Debra Vento

Position:
Jumps
Height:
5-11
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Marlboro, N.J.

Junior: 2006 ACC Champion in the high jump outdoors, Vento won the ECAC indoor high jump title and the ACC silver medal indoors with her seasonal best jump of 5-11.25 at both meets ... was troubled outdoors with a series of nagging injuries, but still managed to qualify for her 6th NCAA meet in six tries when she placed 7th in the NCAA East Regional meet outdoors ... at the NCAA championships in Sacramento, Vento was one miss away from qualifying for her sixth straight NCAA high jump final, finishing in a tie for 15th place ... Vento still had a consistently strong 2006, capturing high jump titles indoors at Boston and Maryland and outdoors at Raleigh, Duke and her first-ever ACC title at Wake Forest ...

Sophomore: Two-time All-America in 2005 with a third-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Sacramento and a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championship in Fayetteville ... won the ECAC Indoor Championship in the high jump at Boston and finished with the ECAC silver medal in Princeton at the outdoor championships ... personal best of 6-1.5 came at the ACC Championships in Tallahassee, where her third-place finish would have won any other conference in the nation ... cleared six feet or higher on five seperate occassions in 2005 ... two-time All-ACC and All-East qualifier ... won four indoor meets and two outdoor competitions outright ... high jump champion at the Duke Invitational, Raleigh Relays, and UNC indoor opener ... gold medalist at both the Terrier Classic in Boston and the Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York ... continued perfect streak of qualifying for NCAA Championships in both indoor and outdoor seasons ...

Freshman: Duke’s first-ever six-footer in the women’s high jump ... chosen as Duke’s top freshman during the indoor and outdoor seasons, as well as the Blue Devils’ top field performer ... competed at the NCAA Championships during both the indoor and outdoor seasons ... set new Duke-best standards in the indoor and outdoor high jump ... captured eight first-place finishes (indoor and outdoor combined) ... an All-ACC performer, placing third at both the indoor and outdoor conference championships ... took part in the USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships in late June, finishing third to earn Verizon U.S. Junior All-America status ...

Prep: 2003 adidas Outdoor Champion in the high jump ... four-time New Jersey State Meet Champion ... New Jersey State Championship meet record holder (5-10) ... finished third at the 2003 Nike Indoor Classic.

PB Indoors:
High Jump 5-11.5

PB Outdoors:
High Jump 6-1.5

Honors: All-ACC Indoors (2004, Â‘05, Â‘06), All-ACC Outdoors (2004, Â‘05, Â‘06), ACC Champion Outdoors (2006), All-East Indoors (2005, Â‘06), All-East Outdoors (2004, Â‘05, Â‘06), ECAC Champion Indoors (2005, Â‘06), All-America Indoors (2005), All-America Outdoors (2005)