Loretta Blaut Season 2017-18

** NATIONAL RUNNER-UP • 2018 NCAA Outdoor • High Jump **
** NATIONAL RUNNER-UP • 2018 NCAA Indoor • High Jump **
** 2018 USTFCCCA All-America First Team • High Jump (Outdoor) **
** 2018 USTFCCCA All-America First Team • High Jump (Indoor) **
** 2017 USTFCCCA All-America First Team • High Jump (Outdoor) **
** 2016 USTFCCCA All-America Second Team • High Jump (Indoor) **
** 2016 USTFCCCA All-America First Team • High Jump (Outdoor) **
** 2018 American Athletic Conference Champion • High Jump (Outdoor) **
** 2018 American Athletic Conference Champion • High Jump (Indoor) **
** 2017 American Athletic Conference Champion • High Jump (Outdoor) **
** 2017 American Athletic Conference Champion • High Jump (Indoor) **

QUICK NOTES: Enters her final season as the most decorated All-American in program history with five honors, including four USTFCCCA All-America First Team certificates… twice finished as the national runner-up at the NCAA Championships, including the 2018 indoor and 2018 outdoor meets… ranks among the top jumpers in program history, holding or sharing the school record indoor and outdoor… indoor, cleared 1.87m (6-01.50) at the 2018 NCAA Championships to tie for the school record and take the AAC record… cleared 1.88m (6-02.00) at the AAC Championships to set the UC and conference record in the event… also holds the UC freshman record with a mark of 1.78m (5-10.00) in 2015.
 
2017-18 SEASONS
2018 OUT (SR): National runner-up in a rain storm at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., clearing 1.82m (5-11.50) to take second place and earn her fifth USTFCCCA All-America honor… won six meets on the year, including the AAC Championships in Cincinnati with a school and meet-record clearance of 1.88m (6-02.00)… that mark also was an overall conference and facility record… cleared 1.80m or better in seven of her eight meets… tied for first at the NCAA East Region Championships to earn a berth to nationals, clearing 1.80m (5-10.75)… following the season, she competed in the USATF Championships, placing sixth overall with a clearance of 1.83m… was selected to compete for Team USA at the 2018 NACAC Championships in Toronto where she placed third overall… earned USTFCCCA All-Academic and American Athletic Conference All-Academic honors.
 2018 IN (JR*): Finished second at the NCAA Championships as she tied for the title but took second following a seven round jump-off… earned her third career USTFCCCA All-America First Team honor and her fourth career All-America certificate… cleared a school-record-tying 1.87m (6-01.50) at the national meet, equaling the mark she cleared two weeks prior at the AAC Championships when she won her third AAC crown in a row (indoor and outdoor)… won her first seven events of the season before the national meet… cleared a season-best mark in four-consecutive meets, going 1.74m in the first competition before going 1.76m, 1.82m, 1.83m and 1.84m… her AAC clearance tied for the conference record and broker the meet record as well, her second of the year after clearing 1.84m (6-00.50) at the Charlie Thomas Invitational in College Station, Texas.
 
2016-17 SEASONS
2017 OUT (JR): Earned her third career USTFCCCA All-America honor and her second first-team accolade after placing sixth at the NCAA Championships… cleared 1.82m (5-11.50) at the national meet to score her All-America certificate… qualified to the NCAA Final by tying for eighth at the NCAA East Preliminary Round meet… won all eight of her other competitions on the season, including her first AAC outdoor meet with a with a meet record mark of 1.77m (5-09.75)… won the Kentucky Relays with an outdoor PR 1.83m (6-0.00)… that marks tied her for third on UC’s all-time Top 10 and also was a meet record… cleared 1.80m or better six times, including five meets in a row… her win at Louisville’s Lyles/Wood Invitational was with a mark of 1.81m (5-11.25), which was a meet record and tied the facility record.
2017 IN (SO*): Came back strong from an injury to win three of the four meets she entered… won her first AAC title by clearing a season-best 1.73m (5-08.00)… that mark, which she also jumped at the Buckeye Tune-up one week earlier, moved her into a tie for #2 on the program’s indoor Top 10 chart… also won the Charlie Thomas Invitational at Texas A&M, her first meet back.
 
2015-16 SEASONS
2016 OUT (SO): Finished the collegiate season as a USTFCCCA All-America First Team honoree after placing sixth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the high jump… cleared a career outdoor best 1.82m (5-11.50) at the national meet to earn a Top 8 placement… tied for third at the American Athletic Conference Championships before tying for seventh at the NCAA East Preliminary Round meet, punching her ticket to nationals… won the high jump at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational and the Kentucky Relays (tied)… capped the year earning American Athletic Conference All-Academic honors… also tabbed for USTFCCCA All-Academic accolades.
2016 IN (FR*): Earned USTFCCCA All-America Second Team recognition after placing ninth at the NCAA Championships… opened the season clearing 1.86m (6-01.25) to win the Kentucky Invitational… that mark would end up also qualifying her for the NCAA indoor meet, as well as the Olympic Trials (outdoors)… won the Buckeye Tune-Up as well… cleared 1.78m or better in five of seven meets.
 
2014-15 SEASONS
2015 OUT (FR): Took first in three of seven high jump competitions... finished second at the Disney Open... won the Oliver Nikoloff and Miami Invitational... took fourth at the Tennessee Relays... cleared 1.78m (5-10.00) to win the Kentucky Relays... runner-up finish at the American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships... qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Round... competed at the USA Junior National Championships and finished fourth at the national meet.
2015 IN (FR): Sat out the indoor season due to an injury.

High School: Runner-up in the high jump at the 2014 Ohio D1 State Championships... won the high jump at the 2013 Ohio D1 State Championships... champion of the 2014 District and Regional meets in the high jump

PERSONAL BEST MARKS
Indoor Track & Field
High Jump • 1.87m/6-01.50 (NCAA Championships • 3/9/18) • UC RECORD (TIE) & AAC RECORD
 
Outdoor Track & Field
High Jump • 1.88m/6-02.00 (AAC Championships • 5/13/18) – UC RECORD & AAC RECORD