Jacket Invitational with a time of 54.86.
2015 Track:
Indoor: Helped the DMR team to a second-place finish and a time of 10:10.65 at the Vanderbilt Indoor Invitational … Ran a leg of the 4×400-meter relay that placed fourth at the Doc Hale VT Elite Meet with a time of 3:18.72. Outdoor: Placed second in the 400-meter hurdles (55.54) at the Georgia Spec Towns Invite … Improved that time to a personal-best 54.50 at the Duke Twilight … Helped the 4×400-meter relay team place second (3:19.36) at the Yellow Jacket Invite.
2014 Track:
Indoor: Helped the 4×400-meter relay team place third in a time of 3:27.21 at the Orange and Purple Classic … Placed sixth in the 400 meters in a time of 52.82 at the same meet … Ran a leg of the 4×400-meter relay and helped the team place seventh (3:20.77) at the ACC Championships. Outdoor: Placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 56.43 … Helped the 4×100-meter relay team place eighth in a time of 41.87 at the ACC Championships … Set a personal best in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.92 at the same meet.
2013 Track:
Indoor: Ran his best 200 meters in 23.29 at the Rod McCravy Invite … set a personal-best in the 400 meters (50.42) at the ACC Championships … Logged a PR in the 500 meters (1:07.27) at the Orange & Purple Winter Classic. Outdoor: Did not compete.
High School:
Earned four letters in track at Episcopal Baton Rouge … Named All-State in 2011 and All-Metro three times (2010-2012) … Placed second in the LHSAA Class 2A meet in the 300m hurdles (38.17) … Team was state runner-up in 2010, 2011 and 2012 … Placed third in the 2012 LHSAA indoor state championship in the 400 meters (51.45) … Took fourth in the 55-meter hurdles at the same event with a time of 8.12 … Also a four-year letterwinner in football … Selected as an all-district defensive back in 2011 … Named to the honor roll all four years of high school.
Personal:
Full name is Julian Alberto Darden … Born Oct. 7, 1993 in Baton Rouge, La. … Son of Allen and Maria Darden … Has two siblings, Alex and Mookie … Enjoys kayaking, fishing and playing paintball … Majoring in biomedical engineering.