2006-07 Women's Track and Field Roster

Sarah Landau

  • Class Junior
  • High School Geneva
  • Hometown Geneva, Ill.

Biography

2005-06: NCAA Qualifier ... NCAA MidEast Regional Pole Vault Champion ... MAC Indoor and Outdoor Pole Vault Champion ... All-MAC First Team Indoors and Outdoors ... All-MAC Academic Team Indoors ... Two-Time MAC Field Athlete of the Week (Feb. 7 and Feb. 14) ... during the indoor season, reset her own school record in the pole vault at four consecutive meets, moving it up 5 1/2 inches from 12-11 1/2 to 13-5 ... one of four Miami provisional qualifiers in the indoor season ... indoors, tallied six win in the pole vault including her gold-medal performance (13-1/4) at the MAC Indoor Championships ... outdoors, tallied six wins in the pole vault, including her second consecutive MidEast Regional title ... completed season sweep of the MAC indoor and outdoor pole vault titles with a first-place clearance of 13-3 at the outdoor conference meet ... cleared 13-0 on six occasions, including a MAC-best height of 13-6 1/2 at the Southern Ohio Cup ... one of three RedHawks to qualify for the MidEast Regional ... qualified for second straight NCAA Championships with regional-winning vault of 13-3 3/4 ... matched highest national finish as 11th-place vaulter at the national meet. 2004-05: Indoor Track and Field -- All-MAC Second Team ... reset the Miami indoor pole vault record three times, raising it 11 1/2 inches in total ... won four of the eight vaulting competitions she entered, including events at Bowling Green, Eastern Illinois, the All-Ohio Championships and Ball State ... earned her top height at the MAC Championships, vaulting 12-11 1/2 for a silver medal and second-team honors. Outdoor Track and Field -- Set the NCAA Midwest Regional record and earned a bid to the NCAA Championships with her Miami-record 13-7 3/4 vault at the regional meet ... raised the school outdoor pole vault record 16 3/4 inches, breaking it four times over the course of the outdoor season ... finished one place from All-America honors at the NCAA Championships as the ninth-best U.S. competitor, 11th overall, with a 13-5 1/4 vault ... won six of the 10 vault competitions she entered, including her first three meets (Southern Illinois, South Florida, Miami Invitational) and three of her last five (Ohio, Indiana, NCAA Regional) ... won a bronze medal at the MAC meet, vaulting 13-1 1/2.

High School: Enters Miami with the second-highest pole vault of any U.S. high schooler at 13-3 ... won the Illinois state AA pole vault competition as a junior and senior at Geneva High School in Geneva, Ill.

Personal: Daughter of Joe and Ellen Landau ... communications major.