2018 Track:
Indoor: Posted a season-best clearance of 3.80 meters at the ACC Championships. Outdoor: Set a new PR in the pole vault by reaching a clearance of 4.14 meters at the Georgia Tech Invitational to finish first … cleared 4.00 meters four weeks in a row … finished first (Georgia Tech Invite, Tiger Track Classic), second (North Florida Invite) and eighth (ACC Championships) to qualify for NCAA East Preliminaries … cleared 3.78 meters at Regionals.
2017 Track:
Indoor: Finished fourth at the Orange and Purple Classic … Took second at the South Alabama Invitational with a mark of 3.80m … Took third at the ACC Championships for First Team All-ACC with a career-best mark of 4.06m. Outdoor: Took second at both the Florida Relays and Tennessee Relays … Posted a career-best mark of 4.10m at the Florida Relays … Won the pole vault at the Georgia Tech Invitational … Finished fifth at the ACC Championships, earning Second Team All-ACC.
2016 Track:
Indoor: Finished 12th in the pole vault at the ACC Indoor Championships with a personal-best mark of 3.87m (12-8.25) … Finished fourth at the BSC Panther Icebreaker with a mark of 3.70m (12-1.5). Outdoor: Had three top-five finishes, including a third-place finish at the Georgia Tech Invitational with a vault of 3.75m (12-3.5).
2015 Track:
Indoor: Placed fourth in the pole vault with a height of 3.53 meters (11-7) … Posted two more top-10 finishes in the pole vault including an eighth-place finish at the Doc Hale VT Elite Meet (3.63m; 11-1.075) and a sixth-place finish at the Vanderbilt Indoor Invitational (3.65m; 11-11.75). Outdoor: Logged a season-high vault at 3.71m (12-2) at the ACC Championships … Placed ninth in the pole vault at the Alabama Relays and the Yellow Jacket Invite.
High School:
Competed in the pole vault for six seasons … Finished eighth in World Youth Championships in the summer of 2013 … Personal best of 4.00 meters during 2013 outdoor competition in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Personal:
Full name is Ksenia Novikova … Born July 2, 1996 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. … Parents are Alex and Natalia Noviskova … Hobbies include reading, surfing, riding and skateboarding … Chose to attend Tech because of the academics and opportunity to compete in pole vaulting at a high level … Intends to major in business administration.
