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Olivia Gruver
- Position:
- Pole Vault
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Reisterstown, Md.
- High School:
- Franklin
- Prev School:
- Kentucky
NCAA Outdoor Record-Holder set in March 2019
2020 USTFCCCAΒ National Women's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year
2020 Collegiate Women's Athlete of the Year - Track & Field News
2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
2020 MPSF Champion
2020 USA Indoor Bronze Medalist
2019 Pan Am Games Fourth-Place
2019 NCAA Outdoor Bronze Medalist
2017 and 2018 NCAA Outdoor Pole Vault Champion
2017 and 2018 NCAA Indoor Bronze Medalist
2018 SEC Indoor Champion
Pac-12 Conference Record-Holder
Six-Time All-American
Gruver Features
>>Β Memories Of Outdoor Record Help Gruver Deal With Abrupt End To NCAA Career (Dyestat; Apr. 4, 2020)
>> Gruver Named Nation's Premier Field Athlete - And, Eventually, The Olympics Are Next (Seattle Times; Mar. 26, 2020)
>> UW's GruverΒ Broke The Pole Vault Record But Has Eyes On Loftier Heights (Seattle Times; Apr. 5, 2019)
2020: In just four competitions, established herself as the top vaulter in the NCAA once again and was named USTFCCCA National Womenβs Field Athlete of the Year, the first Husky to win a USTFCCCA national award β¦ named 2020 Collegiate Women's Indoor Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News covering both track and field athletes ... earned her final collegiate All-America honor by qualifying for the NCAA Indoor Championships as the top seed, but did not get to compete at nationals as the meet was canceled due to COVID-19 β¦ won the Bronze Medal at the USATF Indoor Championships in New Mexico, clearing 15-5, which was a new School Record and the No. 2 best clearance in NCAA indoor history β¦ at the UW Indoor Preview, broke the Dempsey Record with a make of 15-3 1/2 β¦ won the MPSF Championship and broke the meet record with a clearance of 14-7 1/4 β¦ also made 14-9 to win the UW Invitational β¦ earned her first Academic All-America honor, named to the First Team by CoSIDA β¦ earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors.
2019: Made the most of her one outdoor season as a Husky in record-setting fashion, as she broke the NCAA Outdoor Record at the Stanford Invitational, clearing 15-6 1/4 (4.73-meters) to better Sandi Morris' record by one centimeter ... that make shattered the Pac-12 conference record by five inches and broke the UW outdoor record by a full foot β¦ also cleared 15-1 1/2 during the series at Stanford which first broke the Pac-12 record of 15-1 before she raised it again β¦ dealt with a strained hamstring late in the season but fought through it to take third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin with a height of 14-7 1/4 and earn another First Team All-America honor β¦ following the NCAA season, competed for Team USA at the 2019 Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru, and finished fourth with a make of 14-11 ... placed eighth as the top collegian at the 2019 USATF Outdoor Championships, making 14-11 ... had another huge clearance at the Beach Invitational on Apr. 20, clearing 15-3 1/2 for the win β¦ redshirted the indoor season with plans to compete indoors in 2020 β¦ competing unattached indoors, won the UW Invitational clearing 14-10, and won the Husky Classic at 14-4 1/2 and the Last Chance Elite Meet at 14-2 1/2.
2018 (At Kentucky): Repeated as the NCAA Outdoor Champion, just the second woman to win back-to-back titles and first since Kylie Hutson in 2009-10 β¦ a semifinalist for the Bowerman Award, the top award in collegiate track β¦ won the NCAA title despite missing a month and a half outdoors due to injury, coming back just one meet before the SEC Championships β¦ at the NCAA finals in Eugene, cleared 14-11 on her first attempt to win, after surviving a third-attempt make at her first bar at 13-7 ΒΌ β¦ earned her fourth All-America First Team honor with the win β¦ advanced through East Prelims making 13-8 Β½ β¦ was fourth at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a make of 13-11 ΒΌ β¦ indoors, was the NCAA third-place medalist for the second year in a row, making 14-9 Β½ at the NCAA Indoor Championships for All-America First Team once again β¦ won the SEC Indoor Championship with the second-best clearance in NCAA indoor history, as she jumped a PR of 15-3 ΒΎ, setting an SEC record β¦ won the Rod McCravy Memorial with another huge make of 15-3 β¦ another 15-foot clearance, going 15-1, at the Kentucky Invitational β¦ opened her year making 14-1 ΒΌ at the Hoosier Open in December of 2017.
