2016 Women's Track & Field Roster
Roster
Lydia French
- Position:
- Jumps
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Thousand Oaks, CA
- High School:
- Thousand Oaks HS
Lydia French TFRRS Page
2016 (GRADUATE)
OUTDOOR: Did not compete.
INDOOR: Did not compete.
2015 (R-SENIOR)
OUTDOOR: Finished second at the Big West Championship by tying her career best leap 5-10 1/2...went 5-10 1/2 for the first time when she won the Bulldog Invitational Apr. 25 (the fifth highest in school history)...advanced to NCAA West Regional and finished 15th with a clearance of 5-8...won the CSUN Invitational with a leap of 5-9 3/4...was second on two other occasions (Sacramento State and Texas Invitational)…named Academic All-Conference.
INDOOR: Finished ninth at MPSF Championship with a clearance 5-5 1/4...posted season-best clearance of 5-6 1/2 at the Lobo Collegiate Open...named Academic All-MPSF.
2014 (R-JUNIOR)
OUTDOOR: Won the Big West high jump championship...topped teammate Ashley Henry by converting her first attempt at 5-9 3/4 to win the conference crown...her height ranks sixth in CSUN history...advanced to the NCAA West Regional where she no-heighted on her attempts.
INDOOR: Reached the high jump final at the MPSF Championship where she finished eighth with a top height of 5-6...achieved her season-best of 5-7 at three different meets; Mountain T's Invitational, NYU Shootout and Great Dane Classic.
PRIOR TO CSUN: Attended Moorpark College from 2011-13...won the 2011 CCCAA Championship in the jump...was named school Female Athlete of the Year for the Raiders in 2011...earned her Associate of Arts degree in 2013.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2010 graduate of Thousand Oaks High School...won the state championship in the high jump as a senior...cleared a top height of 5-10 for the Lancers...was also a forward for the soccer team.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Donna and Richard French...a cinema-TV arts major...has two brothers, Chris and Garrett and one sister, Aly...favorites include the Dallas Cowboys, the movie "Into the Wild", sushi and the music of Rascal Flatts...chose CSUN because of the "amazing track program and great Russian language program" ... says of her most embarrassing moment: "I'm extremely accident prone so every day is an embarrassing moment".
OUTDOOR BEST
| High Jump | 5-10 1/2 | Big West Championship | 5/16/15 |
INDOOR BEST
| High Jump | 5-7 | 3x, last, Mountain T's Invitational | 2/8/14 |
