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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 USTFCCCAย 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
>>ย 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 Gruverย 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 Womenโs Field Athlete of the Year, the first Husky to win a USTFCCCA national award โฆ 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 โฆ 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 โฆ at the UW Indoor Preview, broke the Dempsey Record with a make of 15-3 1/2 โฆ won the MPSF Championship and broke the meet record with a clearance of 14-7 1/4 โฆ also made 14-9 to win the UW Invitational โฆ earned her first Academic All-America honor, named to the First Team by CoSIDA โฆ 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 โฆ 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 โฆ 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 โฆ 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 โฆ redshirted the indoor season with plans to compete indoors in 2020 โฆ 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 โฆ a semifinalist for the Bowerman Award, the top award in collegiate track โฆ won the NCAA title despite missing a month and a half outdoors due to injury, coming back just one meet before the SEC Championships โฆ 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 ยผ โฆ earned her fourth All-America First Team honor with the win โฆ advanced through East Prelims making 13-8 ยฝ โฆ was fourth at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a make of 13-11 ยผ โฆ indoors, was the NCAA third-place medalist for the second year in a row, making 14-9 ยฝ at the NCAA Indoor Championships for All-America First Team once again โฆ won the SEC Indoor Championship with the second-best clearance in NCAA indoor history, as she jumped a PR of 15-3 ยพ, setting an SEC record โฆ won the Rod McCravy Memorial with another huge make of 15-3 โฆ another 15-foot clearance, going 15-1, at the Kentucky Invitational โฆ opened her year making 14-1 ยผ at the Hoosier Open in December of 2017.
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2017 (At Kentucky): Capped an historic sophomore season by becoming Kentuckyโs first womenโs pole vault NCAA Champion as she made a then-PR of 14-9 at the NCAA finals at Hayward Field in Eugene โฆ cleared the winning bar on her first attempt and had three other first attempt clearances and just one second-attempt make at 14-5 ยผ โฆ qualified for the USATF Outdoor Championships but did not clear her opening height โฆ advanced to NCAAs by making 13-9 ยผ to take first at East Prelims โฆ took second and was top collegiate vaulter at the Texas Invitational going 14-8 ยผ โฆ indoors, was the third-place finisher at the NCAA Indoor Championships for her first All-America First Team honor, making 14-5 ยผ in the finals โฆ upped her PR to 14-8 ยพ at the SEC Indoor Championships, taking third in a loaded field โฆ cleared 14-3 ยผ at the Tyson Invitational for fifth โฆ runner-up at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet with a clearance of 14-1 ยผ.
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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 โฆ at her first national championship, placed 21st in Eugene with a make of 13-3 ยฝ to earn All-America honorable mention โฆ advanced to the final site of NCAAs by taking ninth at East Prelims with a make of 13-11 ยผ โฆ her season-best and first 14-foot make came at the Virginia Challenge, winning at 14-1 ยผ โฆ third at the LSU Invitational with a 13-9 ยพ clearance โฆ won the Spec Towns Invitational at 13-9 ยผ โฆ indoors, was eighth at the SEC Indoor Championships making 13-6 ยผ โฆ an indoor season-best of 13-8 ยผ at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet, placing third โฆ second in her collegiate debut, making 13-1 ยฝ 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 โฆ won the 2014 and 2015 Maryland State pole vault titles indoors, going 13-4 in 2015 โฆ won the 2014 Penn Relays pole vault title having cleared a PR 12โ3.5โ โฆ also won the Baltimore County Championship in 2014 โฆ 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 โ 8th, Pole Vault
2016 SEC Outdoors โ NH, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Prelims โ 9th, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Outdoors โ 21st, Pole Vault (All-America Honorable Mention)
2017 SEC Indoors โ 3rd, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Indoors โ 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2017 SEC Outdoors โ NH, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Prelims โ 1st, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Outdoors โ 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2017 USA Outdoors โ NH, Pole Vault
2018 SEC Indoors โ 1st, Pole Vault (SEC Champion)
2018 NCAA Indoors โ 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2018 SEC Outdoors โ 4th, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Prelims โ 3rd, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Outdoors โ 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2019 NCAA Prelimsย โ 2nd, Pole Vault
2019 NCAA Outdoorsย โ 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2019 USA Outdoorsย โ 8th, Pole Vault
2019 Pan Am Gamesย โ 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 Vaultโฆโฆ.15-6 1/4 (Collegiate Outdoor Record)
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Indoors Bests
