SHARON DAY
Events: High Jump
Height: 5-8
Weight: 145
PRs: 1.95m/6-4.75 (2008)
Born: June 9, 1985 in Brooklyn, NY
Current Residence: San Luis Obispo, Calif.
High School: Costa Mesa HS (Costa Mesa, Calif.) '02
College: Cal Poly-SLO '08
Coach: Jack Hoyt
Agent: self
Club: Asics

Career Highlights: 3rd at 2008 Olympic Trials; 2007 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2005 NCAA Outdoor champion; 3rd at 2005 USA Outdoors; 2004 World Junior bronze medalist; 2004 USA Junior champion; 2003 Pan Am Junior gold medalist; Two-time NCAA Indoor & Outdoor runner-up (’03 & ’04)

Day is one of America’s top prospects in the high jump. In 2007, she was the runner-up at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships with a clearance of 1.89m/6-2.25…won her first collegiate high jump crown with a school record performance at the 2005 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Sacramento…In December 2005, Day went for a free-run and tripped over the curb. At first, she thought her foot was just bruised, but the next day she was barely able to walk. The fall had fractured metatarsals in her foot and forced her to redshirt the 2006 track season…In 2004, with support from her fellow Team USA members in Grosetto, Italy, Day matched her personal best mark at the time grabbing a bronze medal at the IAAF World Junior Championships. “I felt good the whole time I was jumping and that helps when the crowd is getting into it, especially my teammates.” She cleared the same height as the silver medalist, but because she had more misses, Day settled for bronze. “The only thing I could have done better is to stay clean and that is what kept me from getting silver. The goal is to stay clean throughout the competition.” Day gained her first taste of international experience at the 2003 Pan Am Junior Championships in Bridgetown, Barbados. She preserved through a long evening of competition leaped to win her first gold medal before the clock struck midnight…a sophomore at Cal Poly, Day trains with teammate Kaylene Wagner, the 2005 USA Indoor runner-up. Also plays the forward position in Soccer for Cal Poly…named 2003 Big West Conference Freshman of the Year.

2008: 12th in qualifying at Olympic Games (1.85m/6-0.75)...3rd at Olympic Trials (1.91m/6-03.25)...NCAA Outdoor runner-up (1.86m/6-1.25)…1st at Big West Champs (1.95m/6-4.75)
2007: 2nd at USA Outdoors (1.89m/6-2.25)…4th at NCAA Outdoors (1.83m/6-0)…6th at Pan An Games (1.81m/5-11.25)…5th at NACAC Champs (1.74m/5-8.75)...2nd at Big West in heptathlon (5,244 points)…3rd in Seattle (1.79m/5-10.5i)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 1.89m/6-2.25.
2006: did not compete (redshirt – fractured metatarsals).
2005: NCAA Outdoor champion (1.93m/6-4PR)...3rd at USA Outdoors (J1.90m/6-2.75)...2nd at adidas Track Classic (1.92m/6-3.5)...3rd at USA Indoors (1.82m/5-11.5i)...3rd at NCAA Indoors (1.86m/6-1.25)...1st at Seattle (1.86m/6-1.25i)...ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 1.93m/6-4.
2004: World Junior bronze medalist (1.91m/6-3.25PR)...1st at Atascadero All-Comers Championships (1.91m/6-3.25)...USA Junior champion (1.85m/6-0.75)...NCAA Outdoors runner-up (1.90m/6-2.75)...NCAA Indoors runner-up (1.86m/6-1.25i)...3rd at Holiday Inn Invitational (1.81m/5-11.25i)...ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1.91m/6-3.25.
2003: Pan Am Junior gold medalist champion (1.85m/6-0.75)...USA Junior runner-up (1.78m/5-10)...1st at Cost Mesa (1.88m/6-2)...best of 1.88m/6-2.

09/22/08