Jason Colwick is a two-time NCAA champion American

United States

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 pole vault

Pole vault

Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

er. His personal best vault is 5.72 metres, achieved in April 2009 in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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. He attended and competed for Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

 in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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Career

Colwick won the pole vault title at the 2009 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. He followed this with a win at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor championships with a vault of 5.70m.

Colwick was the first Rice pole vaulter to win a title since Dave Roberts in 1973, and the school's first NCAA Outdoor champion since Ryan Harlan's 2004 decathlon win.

Colwick is the recipient of the 2008-2009 Conference USA

Conference USA

Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports...

 Male Athlete of the Year award.

Personal

Colwick has stated that he looked to pole vaulting as something he would "enjoy more and be better at" than other sports he was participating in at the time.

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