2019 Track & Field Roster
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Gruver, Olivia
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Olivia Gruver
- Position:
- Pole Vault
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Reisterstown, Md.
- High School:
- Franklin
- Prev School:
- Kentucky
Bio
NCAA Outdoor Record-Holder set in March 2019
2020 USTFCCCA 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
>> 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 Gruver 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 Women’s Field Athlete of the Year, the first Husky to win a USTFCCCA national award … 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 … 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 … at the UW Indoor Preview, broke the Dempsey Record with a make of 15-3 1/2 … won the MPSF Championship and broke the meet record with a clearance of 14-7 1/4 … also made 14-9 to win the UW Invitational … earned her first Academic All-America honor, named to the First Team by CoSIDA … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … redshirted the indoor season with plans to compete indoors in 2020 … 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 … a semifinalist for the Bowerman Award, the top award in collegiate track … won the NCAA title despite missing a month and a half outdoors due to injury, coming back just one meet before the SEC Championships … 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 ¼ … earned her fourth All-America First Team honor with the win … advanced through East Prelims making 13-8 ½ … was fourth at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a make of 13-11 ¼ … indoors, was the NCAA third-place medalist for the second year in a row, making 14-9 ½ at the NCAA Indoor Championships for All-America First Team once again … won the SEC Indoor Championship with the second-best clearance in NCAA indoor history, as she jumped a PR of 15-3 ¾, setting an SEC record … won the Rod McCravy Memorial with another huge make of 15-3 … another 15-foot clearance, going 15-1, at the Kentucky Invitational … opened her year making 14-1 ¼ at the Hoosier Open in December of 2017.
2017 (At Kentucky): Capped an historic sophomore season by becoming Kentucky’s first women’s pole vault NCAA Champion as she made a then-PR of 14-9 at the NCAA finals at Hayward Field in Eugene … cleared the winning bar on her first attempt and had three other first attempt clearances and just one second-attempt make at 14-5 ¼ … qualified for the USATF Outdoor Championships but did not clear her opening height … advanced to NCAAs by making 13-9 ¼ to take first at East Prelims … took second and was top collegiate vaulter at the Texas Invitational going 14-8 ¼ … indoors, was the third-place finisher at the NCAA Indoor Championships for her first All-America First Team honor, making 14-5 ¼ in the finals … upped her PR to 14-8 ¾ at the SEC Indoor Championships, taking third in a loaded field … cleared 14-3 ¼ at the Tyson Invitational for fifth … runner-up at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet with a clearance of 14-1 ¼.
2016 (At Kentucky): Broke school and freshman records in the pole vault in her first season and advanced through to the NCAA Outdoor Championships … at her first national championship, placed 21st in Eugene with a make of 13-3 ½ to earn All-America honorable mention … advanced to the final site of NCAAs by taking ninth at East Prelims with a make of 13-11 ¼ … her season-best and first 14-foot make came at the Virginia Challenge, winning at 14-1 ¼ … third at the LSU Invitational with a 13-9 ¾ clearance … won the Spec Towns Invitational at 13-9 ¼ … indoors, was eighth at the SEC Indoor Championships making 13-6 ¼ … an indoor season-best of 13-8 ¼ at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet, placing third … second in her collegiate debut, making 13-1 ½ at the 2015 Hoosier Open.
High School: An accomplished pole vaulter, having cleared 13 feet, and won at multiple high-level stages … won the 2014 and 2015 Maryland State pole vault titles indoors, going 13-4 in 2015 … won the 2014 Penn Relays pole vault title having cleared a PR 12’3.5” … also won the Baltimore County Championship in 2014 … 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.
