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Paige Sommers
- Position:
- Pole Vault
- Height:
- 6-0
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- Westlake HS
- Hometown:
- Westlake Village, Calif.
- Previous School:
- Duke
Duke (2022-25)
Earned four letters at Duke in Durham, N.C., competing exclusively in the pole vault ... Helped the Blue Devils to a team championships at the 2024 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships ... Also won a team title at the 2021 ACC Indoor Championships, and helped Duke to a runner-up result at the 2022 Outdoor ACCs ... Qualified for NCAA East Regionals in both 2023 and 2024 ... Had a high clearance of 4.30m (14-1.25) at Duke, accomplished at the 2023 Duke Invitational ... Totaled three event wins during her time with the Blue Devils ... Was a fixture in both the Outdoor and Indoor ACC Championships, highlighted by a fifth-place finish in the 2024 ACC Indoor Championships (4.13m / 13-6.5) ... Best result at Outdoor ACCs came in 2023, when she was eighth (3.93m / 12-10.75) ... Did not compete during her senior season.ย
High School
Earned four varsity letters on the track and field team at Westlake High School in Westlake, Calif. ...2020 Gatorade Player of the Year for California Girl's Track & Field ... Competed in the pole vault as well as the high jump and 100m hurdles ... Also earned three varsity letters on the cheer squad ... All-time national high school record holder in the pole vault (14-9) ... Had the highest clearance of any high school pole vaulter in the country in both 2020 and 2021 ... All-time California state record-holder ... Holds USATF national records at the U-18 and U-20 levels ... 2021 Los Angeles Daily News Girl's Athlete of the Year ... 2019 Ventura County Star Track & Field Athlete of the Year ... 2018 Milesplit California Top Freshman Girl of the Spring Season ... Graduated with high school PRs of 14-9 in the pole vault and 5-6 in the high jump.ย
Personal
Paige Alexis Sommers was born in 2003 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. to parents John and Jennifer ... Has a younger brother, Cade, who also vaults at UCLA ... Has an older sister, Brooke ... Earned a B.A. in sociology at Duke, with a minor in medical sociology and a certificate in markets and management studies ...ย Participating in the marketing certificate program at UCLA ... Aspires to compete professionally in the pole vault, while working in the marketing or sports industries ... Decided to attend UCLA because of "the amazing academics and athletics. Coach Tate Curran was a major factor, as well as growing up in a Bruin household since both my parents went here" ... Hobbies and interests outside of track include spending time with family, waterskiing, snow skiing, creating DIY crafts, and going on outdoors adventures around California ... Her father, John, was a pole vaulter at UCLA from 1989-1994 and was coached by Anthony Curran, father of current UCLA pole vault coach Tate Curran ... Her aunt Caroline was a high jumper and cheerleader at UCLA ... Her uncles, Kevin Driscoll and Chris Driscoll, were water polo players at UC Santa Barbara ... Her mother Jennifer earned a B.S. in biochemistry from UCLA and returned to earn her MBA at UCLA Anderson School of Management.ย
Earned four letters at Duke in Durham, N.C., competing exclusively in the pole vault ... Helped the Blue Devils to a team championships at the 2024 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships ... Also won a team title at the 2021 ACC Indoor Championships, and helped Duke to a runner-up result at the 2022 Outdoor ACCs ... Qualified for NCAA East Regionals in both 2023 and 2024 ... Had a high clearance of 4.30m (14-1.25) at Duke, accomplished at the 2023 Duke Invitational ... Totaled three event wins during her time with the Blue Devils ... Was a fixture in both the Outdoor and Indoor ACC Championships, highlighted by a fifth-place finish in the 2024 ACC Indoor Championships (4.13m / 13-6.5) ... Best result at Outdoor ACCs came in 2023, when she was eighth (3.93m / 12-10.75) ... Did not compete during her senior season.ย
High School
Earned four varsity letters on the track and field team at Westlake High School in Westlake, Calif. ...2020 Gatorade Player of the Year for California Girl's Track & Field ... Competed in the pole vault as well as the high jump and 100m hurdles ... Also earned three varsity letters on the cheer squad ... All-time national high school record holder in the pole vault (14-9) ... Had the highest clearance of any high school pole vaulter in the country in both 2020 and 2021 ... All-time California state record-holder ... Holds USATF national records at the U-18 and U-20 levels ... 2021 Los Angeles Daily News Girl's Athlete of the Year ... 2019 Ventura County Star Track & Field Athlete of the Year ... 2018 Milesplit California Top Freshman Girl of the Spring Season ... Graduated with high school PRs of 14-9 in the pole vault and 5-6 in the high jump.ย
Personal
Paige Alexis Sommers was born in 2003 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. to parents John and Jennifer ... Has a younger brother, Cade, who also vaults at UCLA ... Has an older sister, Brooke ... Earned a B.A. in sociology at Duke, with a minor in medical sociology and a certificate in markets and management studies ...ย Participating in the marketing certificate program at UCLA ... Aspires to compete professionally in the pole vault, while working in the marketing or sports industries ... Decided to attend UCLA because of "the amazing academics and athletics. Coach Tate Curran was a major factor, as well as growing up in a Bruin household since both my parents went here" ... Hobbies and interests outside of track include spending time with family, waterskiing, snow skiing, creating DIY crafts, and going on outdoors adventures around California ... Her father, John, was a pole vaulter at UCLA from 1989-1994 and was coached by Anthony Curran, father of current UCLA pole vault coach Tate Curran ... Her aunt Caroline was a high jumper and cheerleader at UCLA ... Her uncles, Kevin Driscoll and Chris Driscoll, were water polo players at UC Santa Barbara ... Her mother Jennifer earned a B.S. in biochemistry from UCLA and returned to earn her MBA at UCLA Anderson School of Management.ย
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