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Release courtesy of Roberts Wesleyan University Sports Information ROCHESTER, NY – Roberts Wesleyan University graduate student and four-time NCAA Division II women's pole vault champion Brynn King will be honored at the Rochester Press Radio-Club's Celebration of Champions on Tuesday, June 10 at Innovative Field. King will receive the Rich Funke Jr. & Jerry Flynn Local College Athlete of the Year Award in a ceremony prior to the Rochester Red Wings 6:45 p.m. game against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. King, who won her most recent 2025 NCAA DII championship on May 24, is being honored by the club for the second consecutive year. She received the Jerry Flynn Local Female College Athlete of the Year in 2024. A native of The Woodlands, Texas, King transferred to Roberts from Duke University in the spring of 2023 to be coached by Roberts alum and 2012 Olympic pole vault champion Jenn Suhr and her husband, Rick, and has been rewriting the record books ever since. King set the NCAA Division II record in her first indoor meet as a Redhawk en route to winning the 2024 NCAA DII title with a record-setting vault of 4.65 meters (15-feet, 3 inches) on March 8, 2024, while becoming the first student-athlete from Roberts to win an NCAA championship. King went on to set the NCAA Division II outdoor record at the 2024 Texas Relays on her way to winning her second national title in Emporia, Kans. King gained national attention at the U.S. Olympic Trials in June when she jumped 4.73 meters (15-feet, 6 1/4 inches) at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field to catapult from eighth in the standings to finish third and earn a spot on Team USA for the 2024 Paris Olympics. King represented the United States in Paris last summer and overcame a series of illnesses to win her third NCAA DII title with a record-setting jump of 4.66 meters (15-3½) in Indianapolis in March. Feeling healthy again, King set the all-time NCAA outdoor record at any level (since surpassed) of 4.75 meters (15-7) at the Texas Relays on March 29. She injured her back in a meet two weeks later and did not compete again until the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships where she overcame swirling winds and the high altitude in Pueblo, Colo., to clear 4.52 meters (14-10) to become the first repeat champion in the event since 2017. King was unanimously chosen as the East Coast Conference's 2025 Outdoor Track and Field Female Athlete of the Year last week.
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