Career Honors & Awards
• Honorable Mention All-American (2025)
• NCAA West First Round Qualifier (2021, 2022, 2024, 2025)
• Summit League Outdoor Champion (2025)
• All-Summit League Indoor (2025, 2022)
• All-Summit League Outdoor (2024)
• Summit League Field Athlete of the Week (5/6/25, 4/22/25, 5/9/22)
• Summit League Honor Roll (2023-24, 2022-23)
Career Bests
2024-25
Indoor Track & Field
Summit League Runner-up in the pole vault at 17-3… cleared 16-10 ¾ for third at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational and for fourth at the SDSU Holiday… took fourth at the Tyson Invitational in 16-6 ¾ and at the DeLoss Dodds Invitational at 16-6… cleared 16 feet in every meet and placed inside the top 10 in every meet.
Outdoor Track & Field
Honorable Mention all-American with an 18
th place finish at the NCAA Championships, clearing 17-5 ¾… won the Summit League pole vault title at 18-0 ½… NCAA West First Round Qualifier… won the Mt. SAC Relays pole vault at 17-9 and the USD Tune Up at 17-10 ½… cleared 17-0 in all but one competition during the season.
2023-24
Indoor Track & Field
Placed fifth in the pole vault at the Summit League Championships with a height of 17-1 ½ (5.22m)…member of the Coyotes’ Summit League Championship title-winning team…recorded a season's best 17-1 ¾ at the Nebraska Tune-Up...placed inside the top-five five times during the season.
Outdoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors in the pole vault with a runner-up height of 17-0 at the Summit League Championships...competed at the NCAA West First Rounds, recording a height of 16-7 ½...recorded a season's best 17-1 (5.21m) to place second at the USD Invite...won the Mount Marty Twilight's pole vault competition with a height of 16-4 ¾...had five top-five finishes.
2022-23
Indoor Track & Field
Placed fifth in the pole vault at the Summit League Championships with a height of 16-2 (4.93m) … member of the Coyotes’ Summit League Championship title-winning team … vaulted a season-best height of 17-1 1/2 (5.22m) at the Nebraska Tune-Up for third place ... finished runner-up in the pole vault at the South Dakota Kickoff … clocked a season-best time of 8.41 seconds for the 60-meter hurdles at the USD Alumni Meet … tallied 11 top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll.
Outdoor Track & Field
Did not compete.
2021-22
Indoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors in the pole vault … finished runner-up in the pole vault and took 10th in the 60-meter hurdles at the Summit League Championships … cleared a season best height of 17-3 at the Nebraska Adidas Classic, finishing second in the field … moved to seventh on the Coyote Top 10 in the pole vault with that mark of 17-3 … clocked a season-best time of 8.31 seconds for the 60 hurdles at the SDSU Holiday Open … finished runner-up in the pole vault at the Ichabod Mid-Week Challenge in 16-11 ½ … notched 10 top-10 finishes during the season.
Outdoor Track & Field
Qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary in the pole vault … placed seventh in the 110-meter hurdles at the Summit League Championships … cleared a season best 17-5 ¾ to finish as the top collegian and second overall in the pole vault at the USD Twilight … named Summit League Field Athlete of the Week (5/9) following the performance … moved to seventh on the Coyote Top 10 in the pole vault with that mark of 17-5 ¾ … posted a season-best time of 14.64 for the 110 hurdles in the preliminaries of the Summit championship … took third at the Drake Relays with a clearance of 17-1 in the pole vault … tallied 11 top-10 finishes during the spring.
2020-21
Indoor Track & Field
Placed sixth in the pole vault at the Summit League Championships with a clearance of 15-10 (4.83m) … also finished 11th in the 60-meter hurdles at the league meet … vaulted an indoor best of 16-5 ¼ (5.01m) at both the USD Invitational and the Dakota Realty Invitational … finished runner-up in the 60-meter hurdles at the USD Invitational … clocked a season-best of 8.42 seconds for the 60 hurdles in a third-place finish at the Dakota Realty Invitational … took third in the pole vault at the SDSU Holiday Invitational … tallied 12 top-10 finishes during the season.
Outdoor Track & Field
Placed fifth in the pole vault and sixth in the 110-meter hurdles at the Summit League Championships … vaulted a personal best of 17-0 ¾ (5.20m) at the Summit meet … qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary in the pole vault ... clocked 14.91 seconds for the 110-meter hurdles in the final of the league meet … tied a season best of 14.82 seconds in the 110 hurdle preliminaries … won the pole vault at the Bobcat Invitational with a jump of 16-8 ¾ (5.10m) … initially clocked 14.82 seconds in the preliminaries at the South Dakota Challenge, going on to run a wind-aided final of 14.79 seconds … finished runner-up in the pole vault at the South Dakota Tune-Up … took third in the vault with a height of 16-8 ¾ (5.10m) at the Sioux City Relays … captured one event title and tallied eight top-10 finishes during the season … member of the Coyotes’ nationally second-ranked men’s pole vault squad during the season.
Prep
The pole vault runner-up at the 2019 Ohio Division I Track and Field Championships ... vaulted a personal best of 16 feet, 2 inches, to lead Whitmer High School to a team runner-up finish ... the height also set a Whitmer High School record ... his senior track and field season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic ... placed third at the state meet as a sophomore ... holds personal bests of 6-5 in the high jump and 14.8 seconds in the high hurdles ... a three-sport letterwinner ... also played on the Panthers' football and basketball teams.
Personal
Son of Larry and Mary Beth Young ... psychology major.
