2014-15
2015 Indoors: Competed at six meets …Opened with an eighth-place finish in the pole vault at the Air Force Open … Took ninth in the long jump and 12th in the shot put at the Lobo Open … Cleared 15-9 3/4 to place ninth in the pole vault at the New Mexico Team Invitational, adding a 12th-place finish in the shot put … First heptathlon came at the New Mexico Classic, where he finished ninth … Turned in solid performances in the long jump (22-3), shot put (39-7 1/4) and high jump (5-10 3/4) in the New Mexico Classic pentathlon … Posted a clearance of 15-11 in the pole vault at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational … Finished fourth in the pentathlon at the Mountain West Indoor Championships with a total of 5,240 points … Registered strong marks in the long jump (22-7 3/4), shot put (41-3), high jump (6 3/4) and pole vault (16-2 3/4) en route to his 5,240 points.
2015 Outdoors: Saw action at six meets … Won the shot put at the New Mexico Quadrangular with a toss of 40-10 1/4 … Also second in the pole vault at the New Mexico Quadrangular (14-9) … Placed 13th in his first decathlon, using strong performances in the 100 (11.38), shot put (40-4 3/4) and pole vault (14-9) to amass 6,598 points … Took second in the 110 hurdles (15.80*) and discus (119-10) at the UTEP Twilight … Took fourth in the decathlon at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships, finishing with a personal-record 6,844 points … Posted strong finishes in the shot put (40-6), high jump (6 3/4), 110 hurdles (15.90) and pole vault (14-11) in the decathlon at the MW meet.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
A decathlete from the Netherlands … Owns personal record of 6,719 points in the decathlon and 4,695 in the heptathlon … Also owns personal bests of 8.71 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, 6 feet, 1 1/2 inches (1.87 meters) in the high jump and 23 feet (7.01) in the long jump.
* indicates a performance that has been adjusted based on the NCAA altitude conversion protocol