COLLEGIATE PERSONAL BESTS: PV – 13-1.5 (4.00m)
CAREER RECORDS, AWARDS, AND NOTES
AWARDS
1x Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (’24)
1x Academic All-Big Ten (Sp. ’24)
2024 Outdoor
Season: Set a season-best mark at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships.
Bison Outdoor Classic (4/12-14): Placed fourth in the pole vault with a 3.85m clearance. Big Ten Outdoor Championships (5/10-12): Cleared 13-0.25 (3.97m) at the conference meet, placing 11th in the Big Ten.
2024 Indoor
Season: Cleared four meters in the pole vault for the first time in her career.
Penn State National Open (1/26-27): Finished second in the pole vault with a 11-11/75 (3.65m) clearance. Sykes & Sabock Challenge (2/3): Set her PR with a 4.00m clearance to finish third. Big Ten Indoor Championshnips (2/23-24): Recorded her second-best clearance of the season (3.75m).
2023 Indoor
Season: Posted three top-three finishes in the pole vault during her freshman season.
Nittany Lion Challenge (1/14): Cleared the bar at 11-9 (3.58m) to place third in her first collegiate meet…Hokie Invitational (1/20-21): Finished third in the open division with a personal-best 12-6.75 (3.83m) clearance…Big Ten Indoor Championships (2/24-25): Posted her second-highest clearance of the season at 12-5.25 (3.79m) to finish 17th at her first Big Ten Championship meet.
PRIOR TO PENN STATE
High School PRs: Pole Vault - 13-0 outdoor, 12-6 indoor
Competed in pole vault for Glen Allen High School in indoor and outdoor...Named to Virginia All-State team all four years...Individual outdoor pole vault state champion 2021...Pole vault state runner up indoor 2022 and indoor 2020...3rd place pole vault outdoor 2019...New balance Freshman nationals runner up...Class 5A state meet record holder...Competed for Xtreme Heights Pol Vaulting Club.
PERSONAL
Parents are Kelly and Chris Baham...Mother Kelly won a national championship in gymnastics at University of Alabama in 1988...Has one sister, Maggie...Majoring in kinesiology...Born in Virginia.