2007 Outdoor: Won her second straight WAC title in the outdoor pole vault at the WAC Championships ... Hit a NCAA Regional Qualifying mark in every competition of the year ... Cleared 12-11¾ and finished eighth at the NCAA West Regional, despite breaking a bone in her foot during warm-ups ... Qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships, but withdrew because of the injury ... Earned WAC Athlete of the Week honors after clearing 13-5¼ at the Duane Hartman Invitational
2007 Indoor: Had a breakthrough senior season, qualifying for the NCAA Indoor Championships for the first time in her career ... Finished fifth at the NCAA Championships with a school-record vault of 13-9¼ to earn her first career All-America honors ... Won the WAC title in the pole vault, making it three straight ... Was the only WAC woman to clear 13 feet during the indoor season ... Finished her indoor career undefeated against WAC competition ... Earned WAC Athlete of the Week honors after breaking the school record at the Husky Classic
2006 Outdoor: Earned WAC Outdoor Athlete of the Week honors after setting school, meet, and stadium records at the Pelluer Invitational with a vault of 12-9½ ... Broke her own record again three weeks later with a vault of 13-4½ at the Duane Hartman Invite ... Broke the school record once again in a first-place effort at the WAC Outdoor Championship with a vault of 13-6¼, which is also a Cooke Field record ... Tied for 18th at the NCAA West Regional
2006 Indoor: Won the pole vault title at the WAC Indoor Championship with a school-record vault of 13-3¾ to help the women to a second-place team finish ... Vaulted 12-7½ at the McDonald’s Collegiate Meet to break her own indoor school record earlier in the season
2005: Won the WAC Indoor Pole Vault title ... Set a UI record in the vault at 12-6¼ ... Redshirted the 2005 outdoor season.
2004: Established new school records in both the indoor (11-10) and outdoor (12-4) pole vault ... Also ranks fifth at Idaho with a mark of 136-5 in the javelin ... Tied for third in the pole vault at the Big West Outdoor Championships with a vault of 11-9¾ ... Broke her own school record with a 14th-place finish at the NCAA West Regional
Personal: Full Name is Melinda Ann Owen... born Oct. 30, 1984 at St. Ignaious, Mont. ... daughter of Bob and Sandra Owen ... has two brothers, Pat and Kevin, and one sister, Becky ... is the cousin of Idaho track & field athlete Molly Burt ... was a three-sport athlete at Polson HS, where she was all-state in volleyball and track and field ... was a state champion in the pole vault, javelin and 4x400m relay... Finished high school with a 4.0 gpa and was class valedictorian ... majoring in elementary education at UI.
Personal Bests:
Indoor:
Pole Vault: 13-9.25 (SR)
Outdoor:
Pole Vault: 13-6.25 (SR)
Javalin: 136-5
