High Point University Athletics

Collegiate Bests:
Indoor Pole Vault: 14-6, 4.42m (2009)
Outdoor Pole Vault: 15-1, 4.60 (2009)

2010-11: Placed fourth in the pole vault at both the Big South Indoor Championship and Big South Outdoor Championship ... Indoors, cleared a season-best 14-3.25 (4.35m) at the Big South Championship ... Placed fourth in the pole vault at the Clemson Winter Classic and took fifth at the Mountaineer Indoor Open ... Outdoors, placed third in the unseeded section of the pole vault at the Wake Forest Open and took sixth at the Johnson C. Smith Invitational ... Cleared 13' 7.25 (4.15m) for his fourth-place finish at the Big South Championship.

2009-10: During the indoor season, cleared 14-5.25 (4.40m) on two occasions, including the Big South Championship, where he placed fifth ... Opened the outdoor season clearing 13-1.5 to place fifth in his section of the pole vault at the Wake Forest Open.

2008-09: Indoors, cleared a season-best 14-6 (4.42m) to place fourth in the pole vault at the Big South Championship ... Placed fifth in the pole vault at the Big South Outdoor Championship, clearing 14-5.25 (4.40m) ... Cleared a career-best 15-1 (4.60m) in the pole vault at HPU's Vertklasse meet.

Prep: Set the Rhode Island record in the pole vault ... State champ in 2008 ... Three-time Class D champ and three-time Eastern Division champ in the pole vault ... Also a member of the wrestling team and football team, winning state championships in both.

Personal: Undecided on a major ... Son of Brad and Michele Mathews ... Born Jacob Myles Mathews on Oct. 1, 1990.