Stacy (Mikaelsen) Dragila…First Olympic female PV title

Placer HS / Yuba CC / Idaho State

17 USA Indoor/Outdoor Titles / Three World Indoor / Outdoor Titles

Placer HS (Auburn): 1990 State HS Meet 300m hurdles-9^th 46.60 (heat-2^nd 44.67);

Golden West Invite 400 IH-2^nd 63.70

Yuba CC (Marysville): 1992 State Meet 400 IH-9^th 68.53;

Yuba coach-John Orognen-began training Stacy for heptathlon

Idaho State: 1995-USA Outdoors-2^nd 11-5¾; USA/Great Britain-1^st 12-1½*season PR;

Ranked #2 USA; Hepatathlon best 5240

1996: USA Outdoor title 13-9¼*USA record; USA Indoor-1^st 13-5¼; Heptathlon best-5291

1997: World Indoors-1^st 14-5¾ *world record (first time event held); USA Outdoors-1^st 14-1¾;

Season PR 14-7 ¼” *world ranked #2; Heptathlon best-5393

1998: USA Indoor title 14-1¾; USA Outdoors-2^nd 13-5¼; Indoor best 14-8¾*season PR;

Outdoor PR14-6

1999: IAAF World Chps. (Seville): 1^st 15-1*equaled world, USA record-first time event held;

USA Outdoor-1^st 14-7¼; USA Indoor-1^st 14-7¼; World ranked #1; Season PR 15-1

2000: Olympic Trials-1^st 15-2¼*world record;

2000 Sydney Olympics-1^st 15-1 (4.60m);

2000 USA Indoors-1^st 15-1¾*world indoor record, $50,000 bonus for record; World ranked #1

2001: Set eight world records; Snake River Open-Pocatello,Idaho:Dragila became the first woman to clear 15-0 indoors(4.57m);.USA Indoor title-15-5; USA Outdoor title 15-1¾; Season PR 15-9¼; Goodwill Games-1^st 14-11; Grand Prix-1^st 14-9; World Chps. title (Edmonton) 15-7*MR;

Ranked #1 in world by T&F News

2002: Injury plagued season; USA Outdoor title 15-3; Season best 15-5¾

2003: USA Indoor title*world indoor record 15-8¼; USA Outdoor 14-9; World Chps. 14-11;

USA Indoor title 15-8¼*USA record & season best; World Indoors-no height

2004: Golden Spike (Ostrava)-1^st 15-10 (4.83m)*world record, current USA record;

Olympic Trials-1^st 15-7; Olympics (Athens) 18^th qualifying 4.30; World Indoor Chps. 2^nd 15-9¼;

USA Indoors-1^st 15-5; Ranked #3 in world by T&F News

2005: USA Outdoor title 14-7¼; season best 15-1

2006: Did not compete-injury

2007: 14-9 season best

2008: USA Olympic Trials-7^th 14-5¼; Season best of 15-5

2009: USA Outdoors-3^rd 14-11

Honors: Jesse Owens Award (USA outstanding female T&F athlete)-2000, 2001;

Pocatello, Idaho named city street in her honor-Dragila Way-located on the Idaho State campus;

Wheaties box cover-2000-after becoming first Olympic female pole vault champion.

Some good news for Haiti…A Haitian Believe-it-or-Not…Barbara Pierre, a Haitian 100-meter sprinter who made the quarter-finals of the 2008 Olympics (11.52 in Rd, One) and was NCAA D-II 100-meter outdoor champion in 2007-8, improbably won the 2009 conference cross country title for St. Augustine College in 20:10.6