A.J. Frens

Photo by: Mackenna Kelly

Photo by: Benjamin Suddendorf

ITF Class:
Junior
OTF Class:
R-Sophomore
Hometown:
Greenville, Ohio
High School:
Greenville

PERSONAL RECORDS
Outdoor
Pole vault: 4.97 meters

Indoor
Pole vault: 4.95 meters

2020 (Indoor): Placed seventh (4.58 meters) in the pole vault at the Mid-American Conference Championships in Akron, Ohio (2/28-29) … finished sixth (4.57 meters) in the pole vault at the Grand Valley State Big Meet (2/14) … placed fourth (4.77 meters) in the pole vault in a dual meet at Akron (1/17).

2019 (Outdoor): Placed fourth (4.91 meters) in the Mid-American Conference Championships in Muncie, Ind. (5/9-11) … won the pole vault (4.95 meters) at the Michigan Len Paddock Open (5/3) … placed eighth (4.81 meters) at the Ohio State Jesse Owens Classic (4/26-27) … placed third with a career-best 4.97-meter vault at the Virginia Challenge (4/19-20) … placed third (4.75 meters) in the pole vault at the Tennessee Relays (4/11) … placed second (4.70 meters) in the pole vault at the Western Michigan Jack Shaw Classic (4/5) … placed sixth (4.76 meters) in the pole vault at the North Carolina State Raleigh Relays (3/29-30) … placed fourth (4.75 meters) in the pole vault at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invitational (3/22-23).

2019 (Indoor): Finished fourth in the pole vault (4.85 meters) while competing unattached at the Eastern Michigan Can Am International (1/26).

2018 (Outdoor): Did not compete.

2018 (Indoor): Placed fifth in the pole vault with a career-best 4.95 meters in the Mid-American Conference Championships in Bowling Green, Ohio (2/23-24) … placed sixth (4.75 meters) in the pole vault in the Michigan Silverston Invitational (2/16) … placed second (4.95 meters) in the Akron-College Invitational (2/2-3) … placed sixth (4.56 meters) in the Saginaw Valley Jets Pizza Invitational (1/26-27) … finished second (4.71 meters) in the pole vault in the Saginaw Valley Doug Hansen Open (1/19) … placed third (4.60 meters) in the pole vault at the CMU Jack Skoog Open (1/12).

High School: Took fifth in the pole vault at the 2017 Midwest Meet of Champions … finished fourth in the pole vault at the 2017 Ohio High School Athletic Association Division 1 state meet … 2017 regional and district pole vault champion … two-time runner-up in the pole vault at the Ohio Association of Track-Cross Country Coaches Indoor State Finals … placed fifth in the pole vault in the 2015 OHSAA state meet.