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Personal Bests
Indoor
Pole Vault, 16-6 3/4 (5.05)
Outdoor
Pole Vault, 16-6 3/4 (5.05)
Honors
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (2009)
First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (2009, 2010, 2011)
Big 12 Fall Commissioner's Honor Roll (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Big 12 Spring Commissioner's Honor Roll (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Big 12 Championships
2010 (O): PV, 15-8 1/2 (t-14th)
2010 (I): PV, 16-5 1/2 (7th)
2011 (Junior)
Luke Franssen competed in three meets during the outdoor track and field season...hit a season-best vault of 15-9 at the Nebraska Open to finish in second place... came in eighth at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational with a pole vault of 15-7 3/4.
2010 (Sophomore)
Franssen topped his previous indoor best of 16-2 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a vault of 16-6 3/4... cleared 16-5 1/2 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships to finish seventh... competed just twice during the outdoor season, including a tie for 14th at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships (15-8 1/2).
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2009 (Redshirt Freshman)
Franssen matched his then-personal best of 15-7 at the adidas Classic and then improved his personal best at the next three meets... cleared 16-0 3/4 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational, then vaulted 16-1 1/4 at the Tyson Invitational, before ending the indoor season with a jump of 16-2 at the Nebraska Tune-Up... opened the outdoor season at the Arizona State Invitational, where he broke his previous outdoor best of 15-7 by four inches with a vault of 15-11... raised his personal best at the Jim Click Shootout when he matched the regional-qualifying standard of 16-6 3/4... ended the year at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a 19th-place jump of 16-1 1/4.
2008 (Freshman)
Franssen redshirted during the indoor and outdoor seasons... competed in three meets unattached during the indoor season, recording a then-personal-best vault of 15-7 at the Holiday Inn Invite... vaulted an outdoor then-personal-best of 15-7 at the Nebraska Invitational.
Before Nebraska (Lincoln HS)
Franssen finished third in the 2007 Nebraska Class A State Track and Field Championships with a personal-best vault of 15-2 under Coach Chris Johnson... tied for fourth in the pole vault (13-6) as a junior at the state meet... also earned two letters in football and three in wrestling during his high school career.
Personal
Father is Thomas Franssen... born Dec. 15, 1988... major is mechanical engineering.