2025-26 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Puckett, Evan

Evan Puckett
- Position:
- Pole Vault
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Gallatin, Tenn.
- High School:
- Station Camp
- Previous School:
- Memphis
Bio
Personal Records
Indoor Track
- Pole Vault: 5.47m (2025)
Outdoor Track
- Pole Vault: 5.51m (2025)
SEC Scoring
Indoor Track
- 2025 - Pole Vault - 3rd - 5.35m
HONORS
- 2025 Indoor All-SEC Third Team
- 2025 Indoor SEC Track & Field Bronze Medalist - Pole Vault
- 2024 CSC Academic All-District
- 2024 USTFCCCA Track & Field All-Academic Athlete
- 2023-24 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
- 2023 Indoor AAC Bronze Medalist - Pole Vault
- 2022 Indoor AAC Bronze Medalist - Pole Vault
2025 TRACK & FIELD
Outdoor
- Earned a lifetime-best jump mark of 5.51m (18-1) at the Tennessee Invite (4/4)
- Placed second in the pole vault with a mark of 5.41m (17-9) at the USF Alumni Invite (3/21)
Indoor
- Earned a share of bronze in the pole vault with a leap of 5.35m (17-6.5) in his SEC Championship debut (2/27)
- Placed third with a new vault of 5.47m (17-11.25) at the Virginia Tech Challenge (2/21)
- Finished first in the unseeded pole vault at the Doc Hale VT Meet (2/7) with a jump of 5.40m (17-8.5)
- Set a lifetime-best of 5.42m (17-9.25) to win the pole vault at the Vanderbilt Invitational (1/17) and place himself on Tennessee's all-time indoor top 10 list
- Competed indoors as a Vol for the first time at the McFerrin 12 Degree Invite (1/10) where he took fourth after clearing 5.32m (17-5.5) in the pole vault
2024 TRACK & FIELD
Outdoor
- Competed three times in his first outdoor season with the Vols before sustaining a season-ending injury at the Tennessee Invite
- Finished third at the Tennessee Invite (4/5) in the pole vault with a leap of 5.05m (16-6.75)
- Made his Tennessee debut at the UCF Black & Gold Invite (3/15) and won the men's pole vault competition with an outdoor PB clearance of 5.33m (17-5.75)
PRIOR TO TENNESSEE
- Spent the first two years of his collegiate career at the University of Memphis where he was recruited and trained by current UT pole vault coach Kyle Ellis
- Cleared an outdoor personal-best height of 5.20m (17-0.75) at the 2023 NCAA East Prelims, finishing 17th at the meet to conclude his Memphis career
- Earned back-to-back AAC bronze medals in the indoor pole vault in 2022 and 2023, the latter achieved by clearing an indoor PR of 5.24m (17-2.25)
- Notched his first collegiate victory after clearing 5.23m (17-1.75) at the 2023 Indoor Music City Challenge
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