Hall of Fame

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Jack Whitt

  • Class
    2013
  • Induction
    2020
  • Sport(s)
    Track & Field
JACK WHITT
2009-2013 // ORAL ROBERTS (MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD)
Seven-time All-American in the pole vault for Oral Roberts from 2009-13 … Won the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championship in the pole vault (5.65m), ORU’s third in program history … Three-time Summit League Indoor Champion in the pole vault (2010-12)  … Three-time Summit League Outdoor Champion in the pole vault  (2010-12) … Six-time All-Summit League honoree … Named the 2010 Summit League Indoor Newcomer of the Year and the 2010-12 Indoor Field Athlete of the Year … Named Indoor Athlete of the Week seven times and Summit League Athlete of the Month three times … Named Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year twice in his career (2011-12) … Also named Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week seven times … Selected to Team USA for the 2010 NACAC Games in Miami … Finished fifth at the U.S. National Championships in 2010 … Became the youngest champion at the Reno Pole Vault Summit in 2011 … Ranked seventh in the U.S. and 27th in the world at 21 years old in 2011 and sixth in the nation in 2012 … Named an alternate for Team USA at the 2012 Olympics … Inducted into Oral Roberts Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019.