Major Meets
2016 SEC Indoors – 8th, Pole Vault
2016 SEC Outdoors – NH, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Prelims – 9th, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Outdoors – 21st, Pole Vault (All-America Honorable Mention)
2017 SEC Indoors – 3rd, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Indoors – 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2017 SEC Outdoors – NH, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Prelims – 1st, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Outdoors – 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2017 USA Outdoors – NH, Pole Vault
2018 SEC Indoors – 1st, Pole Vault (SEC Champion)
2018 NCAA Indoors – 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2018 SEC Outdoors – 4th, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Prelims – 3rd, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Outdoors – 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2019 NCAA Prelims – 2nd, Pole Vault
2019 NCAA Outdoors – 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2019 USA Outdoors – 8th, Pole Vault
2019 Pan Am Games – 4th, Pole Vault
2020 USA Indoors - 3rd, Pole Vault
2020 MPSF - 1st, Pole Vault (MPSF Champion)
2020 NCAA Indoors - Pole Vault Qualifier (All-America)
Outdoors Bests
Pole Vault…….15-6 1/4 (Collegiate Outdoor Record)
Indoors Bests
Pole Vault…….15-5 (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 USTFCCCA 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
>> 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 Gruver 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 Women’s Field Athlete of the Year, the first Husky to win a USTFCCCA national award … 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 … 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 … at the UW Indoor Preview, broke the Dempsey Record with a make of 15-3 1/2 … won the MPSF Championship and broke the meet record with a clearance of 14-7 1/4 … also made 14-9 to win the UW Invitational … earned her first Academic All-America honor, named to the First Team by CoSIDA … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … redshirted the indoor season with plans to compete indoors in 2020 … 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 … a semifinalist for the Bowerman Award, the top award in collegiate track … won the NCAA title despite missing a month and a half outdoors due to injury, coming back just one meet before the SEC Championships … 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 ¼ … earned her fourth All-America First Team honor with the win … advanced through East Prelims making 13-8 ½ … was fourth at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a make of 13-11 ¼ … indoors, was the NCAA third-place medalist for the second year in a row, making 14-9 ½ at the NCAA Indoor Championships for All-America First Team once again … won the SEC Indoor Championship with the second-best clearance in NCAA indoor history, as she jumped a PR of 15-3 ¾, setting an SEC record … won the Rod McCravy Memorial with another huge make of 15-3 … another 15-foot clearance, going 15-1, at the Kentucky Invitational … opened her year making 14-1 ¼ at the Hoosier Open in December of 2017.
2017 (At Kentucky): Capped an historic sophomore season by becoming Kentucky’s first women’s pole vault NCAA Champion as she made a then-PR of 14-9 at the NCAA finals at Hayward Field in Eugene … cleared the winning bar on her first attempt and had three other first attempt clearances and just one second-attempt make at 14-5 ¼ … qualified for the USATF Outdoor Championships but did not clear her opening height … advanced to NCAAs by making 13-9 ¼ to take first at East Prelims … took second and was top collegiate vaulter at the Texas Invitational going 14-8 ¼ … indoors, was the third-place finisher at the NCAA Indoor Championships for her first All-America First Team honor, making 14-5 ¼ in the finals … upped her PR to 14-8 ¾ at the SEC Indoor Championships, taking third in a loaded field … cleared 14-3 ¼ at the Tyson Invitational for fifth … runner-up at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet with a clearance of 14-1 ¼.
2016 (At Kentucky): Broke school and freshman records in the pole vault in her first season and advanced through to the NCAA Outdoor Championships … at her first national championship, placed 21st in Eugene with a make of 13-3 ½ to earn All-America honorable mention … advanced to the final site of NCAAs by taking ninth at East Prelims with a make of 13-11 ¼ … her season-best and first 14-foot make came at the Virginia Challenge, winning at 14-1 ¼ … third at the LSU Invitational with a 13-9 ¾ clearance … won the Spec Towns Invitational at 13-9 ¼ … indoors, was eighth at the SEC Indoor Championships making 13-6 ¼ … an indoor season-best of 13-8 ¼ at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet, placing third … second in her collegiate debut, making 13-1 ½ at the 2015 Hoosier Open.
High School: An accomplished pole vaulter, having cleared 13 feet, and won at multiple high-level stages … won the 2014 and 2015 Maryland State pole vault titles indoors, going 13-4 in 2015 … won the 2014 Penn Relays pole vault title having cleared a PR 12’3.5” … also won the Baltimore County Championship in 2014 … 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.
Major Meets
2016 SEC Indoors – 8th, Pole Vault
2016 SEC Outdoors – NH, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Prelims – 9th, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Outdoors – 21st, Pole Vault (All-America Honorable Mention)
2017 SEC Indoors – 3rd, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Indoors – 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2017 SEC Outdoors – NH, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Prelims – 1st, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Outdoors – 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2017 USA Outdoors – NH, Pole Vault
2018 SEC Indoors – 1st, Pole Vault (SEC Champion)
2018 NCAA Indoors – 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2018 SEC Outdoors – 4th, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Prelims – 3rd, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Outdoors – 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2019 NCAA Prelims – 2nd, Pole Vault
2019 NCAA Outdoors – 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2019 USA Outdoors – 8th, Pole Vault
2019 Pan Am Games – 4th, Pole Vault
2020 USA Indoors - 3rd, Pole Vault
2020 MPSF - 1st, Pole Vault (MPSF Champion)
2020 NCAA Indoors - Pole Vault Qualifier (All-America)
Outdoors Bests
Pole Vault…….15-6 1/4 (Collegiate Outdoor Record)
Indoors Bests
Pole Vault…….15-5 (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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