TARA BAXTER

5-4 SO.
LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS

2001-02: Recorded top pole vault of 8¹9-3/4² during the indoor season at the SoCon Championships and had best outdoor vault of 10¹1/4² at the Furman Invitational, which won the event and set a new school standard... Named to SoCon Academic Honor Roll. High School: Led her Leavenworth High track team to the Kansas 6A State Championship four consecutive years (team won six straight)... Set a school record in the pole vault with a mark of 11¹0² and finished second individually in the state of Kansas.... Also earned one letter in gymnastics and was the state champion on the vault... Spent one year on the diving team and was a state finalist... Named Junior Homecoming Princess and Winter Royalty Queen... Member of National Honor Society and Who¹s Who. Personal: Tara Elizabeth Baxter was born August 2, 1982, in Overland Park, Kansas... Daughter of Jeff and Connie Baxter... Majoring in health and exercise science.