Pole Vaultโฆโฆ.15-5ย (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 USTFCCCAย 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
>>ย 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 Gruverย 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 Womenโs Field Athlete of the Year, the first Husky to win a USTFCCCA national award โฆ 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 โฆ 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 โฆ at the UW Indoor Preview, broke the Dempsey Record with a make of 15-3 1/2 โฆ won the MPSF Championship and broke the meet record with a clearance of 14-7 1/4 โฆ also made 14-9 to win the UW Invitational โฆ earned her first Academic All-America honor, named to the First Team by CoSIDA โฆ 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 โฆ 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 โฆ 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 โฆ 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 โฆ redshirted the indoor season with plans to compete indoors in 2020 โฆ 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 โฆ a semifinalist for the Bowerman Award, the top award in collegiate track โฆ won the NCAA title despite missing a month and a half outdoors due to injury, coming back just one meet before the SEC Championships โฆ 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 ยผ โฆ earned her fourth All-America First Team honor with the win โฆ advanced through East Prelims making 13-8 ยฝ โฆ was fourth at the SEC Outdoor Championships with a make of 13-11 ยผ โฆ indoors, was the NCAA third-place medalist for the second year in a row, making 14-9 ยฝ at the NCAA Indoor Championships for All-America First Team once again โฆ won the SEC Indoor Championship with the second-best clearance in NCAA indoor history, as she jumped a PR of 15-3 ยพ, setting an SEC record โฆ won the Rod McCravy Memorial with another huge make of 15-3 โฆ another 15-foot clearance, going 15-1, at the Kentucky Invitational โฆ opened her year making 14-1 ยผ at the Hoosier Open in December of 2017.
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2017 (At Kentucky): Capped an historic sophomore season by becoming Kentuckyโs first womenโs pole vault NCAA Champion as she made a then-PR of 14-9 at the NCAA finals at Hayward Field in Eugene โฆ cleared the winning bar on her first attempt and had three other first attempt clearances and just one second-attempt make at 14-5 ยผ โฆ qualified for the USATF Outdoor Championships but did not clear her opening height โฆ advanced to NCAAs by making 13-9 ยผ to take first at East Prelims โฆ took second and was top collegiate vaulter at the Texas Invitational going 14-8 ยผ โฆ indoors, was the third-place finisher at the NCAA Indoor Championships for her first All-America First Team honor, making 14-5 ยผ in the finals โฆ upped her PR to 14-8 ยพ at the SEC Indoor Championships, taking third in a loaded field โฆ cleared 14-3 ยผ at the Tyson Invitational for fifth โฆ runner-up at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet with a clearance of 14-1 ยผ.
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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 โฆ at her first national championship, placed 21st in Eugene with a make of 13-3 ยฝ to earn All-America honorable mention โฆ advanced to the final site of NCAAs by taking ninth at East Prelims with a make of 13-11 ยผ โฆ her season-best and first 14-foot make came at the Virginia Challenge, winning at 14-1 ยผ โฆ third at the LSU Invitational with a 13-9 ยพ clearance โฆ won the Spec Towns Invitational at 13-9 ยผ โฆ indoors, was eighth at the SEC Indoor Championships making 13-6 ยผ โฆ an indoor season-best of 13-8 ยผ at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet, placing third โฆ second in her collegiate debut, making 13-1 ยฝ 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 โฆ won the 2014 and 2015 Maryland State pole vault titles indoors, going 13-4 in 2015 โฆ won the 2014 Penn Relays pole vault title having cleared a PR 12โ3.5โ โฆ also won the Baltimore County Championship in 2014 โฆ 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 โ 8th, Pole Vault
2016 SEC Outdoors โ NH, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Prelims โ 9th, Pole Vault
2016 NCAA Outdoors โ 21st, Pole Vault (All-America Honorable Mention)
2017 SEC Indoors โ 3rd, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Indoors โ 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2017 SEC Outdoors โ NH, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Prelims โ 1st, Pole Vault
2017 NCAA Outdoors โ 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2017 USA Outdoors โ NH, Pole Vault
2018 SEC Indoors โ 1st, Pole Vault (SEC Champion)
2018 NCAA Indoors โ 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2018 SEC Outdoors โ 4th, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Prelims โ 3rd, Pole Vault
2018 NCAA Outdoors โ 1st, Pole Vault (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
2019 NCAA Prelimsย โ 2nd, Pole Vault
2019 NCAA Outdoorsย โ 3rd, Pole Vault (All-America First Team)
2019 USA Outdoorsย โ 8th, Pole Vault
2019 Pan Am Gamesย โ 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 Vaultโฆโฆ.15-6 1/4 (Collegiate Outdoor Record)
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Indoors Bests
Pole Vaultโฆโฆ.15-5ย (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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