CAREER VICTORIES: 1

PERSONAL RECORDS

INDOOR

Pole Vault: 5.10m/16-8.75, 2012 Virginia Tech Elite Meet, Blacksburg, Va.

OUTDOOR

Pole Vault: 5.15m/16-10.75, 2011 NCAA Outdoor East Preliminary Round, Bloomington, Ind.

2012 AS A JUNIOR: Turned in a career best mark indoors at the Virginia Tech Elite Meet with his vault of 5.10m/16-8.75, coming in fifth overall … Finished as high as third with his finish at the Tom Jones Invitational … Competed in eight events on the season.

2011 AS A SOPHOMORE: Set a career-high pole vault mark at the NCAA East Preliminary Round with a jump of 5.15m/16-10.75 … Finished eighth at the SEC Outdoor Championships … Earned another top-three finish by clearing 5.11m/16-9.75 at the FSU Twilight meet … Placed second at the UCF Invitational to open the 2011 outdoor season, clearing 4.65m/15-3.0 … Set a career best indoors with a jump of 4.87m/15-11.75 at the 2011 SEC Indoor Championships … Finished third at the Jimmy Carnes Invitational with  a jump of 4.65m/15-3.0.

2010 AS A FRESHMAN: Captured his first career victory outdoors at the UCF Invitational with a jump of 4.72m/15-6.0, an outdoors season best … Cleared an indoors season-best 4.35m/14-3.25 at the Jimmy Carnes Invitational.

HIGH SCHOOL/PREP:

Coached by Gary Droze at Maclay High School in Tallahassee … Team finished as regional champions in 2007 and 2008 … Won the FHSAA Class A state pole vault championship in 2006 and earned a runner-up finish in 2008 … Was the Tallahassee city champion in the pole vault in 2007 and placed third at the state meet … Lists his most memorable track and field moment as winning the city pole vault championship his junior year because he recorded a personal-best in the process and beat the guys he had competed with for the first time … Personal best of 14-9 in the pole vault, achieved at the 2009 Pepsi Florida Relays.