Honors and Awards
Second-team All-Ivy League (indoors 2009)
IC4A Champion (indoors 2009)
Personal Bests
Pole Vault - 5.34 meters
2008-09
Earned second-team All-Ivy honors ... Won the pole vault at the
IC4A Indoor Championships ... Placed second in the pole vault at
the Indoor Heptagonal Championships ... Won the pole vault in his
collegiate debut at the Husky Winter Carnival ... Won the pole
vault at the Battle of Beantown ... Won the pole vault at the HYP
meet and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships
by clearing 5.20 meters, which is second best all-time at Harvard
... Named COOP student-athlete of the week (Feb. 16) for winning
the pole vault at the HYP meet.
Personal
Completed in track and field for two years at Los Gatos ...
Captained the team as a senior ... Under 18 World Champion in the
pole vault in 2007 ... Two-time NSIC All-American ... California
state champion in the pole vault in 2007 and 2008 ... San Jose
Mercury News Track Athlete of the year in 2007 and 2008 ... EA
Sports Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... Named to the 2008 All-USA
team by USA Today ... German champion in 2007 ... Holds the CCS
high school record, the State of Baden-Wuettemberg (Germany) record
(age 14-17) and the U-18 World Championships Record.