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The official website of U.S. Olympic Pole Vaulter Sam Kendricks

Sam Kendricks embodies performance excellence. With an already record-breaking men’s pole vault resume that elevates and evolves as fast as his runway approaches, Sam is now the second highest ranked pole vaulter in the world and, through a selfless display of patriotism during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games (>10 million online views), one of America’s most admired athletes.

Sam’s career is earmarked by two memorable events: winning the bronze medal during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio and his phenomenal gold medal performance during the 2016 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, which shattered a 12-year record set by legendary Olympic Gold Medalist Tim Mack. Yet, Sam’s track and field accolades hardly began there. To wit, earlier in the year he set a personal best (19’5”/5.92 meters), winning at the IAAF World Challenge in Beijing, China; was a two-time NCAA Champion while at the University of Mississippi; and led Oxford High School to a MHSAA 5A State Championship. Aged just 24 years, Sam feels his best vaulting is yet to come.

When not soaring over crossbars in compression jump suits, he can be found donning military fatigues while serving his country as a second lieutenant in the 655th Transportation Company of the U.S. Army Reserves. Sam believes in a balanced lifestyle and strives to always be grateful and give back to his community. The mental and physical strength needed to compete at his sport’s highest level and lead men and women on the frontline serves him well as a motivational speaker for corporations, pole vault clubs and a variety of charity events.

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Sam Kendricks has the determination, creativity and unsurpassed passion to take the sport of pole vault to a higher level.

5.85 M

2016 Summer Olympic Games, Rio
Result: Bronze Medal

5.92 M

IAAF World Challenge, Beijing
Result: Gold Medal, Personal Best

5.91 M

2016 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials
Result: Gold Medal, Meet Record

2016 Olympic Bronze Medalist
Five-time NCAA All-American
Two-time NCAA Outdoor Champion at Ole Miss
Won SEC, NCAA and USA Championships in the same calendar year
Won the 2016 World University Games Championship in Kazan, Russia
In 2015, held both indoor and outdoor USA titles and won a spot on the World Championship team

Three-time USA Indoor Champion (2017, 2016 and 2015)
First American to win a Diamond League meet at the 2016 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix
Set a new meet record of 5.91 meters at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials
Won and set the meet record at the 2016 IAAF Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland
Won the 2016 Zurich Diamond League meet

Sam Kendricks was introduced to pole vaulting at an early age, no doubt in part to his father’s occupational love of the sport.

Scott Kendricks began coaching track and field at Oxford High School more than 20 years ago. Under Coach K’s leadership, the nationally recognized program won 11 state championships in a 14-year period. During that time, the program produced some of the top high school sprinters, high jumpers, relay teams and pole vaulters in the nation. When Sam came through the program, he produced a high school best for the State of Mississippi, which still stands today. Now retired from full-time coaching, Coach K’s watchful eye is sighted on Sam’s systemic progression and traveling across the globe to offer his expertise at pole vault clinics and seminars.