TMHS Alumnus Jacob Wooten Punches Ticket to 2024 Olympic Games

photo courtesy of: USATF

TOMBALL - Former Tomball Memorial High School and Texas A&M pole vaulter Jacob Wooten has punched his ticket to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Wooten is a 2015 graduate of TMHS where he captured the 2015 UIL 5A State Championship title in pole vault with a 17-0 mark. He went on to attend Texas A&M University where he was a four-time All-American in pole vault. In his four years at TAMU, he placed in the Top 5 at the SEC Indoor and Outdoor Championships each season. He also was a three-time NCAA Outdoor West Regional Champion, and competed at the NCAA Championships all four years. Wooten currently tops the list at Texas A&M for pole vault indoor and outdoor records with heights of 18-9.5 (indoor) and 18.875 (outdoor), both earned in 2019.

As a Worlds Athletics athlete now, Wooten punched his ticket to the 2024 Olympic Games in the men's pole vault, following a season-best performance. He was in the thick of a four-way battle for the three Olympic spots, however Wooten delivered his best clearance of the year of 5.87m/19-3 to finish tied for second overall at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, and ensured his spot on the plane to Paris.

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