Tori Anthony (born April 19, 1989) is an American

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a #bar, bar. Pole jumping was already practiced by the ...

er from

Woodside, California Woodside is a incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula. It has a council–manager system of government. The population of the town was 5,309 at the 2020 census. The town's population ha ...

and the holder of the national indoor and outdoor records for high school women at and respectively. She was originally a

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, but burned out on the sport and switched to track and

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. Competing in her first track events as a sophomore, she placed fourth in the pole vault at the 2005

CIF California State Meet The CIF California State Meet is the annual championship track and field meet for the California Interscholastic Federation. The meet was started in 1915 for boys and 1974 for girls. Every athlete in every high school in California has a direc ...

within four months of taking up the sport. Even before setting the outdoor record, she was named an "Athletes Only" indoor track athlete of the year for 2006–07, and named "best high school girl pole vaulter in the country" by

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. She missed her high school

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from

Castilleja School Castilleja School is an independent school for girls in grades six through twelve, located in Palo Alto, California. Castilleja is the only non-sectarian all-girls middle and high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. The faculty consists of appr ...

to set the outdoor record on June 2, 2007. She competed for

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, achieving 13' 9" in their uniform to rank number in school history. She was a two-time champion at the USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships, winning in 2006 and 2007. She represented her country internationally at the

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(placing eighth in the final) and came fourth at the

2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships The 14th Pan American Junior Athletics Championships were held in São Paulo, Brazil at the Estádio Ícaro de Castro Melo on July 6 to July 8, 2007. A detailed report on the results was given. Participation (unofficial) Detailed result lis ...

the following year. In senior national competition she was 11th at the 2007 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships and ninth at the 2007 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She achieved her personal record that year. She retired from competition in 2012 after suffering injuries.Tori Anthony
UCLA. Retrieved 2020-10-30.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anthony, Tory Living people 1989 births People from Woodside, California Sportspeople from San Mateo County, California Sportspeople from Palo Alto, California Track and field athletes from California American female pole vaulters UCLA Bruins women's track and field athletes Castilleja School alumni