Slippery Rock University Athletics

Career Highlights

• Three-Time USTFCCCA All-Region

• One-Time All-PSAC

• Four-Time PSAC Championship Qualifier

Personal: Son of Rick and Emily Schneider … Majoring in Exercise Science.
 
2025 (Outdoor): Competed at two meets … Qualified for the PSAC Championships, placing seventh and earning SRU 1.5 points with a 4.51-meter clearance … Cleared 4.55 meters to place fourth at the Weaver Invite in only other appearance of outdoor season ... A PSAC Scholar-Athlete.  

2025 (Indoor): Competed in the pole vault at five meets …  A USTFCCCA All-Region Performer … Qualified for the PSAC Championships, placing ninth with a clearance of 4.35 meters … Registered a season-best clearance of 4.60 meters to place third at the Jud Logan Light Giver Invitational … Also placed third at the Wuske Invite courtesy of a 4.53-meter clearance.

2024 (Outdoor): Competed in the pole vault at eight meets … A USTFCCCA All-Region honoree and PSAC Championship qualifier … Cleared a season-high 4.77 meters as part of an 11th-place finish at the Ashland Alumni Open … Produced clearance of 4.65 meters to place third at both the Dave Labor Invite and the John Papa Invitational … Opened year with back-to-back top-five finishes at the Dr. Toms Alumni Invitational (third / 4.55) and the Carnegie Mellon Invite (fourth / 4.47) … A PSAC Scholar-Athlete and USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree.

2024 (Indoor): Competed at seven meets in the pole vault … A USTFCCCA All-Atlantic Region performer … Earned All-PSAC honors after placing third at the conference meet with a clearance of 4.86 meters … Season-high clearance of 4.90 meters came as part of a fifth-place finish at the Jud Logan Memorial … Cleared 4.84 meters to take 10th at the YSU Mid-Major Invite … Also registered top-10 finishes at the YSU Icebreaker (4.75 / seventh), the Ashland Invitational (4.61 / fourth), the SPIRE Indoor Games (4.55 meters / seventh) and the Mount Union Wuske Open (4.49 / fifth) … Named the PSAC Field Athlete of the Week once.

High School: Lettered in track and field in golf at Northwest PA Collegiate Academy … 2023 AAA state champion … 2x District 10 Champion … 2x All-region pole vaulter … School record-holder (15’7”) … Became the first state champion from an Erie high school … Holds pole vaulting record at the Fort LeBeouf Invitational (15’7”) … Graduated Summa Cum Laude and in the top five of his class.