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 Sage Thames
Sage Thames

Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Wolfforth, Texas

High School:
Frenship

Last College:
Texas

Event:
Pole Vault

Experience:
1L


2006 INDOOR: National qualifier and all-confernce honoree ... opened the season vaulting a NCAA provisional mark of 17"-0.75" at the Pole Vault Summit ... cleared a season-high mark of 17'-1" at the Tyson Invite ... at the Big 12 Championships, cleared 17'-7" ... ended the season vaulting 17'-6.5" at the NCAA Championships.

2005 OUTDOOR: All-conference in the pole vault ... cleared 16'-10.75" to finish tied for sixth at the Big 12 Championships ... mark was a regional qualifying effort ... cleared 17'-1" at the Midwest Regional.

2005 INDOOR: Set three provisional marks during the season ... career- and season-best mark of 17'-9.25" came at the Big 12 Championships, earning a third-place finish and all-conference honors ... cleared a height of 17'-4.5" at the Tyson Invite.

2004 OUTDOOR: All-American, all-region and all-conference in the pole vault ... joined the 18-foot club with a personal-best jump of 18'-0.5" at Nationals for a sixth-place finish ... runner-up at Regionals with a jump of 17'-11"... cleared 17'-10.5" at the Michael Johnson Invitational for a first-place finish ... turned in a fifth-place finish at the UTEP Invitational clearing 17'-4.5".

2004 INDOOR: All-conference pole vaulter who finished fourth at conference with a height of 17'-0", also a season-best mark ... tied for seventh at the ISU Last Chance with a mark of 16'-6".

2003: Redshirted both the indoor and outdoor seasons.

AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: Attended University of Texas, where he competed during the indoor season but not the outdoor season, receiving a medical redshirt.

HIGH SCHOOL: 2001 graduate of Frenship High School in Frenship, Texas ... competed in track and field with a No. 1 ranking in the pole vault ... won state championship in 1999 and 2000 in the pole vault ... named all-state, All-American ... USA Junior Team member in track in both 1999 and 2000 ... set the state record for class 4A in the pole vault, 17'-7" ... took first in the pole vault in the Golden West Meet ... senior class president and member of National Honor Society.

PERSONAL: Born 5-23-82 ... son of Teb and Candy Thames ... father is a physician and competed in pole vault at SMU ... mother is a photographer ... has two sisters, Ginger and Heather ... majoring in wildlife and fisheries management and biology with plans to go to dental school.

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Texas Tech Red Raiders