Austin Eckenroth

• 2012-13 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

2014: Indoors – cleared a bar in four of seven meets….won the Gamecock Indoor #1 (4.85m // 15-11.00)…recorded a top clearance of 16[apos]8′ (5.08m) at the Virginia Tech Invitational to finish sixth…bar of 16[apos]8′ is No. 10 in school history…SEC Indoor Championship participant, but did not clear a bar…Outdoors – won the home Weems Baskin Invitational pole vault with a clearance of 15[apos]1′ (4.60m)…cleared a personal best 16[apos]2 ¾’ (4.95m) at the Florida Relays to finish eighth…SEC Outdoor Championship participant, but did not clear a bar.

2013: Indoors, won the USC Indoor Open #1 with a height of 16-00.75 (4.90m), a height he cleared three times over the course of the season, including at the prestigious Armory Collegiate Open where he finished fifth…hit a season-best height of 16-03.25 (4.96m) at the Tyson Invitational for a seventh-place finish…competed at the SEC Indoor Championships…Outdoors, posted a pair of second-place finishes at the Weems Baskin Invitational and the Raleigh Relays…cleared a season-best height of 15-11.00 (4.85m) at Raleigh…competed at the SEC Outdoor Championships.

HIGH SCHOOL: Top clearance of 16[apos]8 in the pole vault, the fourth best all-time in the Georgia high school record books…claimed fourth place at the 2012 New Balance Outdoor Nationals….2012 All-American….2011 and 2012 Georgia 4A pole vault State Champion while competing at Flowery Branch High School in Flowery Branch, Ga…2010 Georgia 3A state runner-up…finished third at the 2011 AAU Nationals

PERSONAL: Intends to major in cardiovascular technology…son of Evonne and Stephen Eckenroth…has three siblings – Lindsey, Nicole and Stephen…brother Stephen also competes in track & field at North Georgia College