Nico Weiler (Los Gatos; Harvard) wins pole vault

Allston, Massachusetts
Feb. 23-24

Senior Nico Weiler (Los Gatos HS, CA; Harvard) won the Heps pole vault at 17-7 3/4 (5.38).

Nico Weiler
Year: Junior
Hometown: Stuttgart, Germany
High School: Los Gatos (Calif.)
Position: Pole Vault
Major: Human Development & Regenerative Biology
Honors and Awards
Second-team All-Ivy League (indoors 2009)
IC4A Champion (indoors 2009)
Robert W. Hadwood Pole Vault Award (2009)
USTFCCCA Male Field Athlete of the Year, Northeast region (2009)
First-team All-ivy Leage (outdoors 2009)

Personal Bests
100 meters - 11.63 (O)
Pole Vault - 5.38m (O) (First all-time)
Long Jump - 6.85m (O)

2011-12
Had wins in the pole vault at the Saturday Night at the Armory II meet (5.00m), Battle of Beantown (4.95m), HYP meet (5.30m) and the Ivy League meet (5.30m) ... Earned All-Ivy first team with his win at the Ivy indoor meet ... Finished in second place in pole vault at Texas Southern Relays ... Won the pole vault at North Florida Invitational (5.30m), George Davis Invitational (5.20m), Harvard-Yale dual meet (5.30m), and Larry Ellis Invitational (5.31m) ... Placed second in long jump (6.85m) at Harvard-Yale dual meet ... Marked a personal best and won the pole vault (5.38m) at ECAC/IC4A Championships ... Placed third in pole vault (5.32m) at NCAA Preliminary Round.

2010-11
Finished second in the pole vault at the Battle of Beantown with a clearance of 4.80 meters ... Finished fourth in the pole vault at Indoor Heps with a 4.80-meter clearance ... Won the pole vault with a 4.85 mark at the Meeting of the Minds and placed fourth in the long jump with a 6.64-meter mark ... Took third in the pole vault at the Sam Howell Invitational with a 4.80-meter clearance ... Won the long jump (6.64) and the pole vault (5.01) at the HY Meet.

2008-09
Earned second-team All-Ivy honors ... Won the pole vault at the IC4A Indoor Championships ... Placed second in the pole vault at the Indoor Heptagonal Championships ... Won the pole vault in his collegiate debut at the Husky Winter Carnival ... Won the pole vault at the Battle of Beantown ... Won the pole vault at the HYP meet and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships by clearing 5.20 meters, which is second best all-time at Harvard ... Named COOP student-athlete of the week (Feb. 16) for winning the pole vault at the HYP meet ... Won the pole vault at the 2009 European Athletics Junior World Championships … Ranks first in the Harvard annals for pole vaulting at 5.36 meters … Finished sixth in the pole vault at the NCAA Championships, with a clearance of 5.35 meters … Earned All-America honors, only the second Harvard male vaulter to earn such honors ... Named USTFCCCA Male Field Athlete of the Year for the Northeast region … Received first-team All-Ivy League honors with a first-place finish in the pole vault at the Heptagonal Championships … Won the pole vault at the Harvard-Yale dual meet … Set a meet record in pole vault at the Harvard-Yale vs. Oxford-Cambridge meet, with a mark of 5.20 meters.

Personal
Completed in track and field for two years at Los Gatos ... Captained the team as a senior ... Under 18 World Champion in the pole vault in 2007 ... Two-time NSIC All-American ... California state champion in the pole vault in 2007 and 2008 ... San Jose Mercury News Track Athlete of the year in 2007 and 2008 ... EA Sports Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... Named to the 2008 All-USA team by USA Today ... German champion in 2007 ... Holds the CCS high school record, the State of Baden-Wuettemberg (Germany) record (age 14-17) and the U-18 World Championships Record.

Courtesy Harvard