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Player Bio: April Kubishta



06/03/2013

ASU T&F To Wrap Up Season at NCAA Outdoor Champs

National championships will be on the line in Eugene, Ore., this weekend as the Sun Devil track and field team wraps up the 2012-13 ASU competition calendar.

04/25/2013

Sun Devil T&F Welcomes UA, NAU To Tempe for Dual Meet

The Arizona State men and women will look to keep their winning streaks against their in-state rivals alive this weekend.

Arizona State: Returning NCAA Outdoor Champion in the pole vault after winning the outdoor title with a clearance of 4.25m (13-11.25)... earned her first All-America honor with her national title... is the lone Sun Devil female to clear 14-feet in competition... broke her own school record indoors with a clearance of 14-01.25 (4.30m) while becoming just the second Sun Devil to break the 4-meter plateau... that clearance moved her into a tie for the seventh-best mark in Pac-10 history... cleared 13-11.75 (4.26m) outdoors to break her own school record... 2007 Outdoor: Won the NCAA Championship in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.25m (13-11.25)... won the regional meet with a school-record clearance of 4.26m (13-11.75)... runner-up at the Pac-10 Championships (4.10m)... became only the second Sun Devil to break the 4-meter barrier with a clearance of 4.20m (13-09.25) to win the Baldy Castillo Invitational... won the event at the ASU Clif Bar as well... cleared 4-meters in every outdoor meet of the season... ESPN The Magazine Second Team Academic All-District VIII... USTFCCCA All-Academic selection... Second Team Academic All-Pac-10... 2007 Indoor: Won her first league title by claiming the MPSF Championship with a clearance of 4.27m (14-00.00)... tied for 11th at the NCAA Championships... ranked No. 1 in the nation most of the season after clearing 4.30m (14-01.25) at the Mountain `T' Invitational... that clearance was her third school-record vault in as many weeks and also tied her for seventh on the Pac-10's all-time list... her 4.30m clearance in Flagstaff made her the first Sun Devil to clear 14-feet in competition... earned Academic All-MPSF honors... 2006 Outdoor: Competed in nine events on the season... tied the school record of 13-5.25 while winning the Double Dual... also won the Arizona International and placed second three other times... placed 11th at the Pac-10 Championships... finished ninth at the NCAA West Region before placing 22nd at the NCAA Championships... named USTFCCCA Academic All-America... also selected to the Academic All-Pac-10 Second Team... 2006 Indoor: Broke and reset the school record on four occasions... cleared a personal-best 13-7.75 and finished third at the MPSF Championships... placed 12th at the NCAA Championships... won three events, including the Arizona-California Challenge, the Air Force Invitational and the Southwest Invitational... cleared 13 feet or higher in all but one meet... earned Academic All-MPSF honors... 2005 Track: Did not compete after transferring from Arizona.

Arizona: Competed for one season with Arizona before transferring to ASU... cleared 3.81m (12-6.00) during the indoor season for her top mark of the year.

High School: A 2003 graduate of Lake Havasu City High School (Lake Havasu City, Ariz.)... set pole vault records in both the Arizona and National Junior Olympic levels... also earned high school All-America honors in pole vault... won state 4A titles in the pole vault, the 300m hurdles and as a member of the 4x400m relay team... became the first Arizona high school female pole vaulter to clear the 13-foot mark.... team's MVP four years in a row... all-state as a junior and senior... all-region selection all four years of high school... lettered in track and field four times... captained the team as a senior.

Personal: Major is mathematics... parents are Barry and Lora Kubishta... three siblings: brothers Brent and Bryan and sister Lesa... born July 5, 1985, in Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

Personal Bests - Pole Vault: 14-01.25 (indoor) and 13-11.75 (outdoor)

  April Kubishta
April Kubishta
Player Profile
Class:
RS Senior

Hometown:
Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

High School:
Lake Havasu City HS

Last College:
University of Arizona

Height:
5-5

Event:
Pole Vault

IN NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP MEETS (* = All-America honor earned)
Meet Event Time/Mark Place
2007 Outdoor T&F Pole Vault (f) 13-11.25 1st *
2007 Indoor T&F Pole Vault (f) 13-01.50 t-11th