2021 Track & Field Roster

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Erika Malaspina

  • Position Pole Vault
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School Pacific Collegiate School
  • Hometown Santa Cruz, Calif.
  • Major Mathematical and Computational Science

Biography

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades
  • All-American
  • Four-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (2018-21)
  • Two-time Pac-12 All-Academic first team (2018, 2019)
  • Two-time MPSF All-Academic (2018, 2019)
  • Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021)
Personal records (thru 2021 outdoors)
  • Pole vault: 13-11 (4.24m)
As a Fifth-Year Senior
Outdoors
  • Advanced to NCAA West Prelims
  • Season best was 13-5 1/4 (4.10m) to place fifth at Pac-12 Championships
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
  • Competed in one meet, the Championships at the Peak
As a Senior (2020)
Outdoors
  • Season canceled
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Competed once, at the UW Indoor Preview
As a Junior (2019)
Outdoors
  • Pac-12 All-Academic first team
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
Indoors
  • Moved to No. 3 on Stanford all-time pole vault list
  • Set PB of 13-11 (4.24m) in placing second at MPSF Championships
  • MPSF All-Academic
As a Sophomore (2018)
Outdoors
  • Placed 12th at the NCAA Championships, earning second-team All-America honors
  • Moved to No. 3 on Stanford's all-time list in the pole vault
  • Third at the Pac-12 Championships with a lifetime best (13-10, 4.22m), two inches off the winning height
  • Won the National Relays at Arkansas at 13-8 1/4 (4.17m)
  • Pac-12 All-Academic first team
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
Indoors
  • Moved to No. 4 on Stanford's all-time list in the pole vault
  • Had season best 13-2 1/4 (4.02m) at Power Five Invitational
  • MPSF All-Academic
As a Freshman (2017)
  • Moved to No. 9 on Stanford's all-time list in the pole vault
  • Had a season best of 12-11 1/2 (3.95 meters), from the Hornet Invitational in her collegiate debut
National/International Competition
  • Placed third at the 2016 U.S. junior national championships at 13-7 1/4 (4.14m)
  • Fifth at the 2017 U.S. junior championships
Prior to Stanford
  • Golden West Invitational winner at 13-6
  • Second at the California championships, at 13-8 while at Pacific Collegiate School
  • Placed sixth as a sophomore and fourth as a junior
  • Central Coast Section championship meet record holder, at 13-9
  • Two-time CCS champion
  • Broke the Santa Cruz County record seven times
  • Santa Cruz Sentinel Girls Scholar Athlete of the Year
  • Carried a 4.325 GPA
Personal
  • Traveled to China for three weeks in summer of 2018 as part of the Rubinstein-Bing Student-Athlete Civic Engagement Program, a partnership with Duke University
  • A former Level 9 gymnast
Career Results
Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2021 Outdoors (6) PV 13-5 1/4 (4.10) 5 (13-5 1/4) 22 (13-4 1/4) --
Indoors (1) PV -- -- -- --
2020 Outdoors (0) PV -- -- -- --
Indoors (1) PV 12-11 3/4 (3.96) -- -- --
2019 Outdoors (7) PV 13-2 1/2 (4.03) 6 (12-10 3/4) 42 (12-4 1/2) --
Indoors (6) PV 13-11 (4.24) 2 (13-11) -- --
2018 Outdoors (9) PV 13-10 (4.22) 3 (13-10) 11 (13-8 1/2) 12 (13-7 1/4)
Indoors (3) PV 13-2 1/4 (4.02) 5 (13-1 1/2) -- --
2017 Outdoors (7) PV 12-11 1/2 (3.95) 12 (12-4 1/2) -- --
Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --

Historical Player Information

  • 2017Freshman

    Pole vault
  • 2018Sophomore

    Pole vault
  • 2019Junior

    Pole Vault
  • 2020Senior

    Pole Vault
  • 2021Graduate Student

    Pole Vault