2023 Track & Field Roster

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Max Manson

Max Manson

  • Position
    Pole Vault
  • Class
    Senior
  • Hometown
    Superior, Colo.
  • High School
    Monarch
  • Major
    Earth and Planetary Sciences

Biography

TFRRS Performance Profile

In the News Career Accolades
  • Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (2022, 2023)
  • Five-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021; winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023)
Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)
  • Pole vault: 18-0 1/2 (5.50m)
As a Senior (2023)
Outdoors
  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the pole vault
  • Reached season-best of 17-6 1/2 (5.34) at a small summer meet in Boulder
  • Third consecutive top-5 Pac-12 placing in the pole vault
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
  • Achieved season best of 17-7 1/4 (5.37) in winning the Spokane Challenge
  • Reached 5.28 meters or higher four times
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
As a Junior (2022)
Outdoors
  • 21st at NCAA Championships
  • Reached lifetime best of 18-0 1/2 (5.50) at a small summer meet in Boulder, Colo.
  • The mark is No. 4 on Stanford's all-time outdoor list 
  • Pac-12 runner-up at 16-5 1/4 (5.01m) in rainy conditions in Eugene
  • Advanced to his first NCAA Championships meet by placing eighth at the NCAA West Prelims
  • Won the Payton Jordan Invite and Big Meet vs. Cal (17-5, 5.31m)
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
  • Won the Pac-12 Invitational equaling his lifetime best 17-7 3/4 (5.38m)
  • First achieved that mark at the Don Kirby Invite, placing fourth
  • The mark placed Manson No. 4 all-time at Stanford indoors
  • Won his first two meets of the season, at the UW Indoor Preview and Razorback Invite
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
As a Sophomore (2021)
Outdoors
  • Achieved personal best of 17-7 (5.35m) at the Above the Bar Elite pole vault competition on July 3
  • The mark placed him No. 5 at Stanford all-time 
  • Season best of 16-4 3/4 (5.00m) came at West Coast Classic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
  • Did not compete
As a Freshman (2020)
Outdoors
  • Season canceled
Indoors
  • Jumped 17-1 (5.21m) in collegiate debut, at UW Preview
  • No. 7 Stanford all-time indoors (pole vault).
  • No. 3 Stanford frosh all-time (pole vault).
National/International Competition
  • Third at 2019 Pan Am Under-20 Championships
  • Jumped 16-10 3/4 (5.15m) in San Jose, Costa Rica
  • Second at the 2019 USATF Under-20 Championships in the pole vault at 16-10 3/4 (5.14)
  • Fourth at the 2018 U.S. junior nationals
Prior to Stanford
  • Won the 2018 Colorado 5A championship by breaking a 32-year-old state meet pole vault record held by his father
  • Jumped 17-3 ½ (5.27 meters) to edge his father's mark by a half-inch
  • Also won 2019 state 5A title while at Monarch High School
  • 2019 New Balance Indoor Nationals champ at a PB 17-5 1/2 (5.32m)
  • 2017 Junior Olympic national champion
  • Placed third at the 2018 New Balance Indoor Nationals
  • Fourth at the 2018 U.S. junior nationals
Personal
  • Father, Pat Manson, was a two-time U.S. top-ranked vaulter and three-time Pan Am Games gold medalist
  • Mother, the former Amy Legacki, was a two-time Big Ten distance champion at Indiana
  • Sister, Mia, is a pole vaulter at Michigan and a champion climber 
  • Max is a champion climber, summiting all 53 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks by age 12
  • Colorado's 2017 Young Climber of the Year
  • Owned two divisional speed-climbing championships
  • Has his own You Tube channel: "Adventures to the Max"
Career Results
Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2023 Outdoors (9) PV 17-6 1/2 (5.34) 5 (17-3 1/2) 24 (17-0 3/4) --
Indoors (8) PV 17-7 1/4 (5.37) -- -- --
2022 Outdoors (9) PV 18-0 1/2 (5.50) 2 (16-5 1/4) 8 (17-4 1/4) 21 (16-10 3/4)
Indoors (5) PV 17-7 3/4 (5.38) -- -- --
2021 Outdoors (8) PV 17-7 (5.35) 5 (16-3 1/4) -- --
Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
2020 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
Indoors (3) PV 17-1 (5.21) 7 (16-9 1/2) -- --

Historical Player Information

  • 2020Freshman

    Pole Vault

  • 2021Sophomore

    Pole Vault

  • 2022Junior

    Pole Vault

  • 2023Senior

    Pole Vault