Goes into the season as one of the top three collegiate vaulters in the nation

Was No. 2 coming off his outdoor season at Michigan State last year

Is competing as a graduate student

Comes in with a best of 18-1 outdoors and 18-0 1/2 indoors

Four time Big 10 pole vault champion and won the 2006 NACAC championship

Earned all-America honors indoors in the pole vault

Three time state high school champion

Working on master degree in Exercise Physiology