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Team captain ... will look to qualify for her third NCAA outdoor championship meet ... competed at the 2002 and 2004 NCAA outdoor meet ... won both the 2002 Mountain West Conference indoor and outdoor pole vault titles.
2004 - Had another solid season for the Aztecs, making NCAAs for the second time ... set the school outdoor and indoor records ... tied for seventh at the NCAA regional meet (12-10) ... fourth at the MWC outdoor championships ... had NCAA regional-qualifying jumps in seven of nine meets ... finished first in three of five outdoor meets, including a school-record leap of 13-3.5 at the Cal-Nevada Championships ... finished the outdoor season as the 34th-ranked American and 150th in the world ... placed fourth at the MWC indoor championships ... set an indoor school record, clearing 13-1.5, at the Pole Vault Summit.
2003 - Continued to produce solid results for the Aztecs in her second season ... set the school indoor record and tied the outdoor record ... tied the outdoor record at the NCAA regional, where she placed eighth ... third at the MWC outdoor championships, clearing 12-8 ... logged NCAA regional-qualifying jumps at all but one meet ... runner-up at both the Steve Scott and UCSD Invite ... cleared 13-0 in winning the pole vault at Cal State Northridge ... also took first at the San Diego City Championships and competed in the javelin for the first time in her career ... logged back-to-back indoor school records of 12-10 at the Mountain T's Invitational and the Washington Indoor Invite ... mark ranks third in conference history ... earned Mountain West Conference Athlete of the Week honors on Feb. 11.
2002 - Capped a phenomenal freshman campaign by placing 17th at the NCAA outdoor championships held at Louisiana State University ... set a meet record of 13-1.5 en route to the Mountain West Conference outdoor pole vault title ... her vault of 13-1.50 was second-best in school history ... recorded NCAA provisional qualifying marks 10 different times during the outdoor season ... won seven individual meets ... competed at the USA Track and Field national championships at Stanford ... set the freshman record for SDSU pole vaulters during both the indoor and outdoor seasons ... MWC indoor champion with a meet record of 12-7.50 ... NCAA provisional qualifier, who tied the school record at the Reno Pole Vault Summit at 12-9.50 with teammate Tricia Gutierrez ... MWC all-academic team honoree.
High School - Four-year varsity letterwinner at Morro Bay High School ... served as a team captain ... earned team MVP honors and was named her school's female athlete of the year ... California state high school meet champion ... set the current national high school record for the pole vault with a personal record jump of 13-8 ... two-time former junior national record holder ... featured in the January 2002 issue of Track and Field News as a prize recruit ... also appeared in Sports Illustrated for Women in the "Name That Sport" section.
Personal - Shayla Rose Balentine was born Aug. 8, 1982, in Victorville ... daughter of Michele West ... enjoys surfing, traveling and shopping ... major is sociology ... has aspirations of competing in the Olympics.