2006-07 Track & Field - M Roster

Nick Jones

  • Position Pole Vault
  • Height 5-9
  • Weight 165
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Ballston Lake, N.Y.
  • Highschool Shenedehowa

Biography

2006-07: Finished sixth in the pole vault (13-3.5) at the Dick Shea Invitational... Came in 14th in the pole vault (13-1.5) at the Duke Asics Invitational... Placed third in the pole vault with a leap of 13-0.25 at the Union Invitational. 2005-06: Recorded his season-best pole vault of 14-3.25 three times, including at the Yale Lidlifter Invitational, where he came in third... Also finished fifth in the pole vault at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games (13-11.75). 2004-05: Seventh at the America East Outdoor Championship in the pole vault... Recorded a vault of 14-9 at the NYU FasTrack Invitational for his best height of the winter... Top UAlbany finisher with a 14-0 in the pole vault at the Husky Winter Carnival. HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letterwinner at Shenendehowa... Earned All-America honors in distance medley relay and in pole vault... Outdoor track team was 2004 state champions... Won the pole vault at the Yale Invitational with a personal-best 15-0 performance. PERSONAL: Majoring in business administration... father, Matt, serves as a UAlbany track assistant coach.