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2017 (At Kentucky): Capped an historic sophomore season by becoming Kentuckyβs first womenβs pole vault NCAA Champion as she made a then-PR of 14-9 at the NCAA finals at Hayward Field in Eugene β¦ cleared the winning bar on her first attempt and had three other first attempt clearances and just one second-attempt make at 14-5 ΒΌ β¦ qualified for the USATF Outdoor Championships but did not clear her opening height β¦ advanced to NCAAs by making 13-9 ΒΌ to take first at East Prelims β¦ took second and was top collegiate vaulter at the Texas Invitational going 14-8 ΒΌ β¦ indoors, was the third-place finisher at the NCAA Indoor Championships for her first All-America First Team honor, making 14-5 ΒΌ in the finals β¦ upped her PR to 14-8 ΒΎ at the SEC Indoor Championships, taking third in a loaded field β¦ cleared 14-3 ΒΌ at the Tyson Invitational for fifth β¦ runner-up at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet with a clearance of 14-1 ΒΌ.
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2016 (At Kentucky): Broke school and freshman records in the pole vault in her first season and advanced through to the NCAA Outdoor Championships β¦ at her first national championship, placed 21st in Eugene with a make of 13-3 Β½ to earn All-America honorable mention β¦ advanced to the final site of NCAAs by taking ninth at East Prelims with a make of 13-11 ΒΌ β¦ her season-best and first 14-foot make came at the Virginia Challenge, winning at 14-1 ΒΌ β¦ third at the LSU Invitational with a 13-9 ΒΎ clearance β¦ won the Spec Towns Invitational at 13-9 ΒΌ β¦ indoors, was eighth at the SEC Indoor Championships making 13-6 ΒΌ β¦ an indoor season-best of 13-8 ΒΌ at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet, placing third β¦ second in her collegiate debut, making 13-1 Β½ at the 2015 Hoosier Open.
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High School: An accomplished pole vaulter, having cleared 13 feet, and won at multiple high-level stages β¦ won the 2014 and 2015 Maryland State pole vault titles indoors, going 13-4 in 2015 β¦ won the 2014 Penn Relays pole vault title having cleared a PR 12β3.5β β¦ also won the Baltimore County Championship in 2014 β¦ competed in the high jump and long jump as well, taking fifth in the high jump (5-0) and sixth in the long jump (16-5) at the 3A State Championships as a senior in 2015.
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Major Meets
2016 SEC Indoors β 8th, Pole Vault
2016 SEC Outdoors β NH, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Prelims β 9th, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Outdoors β 21st, Pole Vault (All-America Honorable Mention)
2017 SEC Indoors β 3rd, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Indoors β 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2017 SEC Outdoors β NH, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Prelims β 1st, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Outdoors β 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2017 USA Outdoors β NH, Pole Vault
2018 SEC Indoors β 1st, Pole Vault (SEC Champion)
2018 NCAA Indoors β 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2018 SEC Outdoors β 4th, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Prelims β 3rd, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Outdoors β 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2019 NCAA PrelimsΒ β 2nd, Pole Vault
2019 NCAA OutdoorsΒ β 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2019 USA OutdoorsΒ β 8th, Pole Vault
2019 Pan Am GamesΒ β 4th, Pole Vault
2020 USA Indoors - 3rd, Pole Vault
2020 MPSF - 1st, Pole Vault (MPSF Champion)
2020 NCAA Indoors - Pole Vault Qualifier (All-America)
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Outdoors Bests
Pole Vaultβ¦β¦.15-6 1/4 (Collegiate Outdoor Record)
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Indoors Bests
Pole Vaultβ¦β¦.15-5Β (No. 2 in NCAA history)
Academic Honors
2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
2020 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2020 USTFCCCAΒ National Women's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year
2020 Collegiate Women's Athlete of the Year - Track & Field News
