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Indoors: Pole Vault, 18-3 3/4
Outdoors: Pole Vault, 18-2 1/2
NCAA All-American:
2003 Indoor Pole Vault
2003 Outdoor Pole Vault (National Champion)
2001 Indoor Pole Vault
2000 Indoor Pole Vault
Honors:
2003 NCAA Outdoor Pole Vault National Champion; 2003 NCAA Indoor Pole Vault Runner-up; Big 12 Indoor Pole Vault Champion (2002, 2003); Big 12 Outdoor Pole Vault Champion (2000); Nebraska Pole Vault School Record Holder Indoors and Outdoors; Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Spring 2003); 2003 Track and Field News No. 8 U.S. Pole Vault Ranking
NCAA Championships:
2003 (I): Pole Vault, 18-3 3/4 (2nd)
2003 (O): Pole Vault, 17-10 1/2 (1st)
2002 (I): Pole Vault, 17-3 3/4 (14th)
2001 (I): Pole Vault, 17-11 3/4 (4th)
2000 (I): Pole Vault, 18-0 1/2 (t5th)
2000 (O): Pole Vault, 16-0 3/4 (15th)
Big 12 Championships:
2003 (I): Pole Vault, 18-1 3/4 (1st)
2002 (I): Pole Vault, 17-5 3/4 (1st)
2001 (I): Pole Vault, 17-8 1/2 (2nd)
2000 (I): Pole Vault, 17-3 (4th)
2000 (O): Pole Vault, 18-2 1/2 (1st)
2003: Eric Eshbach only has the 2004 outdoor season of eligibility remaining... won his first NCAA title in the pole vault at the 2003 NCAA Outdoor Championships on misses, clearing a height of 17-10 1/2... finished fourth at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships to automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships, clearing 16-11... did not clear a bar at the 2003 Big 12 Outdoor Championships, after winning the title during the indoor season... won the Ward Haylett Invitational (16-8 3/4), the Nebraska Wesleyan Twilight (17-0 3/4), the Kansas Relays (17-4 1/2), the K.T. Woodman Classic (17-8 1/2) and recorded his best mark of the outdoor season at the USATF Championships with a school-record tying height of 18-2, tying for seventh place... tied for fifth at the Texas Relays, jumping 17-8 1/2... was runner-up at the NCAA Indoor Championships, setting a school record at 18-3 3/4... won the Big 12 pole vault title with a then-school record 18-1 3/4 mark... won titles at the Wildcat Invitational (17-0 3/4), the Holiday Inn Invitational (17-0 3/4), the adidas Classic (17-4 1/2), and the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational (17-8 1/2). 2002: Eshbach led the Nebraska pole vaulters indoors in 2002, jumping a height of 18-1, which was good for a then-school record, and an NCAA automatic-qualifying standard... finished 14th at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a height of 17-3 3/4... won the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a height of 17-5 3/4... during the 2002 outdoor season his best vault was 17-10 1/2 at the <?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"?>Texas Relays... competed at the NCAA Outdoor Championships but did not clear his opening height... also no-heighted at the Big 12 Championships. 2001: Earned All-America honors with a fourth-place finish in the pole vault (17-11 3/4) at the NCAA Indoor Championships... placed second at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a mark of 17-8 1/2... received a medical hardship after suffering an ankle injury in his second outdoor meet. 2000: Claimed All-America honors with a fifth-place finish (18-0 1/2) at the NCAA Indoor Championships... finished fourth at the Big 12 indoor meet with a vault of 17-3... also set the school record outdoors with a winning mark of 18-2 1/2 at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships... placed second at the Texas Relays with a mark of 17-8 1/2... spent much of the outdoor season adjusting to longer poles... named the Nebraska Men’s Outstanding Newcomer. High School: Broke the National High School Federation pole vault record at the Texas District 23-3A track meet with a vault of 17-9 3/4 on April 13, 1999... broke his own national record at the 1999 Texas Class 3A state meet with a prep-best vault of 18-2 1/4... named a 1999 Track and Field News high school All-American in the pole vault... was the 1997 Texas Class 3A pole vault champion (15-6) and placed third at the 1998 Class 3A meet (15-9). Personal: High school coaches were Randy Theriot and Joe Hester... major is art with a business minor... parents are Edgar and Monica Eshbach... born Feb. 4, 1981.