COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — University of New Mexico redshirt senior Logan Pflibsen has been named Mountain West Men’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week for meets contested from April 3-4.
Pflibsen, out of Streator, Ill., cleared 17 feet, 4 ½ inches in the pole vault at the Don Kirby Tailwind Invitational this past Saturday. That mark, which not only won the event by nearly two feet, is also a new personal record. His previous best outdoors of 17-1 ½ (5.22) was set in 2011.
He is now tied for fourth in New Mexico history, and ranks second in the Mountain West this year by a centimeter. Additionally, his mark is the 11th-best in the NCAA this year.
This honor is the first ever for Pflibsen. Overall, it’s the first outright athlete-of-the-week honor for New Mexico since April 2013, and it’s the first time a New Mexico vaulter has earn such an honor outdoors since Derek Mackel a decade ago in 2005.
New Mexico returns to action Friday when it hosts Air Force, Wyoming and New Mexico at the New Mexico Quadrangular at the Great Friends of UNM Track & Field Stadium.