2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
2020 MPSF Champion
2020 USA Indoor Bronze Medalist
2019 Pan Am Games Fourth-Place
2019 NCAA Outdoor Bronze Medalist
2017 and 2018 NCAA Outdoor Pole Vault Champion
2017 and 2018 NCAA Indoor Bronze Medalist
2018 SEC Indoor Champion
Pac-12 Conference Record-Holder
Six-Time All-American
Gruver Features
>>Β Memories Of Outdoor Record Help Gruver Deal With Abrupt End To NCAA Career (Dyestat; Apr. 4, 2020)
>> Gruver Named Nation's Premier Field Athlete - And, Eventually, The Olympics Are Next (Seattle Times; Mar. 26, 2020)
>> UW's GruverΒ Broke The Pole Vault Record But Has Eyes On Loftier Heights (Seattle Times; Apr. 5, 2019)
2020: In just four competitions, established herself as the top vaulter in the NCAA once again and was named USTFCCCA National Womenβs Field Athlete of the Year, the first Husky to win a USTFCCCA national award β¦ named 2020 Collegiate Women's Indoor Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News covering both track and field athletes ... earned her final collegiate All-America honor by qualifying for the NCAA Indoor Championships as the top seed, but did not get to compete at nationals as the meet was canceled due to COVID-19 β¦ won the Bronze Medal at the USATF Indoor Championships in New Mexico, clearing 15-5, which was a new School Record and the No. 2 best clearance in NCAA indoor history β¦ at the UW Indoor Preview, broke the Dempsey Record with a make of 15-3 1/2 β¦ won the MPSF Championship and broke the meet record with a clearance of 14-7 1/4 β¦ also made 14-9 to win the UW Invitational β¦ earned her first Academic All-America honor, named to the First Team by CoSIDA β¦ earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors.
2019: Made the most of her one outdoor season as a Husky in record-setting fashion, as she broke the NCAA Outdoor Record at the Stanford Invitational, clearing 15-6 1/4 (4.73-meters) to better Sandi Morris' record by one centimeter ... that make shattered the Pac-12 conference record by five inches and broke the UW outdoor record by a full foot β¦ also cleared 15-1 1/2 during the series at Stanford which first broke the Pac-12 record of 15-1 before she raised it again β¦ dealt with a strained hamstring late in the season but fought through it to take third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin with a height of 14-7 1/4 and earn another First Team All-America honor β¦ following the NCAA season, competed for Team USA at the 2019 Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru, and finished fourth with a make of 14-11 ... placed eighth as the top collegian at the 2019 USATF Outdoor Championships, making 14-11 ... had another huge clearance at the Beach Invitational on Apr. 20, clearing 15-3 1/2 for the win β¦ redshirted the indoor season with plans to compete indoors in 2020 β¦ competing unattached indoors, won the UW Invitational clearing 14-10, and won the Husky Classic at 14-4 1/2 and the Last Chance Elite Meet at 14-2 1/2.
2018 (At Kentucky): Repeated as the NCAA Outdoor Champion, just the second woman to win back-to-back titles and first since Kylie Hutson in 2009-10 β¦ a semifinalist for the Bowerman Award, the top award in collegiate track β¦ won the NCAA title despite missing a month and a half outdoors due to injury, coming back just one meet before the SEC Championships β¦ at the NCAA finals in Eugene, cleared 14-11 on her first attempt to win, after surviving a third-attempt make at her first bar at 13-7 ΒΌ β¦ earned her fourth All-America First Team honor with the win β¦ advanced through East Prelims making 13-8 Β½ β¦ was fourth at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a make of 13-11 ΒΌ β¦ indoors, was the NCAA third-place medalist for the second year in a row, making 14-9 Β½ at the NCAA Indoor Championships for All-America First Team once again β¦ won the SEC Indoor Championship with the second-best clearance in NCAA indoor history, as she jumped a PR of 15-3 ΒΎ, setting an SEC record β¦ won the Rod McCravy Memorial with another huge make of 15-3 β¦ another 15-foot clearance, going 15-1, at the Kentucky Invitational β¦ opened her year making 14-1 ΒΌ at the Hoosier Open in December of 2017.
