Paul Hamilton Season 2010-11

Personal Bests
Indoor
High Jump, 7-5 (2.26)
Outdoor
High Jump, 7-3 3/4 (2.23)

All-American
2011 Outdoor High Jump
2011 Indoor High Jump (Second Team)
2010 Outdoor High Jump
2010 Indoor High Jump

Big 12 Champion
2010 Outdoor High Jump
2010 Indoor High Jump
2009 Outdoor High Jump

Honors
2010 NACAC U23 High Jump Champion
Team Captain (2010, 2011)

NCAA Championships
2011 (O): HJ, 7-0 1/4 (t7th)
2011 (I): HJ, 7-0 1/2 (10th)
2010 (O): HJ, 7-3 3/4 (3rd)
2010 (I): HJ, 7-4 1/2 (3rd)
2009 (O): HJ, 7-0 1/4 (10th)
2009 (I): HJ, NH (t-13th)
2008 (O): HJ, 6-8 3/4 (t-20th)
2008 (I): HJ, 6-10 1/4 (12th)

Big 12 Championships
2011 (O): HJ, 7-1 (3rd)
2011 (I): HJ, 7-1 (2nd)
2010 (O): HJ, 7-1 3/4 (1st)
2010 (I): HJ, 7-5 (1st)
2009 (O): HJ, 7-2 1/2 (1st)
2009 (I): HJ, 6-10 3/4 (6th)
2008 (O): HJ, 7-3 (3rd)
2008 (I): HJ, 6-11 3/4A (4th)


2010 (Junior)
Paul Hamilton earned his first two All-America honors in 2010 and he also swept the Big 12 high jump titles... cleared seven feet or higher at six of his eight meets... opened the indoor season with a provisional-qualifying leap of 7-0 1/4 at the Holiday Inn Invitational... improved his national standing by two inches with a jump of 7-3 1/4 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... won his first career indoor Big 12 title at a personal-best leap of 7-5, which also automatically qualified him for the national meet... cleared 7-4 1/2 at the NCAA Indoor Championships to place third... jumped no less than 7-0 1/4 at all eight of his outdoor meets... opened with a mark of 7-2 1/2 at the Jim Click Shootout... won his second straight Big 12 outdoor title in Columbia, Mo., with a jump of 7-1 3/4... advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships after jumping 7-1 at the NCAA West Regional... cleared 7-3 3-4 at the national meet to take third place and earn All-America honors... competed at the USA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, and placed fourth with a jump of 7-3 3/4... went on to compete for Team USA at the NACAC Under-23 Championships where he cleared 7-3 3/4 to win the high jump over Ole Miss' Ricky Robertson, who was also a member of Team USA.

2009 (Sophomore)
Hamilton topped the NCAA provisional-qualifying standard 7-0 1/4 at the first meet of the indoor season with a jump of 7-1 1/2... posted back-to-back wins at the Conference Challenge and adidas Classic with clearances of 6-10 1/4 and 7-0 1/4, respectively... set a then-personal best at the Frank Sevigne Invitational with a leap of 7-2 1/2... took the bar up even higher the following week at the Tyson Invitational with an NCAA automatic-qualifying jump of 7-4 1/4... tied for sixth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a jump of 6-10 3/4... suffered a foot injury at the conference meet and was unable to clear the opening height at the NCAA Indoor Championships... started the outdoor season with a jump of 6-10 3/4 at the Jim Click Shootout... cleared at least 7-0 1/2 at four consecutive meets, including the Triton Invitational (7-0 1/2),  Nebraska Quad (7-0 1/2), Concordia Twilight (7-2 1/2) and Big 12 Outdoor Championships (7-2 1/2)... became the second straight Husker to earn the outdoor conference title in Lubbock, Texas, after Dusty Jonas won his first Big 12 a year earlier in Boulder, Colo... earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a fourth-place jump of 6-11 3/4 at the NCAA Midwest Regional... missed All-America honors by one spot at the national meet with a clearance of 7-0 1/4... finished 10th overall and ninth among American jumpers.

2008 (Freshman)
Hamilton produced an impressive freshman season that included top-four finishes at both conference championships as well as trips to the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships... won his first collegiate meet with an indoor then-personal-best jump of 7-2 1/4 at the Holiday Inn Invitational... placed runner-up the next two weeks at the Conference Challenge (6-11 1/2) and Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational (6-10 1/4)... took fourth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships by clearing 6-11 3/4... ended the indoor season as the No. 12 jumper in Division I with a leap of 6-10 1/4 at the NCAA Indoor Championships... cleared 6-10 3/4 at the first three meets of the outdoor season... jumped a then-personal best of 7-3A at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships to finish third... tied for fifth at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a jump of 7-1... earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Outdoor Championships where he tied for 20th with a jump of 6-8 3/4.

Before Nebraska (Sidney HS)
Hamilton claimed the Nebraska Class B state high jump championship his final three years for Sidney High School under Coach John Ganser... tied the Class B state meet record of former Husker Kyle Odvody by clearing 7-0 at the 2007 state meet... tied for the All-Class gold medals with high jump wins in 2005 (6-8) and 2006 (6-10)... became the 12th Nebraska prep to scale the 7-0 barrier with his win at the Alliance Invitational on April 14, 2007... cleared an indoor prep best of 6-9 at the 2007 Dan Lennon Invitational in Vermillion, S.D.

Personal
Parents are Randy Hamilton and Jacque Neal... born Aug. 3, 1988... major is marketing.