Bio

2024 Outdoor: Made six starts, competing only in pole vault … Cleared a top collegiate height of 10 feet, 2.5 inches at the NCAC Championships (May 3-4) and finished sixth overall … Pole vault PR is good enough for sixth in program history … Previous outdoor best mark of 9 feet, 2.5 inches came at All-Ohio Championships (Apr. 13) …

2024 Indoor: Made six starts, exclusively competing in pole vault … Won the event during dual meet vs. Denison (Jan. 25) with a height of 9 feet, 0.25 inches … Runner-up at home Fighting Scots Invitational (Jan. 20) with 9 feet, 0.25 inches … Took third at Bob Shannon Invitational (Feb. 3) with an indoor best height of 10 feet …

2023 Outdoor: Competed in four meets … Took third in pole vault at dual meet against Denison (April 12) with a mark of 8 feet, 6 inches … Reached new heights at NCAC Championships (May 5-6), placing sixth overall and clearing a collegiate-best mark of 9 feet, 3.25 inches …

2023 Indoor: Competed in six meets … Made collegiate debut by reaching a height of 7 feet, 10.5 inches at season-opening home Wooster Invitational (Jan. 14) … Pole vault runner-up at Kenyon Invitational (Feb. 17) with a height of 8 feet, 6 inches … Competed in pole vault at NCAC Championships (Feb. 24-25) and had a season-best height of 8 feet, 8.25 inches …

Prior to Wooster: State qualifier in the pole vault as a junior at St. Thomas Aquinas High School … Coached by Thomas Dowling … Three-year letterwinner in track & field … Earned first-team all-division honors in volleyball and honorable mention honors in golf … Four-year letterwinner in cheerleading, golf, and volleyball …

Personal: Parents are Matthew and Lori Hiestand … Father was inducted into the W Association Hall of Fame in 2003 … Father earned ABCA All-America honors and was the NCAC Player of the Year in baseball as a senior, was voted to CSC’s Academic All-America® team as a sophomore, and was a three-time All-NCAC basketball selection and 1,000-point scorer … Chemistry major … Member of Alpha Gamma Phi and a member of the cheerleading team.