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2017 (At Kentucky): Capped an historic sophomore season by becoming Kentuckyβs first womenβs pole vault NCAA Champion as she made a then-PR of 14-9 at the NCAA finals at Hayward Field in Eugene β¦ cleared the winning bar on her first attempt and had three other first attempt clearances and just one second-attempt make at 14-5 ΒΌ β¦ qualified for the USATF Outdoor Championships but did not clear her opening height β¦ advanced to NCAAs by making 13-9 ΒΌ to take first at East Prelims β¦ took second and was top collegiate vaulter at the Texas Invitational going 14-8 ΒΌ β¦ indoors, was the third-place finisher at the NCAA Indoor Championships for her first All-America First Team honor, making 14-5 ΒΌ in the finals β¦ upped her PR to 14-8 ΒΎ at the SEC Indoor Championships, taking third in a loaded field β¦ cleared 14-3 ΒΌ at the Tyson Invitational for fifth β¦ runner-up at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet with a clearance of 14-1 ΒΌ.
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2016 (At Kentucky): Broke school and freshman records in the pole vault in her first season and advanced through to the NCAA Outdoor Championships β¦ at her first national championship, placed 21st in Eugene with a make of 13-3 Β½ to earn All-America honorable mention β¦ advanced to the final site of NCAAs by taking ninth at East Prelims with a make of 13-11 ΒΌ β¦ her season-best and first 14-foot make came at the Virginia Challenge, winning at 14-1 ΒΌ β¦ third at the LSU Invitational with a 13-9 ΒΎ clearance β¦ won the Spec Towns Invitational at 13-9 ΒΌ β¦ indoors, was eighth at the SEC Indoor Championships making 13-6 ΒΌ β¦ an indoor season-best of 13-8 ΒΌ at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet, placing third β¦ second in her collegiate debut, making 13-1 Β½ at the 2015 Hoosier Open.
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High School: An accomplished pole vaulter, having cleared 13 feet, and won at multiple high-level stages β¦ won the 2014 and 2015 Maryland State pole vault titles indoors, going 13-4 in 2015 β¦ won the 2014 Penn Relays pole vault title having cleared a PR 12β3.5β β¦ also won the Baltimore County Championship in 2014 β¦ competed in the high jump and long jump as well, taking fifth in the high jump (5-0) and sixth in the long jump (16-5) at the 3A State Championships as a senior in 2015.
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Major Meets
2016 SEC Indoors β 8th, Pole Vault
2016 SEC Outdoors β NH, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Prelims β 9th, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Outdoors β 21st, Pole Vault (All-America Honorable Mention)
2017 SEC Indoors β 3rd, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Indoors β 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2017 SEC Outdoors β NH, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Prelims β 1st, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Outdoors β 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2017 USA Outdoors β NH, Pole Vault
2018 SEC Indoors β 1st, Pole Vault (SEC Champion)
2018 NCAA Indoors β 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2018 SEC Outdoors β 4th, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Prelims β 3rd, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Outdoors β 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2019 NCAA PrelimsΒ β 2nd, Pole Vault
2019 NCAA OutdoorsΒ β 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2019 USA OutdoorsΒ β 8th, Pole Vault
2019 Pan Am GamesΒ β 4th, Pole Vault
2020 USA Indoors - 3rd, Pole Vault
2020 MPSF - 1st, Pole Vault (MPSF Champion)
2020 NCAA Indoors - Pole Vault Qualifier (All-America)
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Outdoors Bests
Pole Vaultβ¦β¦.15-6 1/4 (Collegiate Outdoor Record)
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Indoors Bests
Pole Vaultβ¦β¦.15-5Β (No. 2 in NCAA history)
Academic Honors
2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
2020 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
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