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TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • All-American
  • MPSF pole vault champion (2019)
  • Four-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (2016, 2018-20)
  • Three-time MPSF All-Academic (2018-20)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020)
  • Two-time Pac-12 All-Academic second team (2018, 2019)

Personal Best (thru 2020)

  • Pole vault: 14-2 (4.32m)

As a Fifth-Year Senior (2020)
Outdoors

  • Season canceled
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Jumped season-best 13-3 3/4 (4.06m) at UW Preview

As a Senior (2019)
Outdoors

  • Team captain
  • 23rd in NCAA pole vault
  • Honorable mention All-America (pole vault)
  • Moved to No. 10 on 2 on Stanford all-time list in pole vault with a PB of 14-2 (4.32m) at NCAA West Prelims
  • Pac-12 All-Academic second team
  • Big Meet pole vault winner
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

Indoors

  • MPSF pole vault champion, at 13-11 (4.24m)
  • Moved to No. 2 on Stanford all-time pole vault list with a jump of 13-11 1/4 (4.25m)
  • MPSF All-Academic

As a Junior (2018)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to the NCAA Championships for the first time
  • Big Meet pole vault winner
  • Moved to No. 2 on Stanford's all-time list in the pole vault with a 14-0 1/2 (4.28m) to win the Payton Jordan Invitational
  • Finished among the top two in seven of her nine meets
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 All-Academic second team

Indoors

  • Moved to No. 2 on Stanford's all-time list in the pole vault with a jump of 13-5 1/4 (4.10m) at the Don Kirby Invite
  • MPSF All-Academic

As a Sophomore (2017)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete.

Indoors

  • Did not compete.

As a Freshman (2016)
Outdoors

  • Big Meet pole vault winner, at 12-5 1/2
  • Won the invitational section of the Stanford Invitational at 13-0 1/4
  • Earned season best of 13-5 1/4 to win the Hornet Invitational in her collegiate outdoor debut
  • Ended season tied for No. 3 on Stanford's all-time performers' list
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic team

Indoors

  • Ranks No. 3 all-time indoors at Stanford with her season-best 13-4 1/4 to place fifth at the Don Kirby Elite in Albuquerque.
  • Also ranks No. 3 among Stanford freshmen all-time, indoors and outdoors.
  • Placed seventh at MPSF Championships at 12-8.
  • Jumped 12-6 1/4 in her collegiate debut, placing fourth at the UW Indoor Preview.

Prior to Stanford

  • Won two California state pole vault titles, while at Santa Margarita Catholic High School
  • Won the 2015 crown at 13-3 and won in 2013 at 13-3 3/4
  • Set national freshman (13-3) and sophomore (13-8) class records
  • Jumped 14-0 3/4 as a junior
  • Named Orange County Female Athlete of the Year in 2013, during which she also won the Trinity League title in the 100 meters
  • Four-time CIF-Southern Section Division III pole vault champion
  • Two-time CIF-Southern Section Masters Meet champion
  • A three-year captain at Santa Margarita Catholic
  • 2014-15 All-USA second team selection by USA Today

Personal

  • Her parents, Andrew and Michele, attended Stanford, as did her grandfather, brother and cousin

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2020Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (4)PV13-3 3/4 (4.06)6 (12-7 1/2)----
2019Outdoors (8)PV14-2 (4.32)--7 (14-2)23 (13-3 1/2)
Indoors (7)PV13-11 1/4 (4.25)1 (13-11)----
2018Outdoors (9)PV14-0 1/2 (4.28)2 (13-10)1 (13-8 1/2)NH
Indoors (4)PV13-5 1/4 (4.10)3 (13-1 1/2)----
2017Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (0)----------
2016Outdoors (6)PV13-5 1/4 (4.10)NH----
Indoors (5)PV13-4 1/4 (4.07)7 (12-8)----
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2015-16
Pole Vault
Kaitlyn_Merritt_DB_10042017_686
2018-19
Pole Vault
Kaitlyn_Merritt_JT_100318_405
2019-20
Pole Vault
Kaitlyn_Merritt_Track_Field_KAH_101019_187
2020-21
Pole Vault