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Mary Saxer
USAWomenMary Saxer (born June 21, 1987) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. She holds a personal record of 4.71 m (15 ft 5+1⁄4 in) for the event, set in 2014. Saxer excelled in her youth, breaking the North, Central American and Caribbean junior record for the event with 4.32 m (14 ft 2 in) in 2005 as a high school student.
She did not improve on this mark while competing collegiately for the University of Notre Dame, although she did win three Big East Conference titles and was third at the 2009 NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship. She finally bettered her mark at the 2010 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, where she was third in her first national podium finish.
She was the 2012 national runner-up indoors and represented her country at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Saxer won the 2014 USA Indoor title and made her second international appearance at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships.