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Personal Bests:
Indoors: Pentathlon, 3,449; Heptathlon, 4,833
Outdoors: Decathlon, 6,653
Honors:
Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2004); Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004)
Big 12 Championships:
2004 (O): Decathlon, 6,514 (8th)
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2004: Kyle Goerl (pronounced GORE-el) earned eighth place in the decathlon at his first Big 12 Outdoor Championships with 6,514 points... set a personal-best score with 6,653 points to place sixth at the College Station Relays... redshirted the indoor season while rehabbing an injured foot. 2003: Goerl earned a personal-record 4,833 points in the heptathlon to finish fifth at the Wildcat Invitational... clocked career bests of 7.39 in the 60 meters and 8.62 in the 60-meter hurdles at the Wildcat Invitational... finished ninth at the Carol Robinson Winter Pentathlon with a score of 3,432... redshirted the outdoor season, but competed unattached at the College Station Multi Festival and set a season-best decathlon score of 6,503 points. Hutchinson Community College: Finished fourth in the pentathlon at the 2002 NJCAA Indoor Championships, earning All-America honors with a score of 3,322... earned 3,449 points in the 2002 NJCAA Region VI Indoor Championships... was sixth in the 2001 NJCAA indoor pentathlon with 3,283 points... was named a two-time NJCAA Academic All-American. High School: In his junior and senior years, Goerl was third in the 110-meter hurdles and fifth in the 300-meter hurdles at the Kansas Class 5A State High School Championships... as a junior in 1999 was also a member of the fifth-place 4x400 relay team... led Buhler High School to a second-place finish at the 2000 Kansas Class 5A state championships in his senior season. Personal: High school coach was Willie Adkins... Hutchinson Community College Coach was Patrick Becher... major is psychology with a minor in Spanish... parents are Vernon and Sandy Goerl... born March 8, 1982.