Rachel Baxter

  • Rachel
  • Baxter

  • Event
    Pole Vault
  • Class
    Freshman
  • High School/Other
    Canyon
  • Hometown
    Orange, Calif.

Updated: May 31, 2018

2018 outdoor: Punched her ticket to Eugene at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds, clearing a height of 4.18 meters (13 feet, 8.5 inches) in the pole vault ... Finished third in at the ACC Outdoor Championships with a height of 4.35 meters (14 feet, 3.25 inches) ... Posted a collegiate personal best at the National Relay Championships with a mark of 4.36 meters (14 feet, 3.5 inches) to finish third … Placed fifth at the Mt. Sac Relays with a mark of 4.20 meters (13 feet, 9.25 inches) … Set a then-collegiate personal best at Tennessee Relays with a mark of 4.30 meters (14 feet, 1.25 inches) to claim first … In her first outdoor event, turned in a mark of 4.15 meters (13 feet, 7.25 inches) at the Home Depot Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays to finish fourth.

2018 indoor: Finished 11th in the pole vault at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships with a height of 4.21 meters (13 feet, 9.75 inches) … Set an indoor-collegiate career best at the ACC Championships with a mark of 4.30 meters (14 feet, 1.25 inches), placing second … Posted a height of 3.98 meters (13 feet, 0.75 inches) at the Akron Invitational, earning fourth place ... Placed second for the third consecutive week, vaulting a height of 4.25 meters (13 feet, 11.25 inches) at the Bob Pollack Invitational … Turned in a mark of 4.10 meters (13 ft., 5.25 in.) at the Gladstein Invitational to place second … In her first collegiate meet, posted a second-place finish at the Nittany Lion Challenge with a mark of 4.27 meters (14 ft, 0 in.).

High school: Graduated from Canyon … Four-time letterwinner for coach BJ Vandrovec … 2016 Orange County Female Athlete of the Year … Three-time All-County (Orange County) track and field team honoree … Crestview League MVP, Girls Athlete of the Year and Field Athlete of the Year … Two-time Canyon Female Athlete of the Year … OCADA Crestview League Female Athlete of the Year … Two-time (2016, 2017) high school All-American No. 1 girls’ pole vault by Track & Field News Magazine … Two-time CIF State Champion in pole vault … Set the NFHS, California, Orange County and Canyon High School record pole vault mark … Two-time USA Junior Champion … Won the 2017 Pan American Junior Championship … Carried a 4.2 GPA and was a National Honor Society member.

Personal: Born April 5, 1999 … Daughter of Tony and Sandy Baxter … Has a sister, Caitlin … Majoring in university studies.

Baxter's Track and Field Career Bests

Indoor Outdoor
PV - 4.30 meters (14 feet, 1.25 inches), ACC Championships (2018) PV – 4.36m (14 feet, 3.5 inches), National Relay Championships (2018)