NIL Opportunities
2024 Outdoor: Placed first in the Pole Vault at the Horizon League Outdoor Championships with a 5.30m.
2024 Indoor: Finished runner-up in the Pole Vault at the Horizon League Championships. Finished sixth at the Tyson Invitational. Vaulted a season best of 5.35m at the YSU Icebreaker.Â
2023 Outdoor: Earned second-team All-America honors placing 12th at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in the pole vault...cleared heights of 5.45m and 5.15m at the NCAA Championships...the 5.45m performance set the school record...at the NCAA Prelims finished fourth by clearing 5.40m at the event....cleared heights of 5.05m, 5,20m, 5.30m and 5.40m... was one of seven athletes to clear 5.40m...earned a runner-up finish at the Horizon League Championships...had event victories at the Bison Outdoor Classic and the Harrison Dillard Twilight.
2022-23 Indoor:Â Earned second-team All-America honors placing ninth at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in the pole vault...cleared heights of 5.51m, 5.41m and 5.51m at the NCAA meet...vaulted a personal best and tied the school-record mark of 5.52m at the Arkansas Tyson Invitational...earned a runner-up finish at the Horizon League Championships.
Harding: While at Division II Harding, won the 2022 outdoor pole vault championship and the 2021 indoor pole vault title...capped the 2021 indoor season being crowned an individual national champion in the pole vault at the NCAA Division II National Championships, clearing a 5.27m (17' 3 ½") bar, en route to being named a first-team All-American...received an automatic bid into the national meet with a 5.23m (17' 1 ¾") vault – a mark good for the second-best vault across the country during the regular season...accumulated four regular-season event wins in 2021...outdoors was tabbed a Second-Team All-American following his 10th-place performance at the 2021 Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Prior to the national meet, clinched an individual Great American Conference pole vault title with a 5.20m (17' 0 ½") vault...picked-up four event victories during the regular-season campaign...capped off the 2022 season by winning the NCAA Division II title in the pole vault clearing an impressive height of 5.50m...was just 0.04 meters shy of the meet record set in 1984...earned a fourth-place finish at the 2022 Indoor Track and Field Championships, clearing 5.25m (17' 2 ¾") and being rewarded with First-Team All-American status for the second-consecutive indoor season...In addition to his All-America status, was a three-time All-Central Region member and was named First-Team All-GAC in 2021...leaves Harding sitting atop the school's all-time ranks in both the indoor and outdoor pole vault, bolstering personal-best marks of 5.30m (17' 4 ½") outdoors and 5.27m (17' 3 ½") indoors.
