Parker Samuelson

Career Honors and Recognition

2024 First-Year SEC Honor Roll

Season and Career Results

2025

Indoor

Pole vaulted in one meet during the indoor season after recovering from a lingering injury … Cleared 4.72m (15-5.75) to finish sixth overall at the USC Invite.

Outdoor

Took part in six outdoor meets in the pole vault, clearing the bar in five of the six … Cleared 5.00m (16-4.75) at the SEC Championship to finish 20^th overall … Was able to clear a new personal best height of 5.07m (16-7.5) on two occasions, doing so to place seventh at the Michael Johnson Invite and also at the East Coast Relays to finish runner-up … Won the Gamecock Invite pole vault when he cleared 4.87m (15-11.75) … Opened his outdoor season with a runner-up finish at the Weems Baskin Invitational, clearing 4.60m (15-1).

2024

Indoor
Competed in seven total events during his first indoor season … Recorded a runner-up finish in the men’s pole vault at the Clemson Opener in his collegiate debut, clearing 4.55m (14-11) … Finished third at both the Gamecock Opener (4.66m) and the Carolina Challenge (4.76m) … Jumped a personal best height of 4.85m (15-11) at the SC Invite, finishing fourth … Competed in the SEC Indoor Championship but was unable to register a mark.

Outdoor
Competed in eight meets during the outdoor season, taking part in the pole vault and one 4x100m relay … Competed in the SEC Outdoor Championship in the pole vault but was unable to clear his opening height … Opened the season with an outdoor personal best in the pole vault at the Shamrock Invitational, clearing 4.86m (15-11.25) to finish third overall … Ran the 4x100m in his home debut, finishing with a time of 44.02 … His best placement on the season was a runner-up finish at the Gamecock Invitational when he cleared 4.75m (15-7).

Pre- South Carolina
High School
Earned four letters in track & field and one baseball letter for Stratford High School in Houston, Texas … Competed in pole vault for the Spartans and was a two-time state qualifier … Recorded a high school personal best of 4.75m.

Personal
Son of Marc and Jamie Samuelson, born on Feb. 28, 2004 … Has a younger sister named Emma … Grandfather, George Bryant, played basketball at Eastern Kentucky … Plans to major in biomedical engineering at Carolina, hopeful to become a prosthetics designer in the future … Chose to come to Columbia over going to University of Colorado, Tulane University and Colorado School of Mines.

Personal Records

Indoor

Outdoor