SPU Track Coach Wins at Masters Championships
August 10, 2004

DECATUR, Ill. (Aug. 10) – Jack Hoyt, head coach of track and field for Seattle Pacific University, took the men’s over-40 title in the high jump and was runner-up in the pole vault at the USA Masters Championships.

Hoyt, an SPU alumnus and former All-American and Olympic hopeful in the decathlon, cleared 6 feet, 3 1/2 inches (1.92m) and won the high jump on a tiebreaker. New York’s Igor Agaev finished at the same height.

In the pole vault, Hoyt went over the bar at 13-11 1/4 (4.25m). Jonathan Bartos of Ohio was first at 14-5 1/4. Hoyt was also fourth in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.46 seconds.