Christina Lehman Season 2004-05

 

Personal Bests:
Indoors: Pole Vault, 13-5 1/4
Outdoors: Pole Vault, 13-4

 

NCAA All-American:
2004 Indoor Pole Vault

 

Honors:
Big 12 Champion Pole Vault 2003 (I); Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2003, 2004); NCAA Midwest Regional Pole Vault Champion, 2003 (O); NCAA Division I Track Coaches Association All-Academic Team (2003, 2004); Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2004)

 

NCAA Championships:
2004 (I): Pole Vault, 13-3 1/2 (t9th)
2003 (I): Pole Vault, 12-11 1/2 (14th)
2003 (O): Pole Vault, 12-9 1/2 (t15th)

 

Big 12 Championships:
2004 (I): Pole Vault, 12-7 1/2 (t4th)
2004 (O): Pole Vault, 13-1 1/2 (2nd)
2003 (I): Pole Vault, 13-3 1/2 (1st)
2003 (O): Pole Vault, 12-10 (2nd)
2002 (I): Pole Vault, 11-10 (5th)
2002 (O): Pole Vault, 11-9 (6th)

2004: Christi Lehman earned her first All-America honor by finishing in a tie for ninth in the pole vault at the NCAA Indoor Championships (13-3 1/2)... finished second at the outdoor conference meet for the second year in a row (13-1 1/2)... tied for fourth place at the indoor conference meet by clearing 12-7 1/2... set an indoor personal record of 13-5 1/4 at the Kansas State Open, where she finished second to teammate Jessie Graff... equaled her outdoor career-best height of 13-4 to win the Concordia Distance Classic and set the stadium record... finished second to teammate Jenny Green at both the Drake Relays (12-11 1/2) and Blue Heaven Classic (13-1 1/2)... claimed third place at the Holiday Inn Invitational with a height of 13-0 1/4... also earned bronze at the Nebraska Quadrangular (13-1 1/2). 2003: Lehman won the Midwest Regional title in the pole vault with a then-NU school record 13-2 1/4 to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships... tied for 15th, clearing 12-9 1/2 in the preliminaries of the national meet... took silver at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships with a vault of 12-10... previously tied the NU school record outdoors with Alissa Koerner at 12-11 1/2 at the K.T. Woodman Classic... finished 14th in first trip to the NCAA Indoor Championships, clearing 12-11 1/2 before exiting the meet... set the Nebraska school indoor record in the pole vault four times in 2003, setting the final mark at 13-3 3/4 at the Last Chance Qualifier... won her first Big 12 title in the pole vault with a mark of 13-3 1/2 indoors... set first school record at the Holiday Inn Invitational, leaping 12-9 1/2 to win the event... also won titles at the adidas Classic (13-1 1/2), the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational (13-0 1/4), the KSU Open (12-7 1/2) and the Last Chance Qualifier. 2002: As a freshman, Lehman set a season-best outdoor pole vault mark of 12-5 1/2 at the Kansas State, Oregon, Wyoming Quadrangular... scored in both the indoor (5th) and outdoor (6th) Big 12 Conference championship meets... led the team indoors with a provisional-qualifying and season-best height of 12-5 3/4 at the adidas Invitational... finished second at the Wildcat Invitational and won the Prairie Wolf Invitational. High School: Claimed the pole vault title at the 2001 Kansas Class 3A state meet with an all-time state best vault of 12-7, which ranked 11th among prep athletes in 2001... won Class 3A state titles in 1999 and 2000 (11-0)... finished fifth at the 2001 Golden West Invitational (12-0 3/4)... named the 2001 Lynette Woodard Kansas Female Athlete of the Year... finished second at the 2001 Junior Olympics (11-10 3/4)... took third at the 2000 Junior Olympics (11-0)... placed fourth in the pole vault as a freshman at the 1998 Class 3A state meet... was the all-around state champion at the 2001 Kansas state gymnastics meet. Personal: High school coach was Darrin Bryant... major is nursing... parents are Barry and Sharon Lehman... brother Cory Lehman threw the javelin for the Huskers in 1999 and 2000... born Aug. 8, 1982.

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