Sam Kendricks

Personal information

Nationality

American

Born

September 7, 1992

Height

5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)

Weight

160 lb (73 kg)

Sport

Event(s)

College team

Club

Turned pro

2014

Achievements and titles

Personal best(s)

pole vault: 5.90 m (19 ft 4¹⁄₄ in) indoor, Portland, Oregon

5.82 m (19 ft 1 in) outdoor, Monaco

Medal record

World Indoor Championships
	2016 Portland	Pole vault
Summer Universiade
	2013 Kazan	Pole vault

Updated on March 18, 2016.

Sam Kendricks (born September 7, 1992) is an American track and field athlete, known primarily for the pole vault. He is the 2014 and 2015 US National Champion.^[1]

Prep

Before "Ole Miss" he jumped for Oxford High School in Oxford, Mississippi leading his team to the 2009 MHSAA 5A State Championship. He jumped 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) to set the state record. He won the state meet outdoors in 2010 and 2011, and indoors in 2011. He also lettered in cross country and soccer. He was named '11 Gatorade boys' track and field athlete of the year for Mississippi high school^[2]

NCAA

While jumping for the University of Mississippi, Kendricks won the 2013 and 2014 NCAA Championships.^[2] Sam announced his professional ambitions in 2014.^[3] Sam broke both University of Mississippi pole vault records as a freshman.^[4]

2015

He set his personal best of 5.86 m (19 ft 2¹⁄₂ in) at the indoor 2015 Reno Pole Vault Summit. Kendrick uses a hand hold at 15 ft 5 in (4.69 m) and from his performance in Reno claims the "Push-off" World Record at 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m).^[5]^[6] He won the men's pole vault at 2015 US Outdoor Championships in 5.75 m (18 ft 10¹⁄₄ in).^[7] He won the prelims of the 2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault and finished 9th in 5.65 m (18 ft 6¹⁄₄ in).

2016

He set a season best in 5.77 m (18 ft 11 in) and won New Balance Indoor Grand Prix February 14.^[8]

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing United States
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	9th	5.65 m
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, Oregon	2nd	5.80 m

References

External links

US National Championship winners in men's pole vault

1876–1878 New York Athletic Club	1877: George McNichol 1878: Alfred Ing

1879–1888 NAAAA	1879–81: William Van Houten 1882: B.F. Richardson 1883–86: Hugh Baxter 1887: Tom Ray (GBR) & Hugh Baxter 1888^{Note 1}: G.B. Quinn

1888–1979 Amateur Athletic Union	1888^{Note 1}: Lincoln Godshall 1889: Lat Stones (GBR) & D.F. O'Brien 1890: Walter Rodenbaugh 1891–92: Theodore Luce 1893–94: Christian Buchholz 1895: Hermann Thomas 1896: Franklin Allis 1897: Jesse Hurlburt 1898: Raymond Clapp 1899: Irving Baxter 1900: Bascom Johnson 1901: Charles Dvorak 1902: August Anderson 1903: Charles Dvorak 1904: H.L. Gardner 1905: Roy Heater 1906: LeRoy Samse 1907: Ed Cook 1908: William Halpenny (CAN) & Claude Allen 1909: Roy Paulding 1910: Harry Babcock 1911: Ed Cook, Frank Coyle & Sam Bellah 1912: Harry Babcock 1913: Stanley Wagoner 1914: Ken Curtis 1915: Sam Bellah 1916: Sherman Landers 1917: Edward Knourek 1918: Carl Buck 1919–20: Frank Foss 1921–22: Edward Knourek 1923–24: Edwin Myers 1925: Harry Smith 1926: Paul Harrington 1927–28: Lee Barnes 1929–30: Fred Sturdy 1931: Jack Wool 1932: Bill Graber 1933: Keith Brown & Matt Gordy 1934: Keith Brown, Bill Graber & Wirt Thompson 1935: Earle Meadows & Bill Sefton 1936: George Varoff 1937: Bill Sefton 1938: Cornelius Warmerdam 1939: George Varoff 1940–44: Cornelius Warmerdam 1945: Boo Morcom & Robert Phelps 1946: Irving Moore 1947: Boo Morcom 1948: Boo Morcom & Bob Richards 1949–51: Bob Richards 1952: Bob Richards & Don Laz 1953: Don Laz & George Mattos 1954–57: Bob Richards 1958: Ron Morris 1959: Don Bragg 1960: Aubrey Dooley 1961–62: Ron Morris 1963: Brian Sternberg 1964: Fred Hansen 1965: John Pennel 1966: Bob Seagren 1967: Paul Wilson 1968: Dick Railsback 1969–70: Bob Seagren 1971: Jan Johnson 1972: Dave Roberts 1973: Mike Cotton 1974: Dave Roberts 1975: Don Baird (AUS) * Terry Porter 1976: Earl Bell 1977: Mike Tully 1978: Dan Ripley 1979: Mike Tully

1980–1992 The Athletics Congress	1980: Tom Hintnaus 1981: Billy Olson 1982: Dan Ripley & Billy Olson 1983: Jeff Buckingham 1984: Earl Bell 1985: Joe Dial 1986: Mike Tully 1987: Joe Dial 1988–89: Kory Tarpenning 1990: Earl Bell 1991–92: Tim Bright

1993–onwards USA Track & Field	1993–95: Scott Huffman 1996–97: Lawrence Johnson 1998–99: Jeff Hartwig 2000–01: Lawrence Johnson 2002–03: Jeff Hartwig 2004: Tim Mack 2005: Brad Walker 2006: Russ Buller 2007: Brad Walker 2008: Derek Miles 2009: Brad Walker 2010: Mark Hollis 2011: Derek Miles 2012–13: Brad Walker 2014–5: Sam Kendricks

Notes	Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championships OT: The 1920, 1928, 1932, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.

Summer Universiade Champions in Men's Pole Vault

1959: Noriaki Yasuda (JPN)
1961: Dimitar Khlebarov (BUL)
1963: Gennadiy Bliznetsov (URS)
1965: John Pennel (USA)
1967: Heinfried Engel (FRG)
1970: Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)
1973–1975: François Tracanelli (FRA)
1977–1979: Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL)
1981–1983: Konstantin Volkov (URS)
1985: Radion Gataullin (URS)
1987: Viktor Spasov (URS)
1989: Bernhard Zintl (FRG)
1991–1995: István Bagyula (HUN)
1997: Khalid Lachheb (FRA)
1999: Richard Spiegelburg (GER)
2001: Aleksandr Averbukh (ISR)
2003: Oleksandr Korchmid (UKR)
2005: Björn Otto (GER)
2007: Alexander Straub (GER)
2009: Aleksandr Gripich (RUS)
2011: Łukasz Michalski (POL)
2013: Sam Kendricks (USA)
2015: Nikita Filippov (KAZ)

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