Pair of frosh score first points for Aggies at NCAA Championships

Published by Texas A&M SID on June 10, 2015

EUGENE – A pair of Aggie freshmen scored the first points for the Texas A&M men on the initial day of the NCAA Championship held at Hayward Field in front of 9,267 fans. Pole vaulter Audie Wyatt and javelin thrower Ioannis Kyriazis had successful debuts in the national championship meet as they finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

In placing fourth for five team points Wyatt became the first Aggie freshman to score in the NCAA pole vault when he set a career best of 18-0 ½ (5.50). The mark moved him to No. 5 on the A&M all-time list with an equal No. 9 performance. Wyatt, a native of Huntsville, also shares the No. 2 position on the 2015 world junior list.

“The competition was great and as people have been saying this has been the year of the vault,” said Wyatt. “Everybody is doing real well out there and the competition was tough. I felt a bit awkward at first, but slowly got my stuff together. I got my head right, got my run down and hit my marks. Then I just went up.”