Erica Bartolina

Career Highlights

: 3^rd at 2008 Olympic Trials

Returning to Hayward Field for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, the stadium where she won her High School state title in 1997, Bartolina qualified for her first Olympic Team, setting her personal best three times along the way to a third place finish...In 2005, after setting several personal bests with her husband as her coach, she took a fall and broke two vertebrae in her back...won two Big 12 titles while at Texas A&M...was the first female pole vaulter at Texas A&M...In high school, won one state title as a junior in 1997 and was in the top three all four years...began vaulting at the age of 14, with the advice of her high school track coach, former world record holder Dennis Phillips...Lost her right eye at four months old in a car accident...formerly Erica Boren, married Southeast Louisiana State coach Mike Bartolina...grew up on a sheep farm in Kings Valley, Ore...website is http://www.ericabartolina.com/.

Competition Results:
2008: 3^rd at Olympic Trials (4.55m/14-11)...1^st at Harry Jerome Int'l (4.35m/14-3.25)...2^nd at Victoria Int'l (4.25m/13-11.25)
2007: 12^th at USA Outdoors (4.20m/13-9.25)...5^th at USA Indoors (4.40m/14-5.25)...1^st at Gill Factory Vault (4.35m/14-3.25)...best of 4.40m/14-5.25i.
2006: 1^st at LSU Alumni Gold (4.30m/14-1.25)...1^st at Tiger Classic (4.10m/13-5.25)...NH at USA Outdoors...best of 4.30m/14-1.25.
2005: 4^th at USA Indoors (4.30m/14-1.25)...2^nd at
Simplot Games (4.36m/14-3.5)...Drake Relays (NH)...8^th at Tyson Invitational (4.15m/13-7.25)...best of 4.36m/14-3.5.
2004: 9^th in qualifying at Olympic Trials (4.10m/13-5.25)...3^rd at Atascadero (4.40m/14-5.25)...5^th at Modesto (4.05m/13-3.5)...2^nd at Texas A&M Invite (3.95m/12-11.5)...best of 4.40m/14-5.25.
2003: 2^nd at Kansas Relays (3.96m/12-11.75)...2^nd at Texas Invite (3.95m/12-11.5)...best of 3.96m/12-11.75).
2002: 11^th at NCAA Outdoors (3.90m/12-9.5)...15^th at NCAA Indoors (3.95m/12-11.5)...Big 12 champion (3.98m/13-0.75)...1^st at Longhorn Invite (4.05m/13-3.5)...2^nd at Texas Relays (3.80m/12-5.5)...best of 4.05m/13-3.5.
2001: Big 12 Indoor champion (3.91m/12-10)...2^nd at Dr. Pepper Invite (3.65m/11-11.34)...2^nd at Tellez (3.85m/12-7.5)...2^nd at All Comers (4.02m/13-2.25)...best of 4.02m/13-2.25.