2018NCAAThur_35

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

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2021Outdoors (6)PV13-5 1/4 (4.10)5 (13-5 1/4)22 (13-4 1/4)--
Indoors (1)PV--------
2020Outdoors (0)PV--------
Indoors (1)PV12-11 3/4 (3.96)------
2019Outdoors (7)PV13-2 1/2 (4.03)6 (12-10 3/4)42 (12-4 1/2)--
Indoors (6)PV13-11 (4.24)2 (13-11)----
2018Outdoors (9)PV13-10 (4.22)3 (13-10)11 (13-8 1/2)12 (13-7 1/4)
Indoors (3)PV13-2 1/4 (4.02)5 (13-1 1/2)----
2017Outdoors (7)PV12-11 1/2 (3.95)12 (12-4 1/2)----
Indoors (0)----------
Malaspina_Erika
2017-18
Pole Vault
Erika_Malaspina_DB_10042017_698
2018-19
Pole Vault
Erika_Malaspina_JT_100318_346
2019-20
Pole Vault
Erika_Malaspina_MG_022132021_222
2021-22
Pole Vault