2023 Track & Field Roster
Long, Courtney
Courtney Long
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Allatoona
- Hometown:
- Acworth, Ga.
Bio
2023: Outdoor – Tied for third in the pole vault at the Spec Towns & Torrin Lawrence Invitational, reaching a height of 3.40 meters/11 feet, 1.75 inches.
Indoor – Recorded Georgia’s best mark of the season in the pole vault, reaching 3.75 meters/12 feet, 3.50 inches to place seventh at the Tiger Paw Invite…Finished sixth in the pole vault at the MLK Invite with a mark of 3.70m/12-1.50.
2022: Outdoor – Had a season-best mark of 3.70/12-1.50 for seventh in the pole vault at the Georgia Tech Invitational.
Indoor - Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs.
2021: Outdoor – Had a season-best mark of 12 feet, 5 ½ inches to take sixth in the pole vault at the FSU Relays.
Indoor - Ramsey Scholarship for Academic & Athletic Scholarship recipient...Had a season-best mark of 12 feet, 8 ¾ inches for fifth in the pole vault at the USC Indoor Open…Competed at the SEC Championships.
2020: Indoor – Topped out at 12 feet, 3 ½ inches in the pole vault for sixth place at the Orange & Purple Elite meet.
2019: Outdoor - Had a season-best mark of 12 feet, 10 inches to take 26th in the pole vault at the Beach Invite…Was fourth at the Spec Towns Invite after registering a mark of 12-5.50...Did not reach a height at the SEC Championships...Honored as one of UGA’s eight Presidential Scholar-Athletes for Spring 2019, accruing a perfect 4.0 GPA while taking 14 credit hours.
Indoor - Soared to a season-best pole vault--by nearly a whole foot--in her first postseason meet at the SEC Indoor Championships, clearing 12 feet, 11 inches for ninth place...Reached 11 feet, 11.75 inches twice in the regular season at the Bob Pollock and Blazer Invitationals...Finished sixth at the Clemson Invitational (11’9.75”).
High School: Two-time New Balance Nationals Indoor and Outdoor Elite Qualifier in pole vault…Back-to-back GHSA 6A state titles…Tied state 6A pole vault record and set the Allatoona record…2016-18 First Team All-County and three-time Cobb County champion…Three-time region pole vault champion and two-time 100-meter hurdles region champion…Also claimed region titles in the 300mH and 4x400m as a senior…State qualifier in the pole vault as a freshman and state runner-up as a sophomore…Vince J. Dooley Award Recipient…Named Cobb County’s Most Positive Female Track and Field Athlete (Positive Athlete Georgia Regional Winner)…Named Most Valuable Field Performer or Runner all four years…Part of school record 4x400m relay team and set Allatoona record in the 100mH and 300mH…Personal-best mark of 13 feet in the pole vault….Also competed for the Allatoona volleyball team…Earned Allatoona’s Track and Field Academic Award for having the team’s highest grade point average…Member of National Honor Society, Beta Club, Tri-M Music Honor Society, HOSA, Allatoona High School Orchestra, women’s track and field representative in Athletic Leadership and Captain’s Council, earned Senator Lindsey Tippins Scholarship, Pickett’s Mill Elementary Scholarship, Atlanta Track Club 2018 Patty Foell Scholarship Award, Allatoona High School Top 20 Award (4.4 GPA, top 20 in the graduating class), Academic Excellence in AP Government and Politics, AP Biology, Spanish III, Georgia Certificate of Merit Scholar and AP Scholar with Distinction.
Personal: Born Dec. 24, 1999…Daughter of Tommy and Kimberly Long…Both parents, along with two uncles and an aunt, all attending UGA…Intending to major in Biological Engineering.
Indoor – Recorded Georgia’s best mark of the season in the pole vault, reaching 3.75 meters/12 feet, 3.50 inches to place seventh at the Tiger Paw Invite…Finished sixth in the pole vault at the MLK Invite with a mark of 3.70m/12-1.50.
2022: Outdoor – Had a season-best mark of 3.70/12-1.50 for seventh in the pole vault at the Georgia Tech Invitational.
Indoor - Did not compete for the Lady Bulldogs.
2021: Outdoor – Had a season-best mark of 12 feet, 5 ½ inches to take sixth in the pole vault at the FSU Relays.
Indoor - Ramsey Scholarship for Academic & Athletic Scholarship recipient...Had a season-best mark of 12 feet, 8 ¾ inches for fifth in the pole vault at the USC Indoor Open…Competed at the SEC Championships.
2020: Indoor – Topped out at 12 feet, 3 ½ inches in the pole vault for sixth place at the Orange & Purple Elite meet.
2019: Outdoor - Had a season-best mark of 12 feet, 10 inches to take 26th in the pole vault at the Beach Invite…Was fourth at the Spec Towns Invite after registering a mark of 12-5.50...Did not reach a height at the SEC Championships...Honored as one of UGA’s eight Presidential Scholar-Athletes for Spring 2019, accruing a perfect 4.0 GPA while taking 14 credit hours.
Indoor - Soared to a season-best pole vault--by nearly a whole foot--in her first postseason meet at the SEC Indoor Championships, clearing 12 feet, 11 inches for ninth place...Reached 11 feet, 11.75 inches twice in the regular season at the Bob Pollock and Blazer Invitationals...Finished sixth at the Clemson Invitational (11’9.75”).
High School: Two-time New Balance Nationals Indoor and Outdoor Elite Qualifier in pole vault…Back-to-back GHSA 6A state titles…Tied state 6A pole vault record and set the Allatoona record…2016-18 First Team All-County and three-time Cobb County champion…Three-time region pole vault champion and two-time 100-meter hurdles region champion…Also claimed region titles in the 300mH and 4x400m as a senior…State qualifier in the pole vault as a freshman and state runner-up as a sophomore…Vince J. Dooley Award Recipient…Named Cobb County’s Most Positive Female Track and Field Athlete (Positive Athlete Georgia Regional Winner)…Named Most Valuable Field Performer or Runner all four years…Part of school record 4x400m relay team and set Allatoona record in the 100mH and 300mH…Personal-best mark of 13 feet in the pole vault….Also competed for the Allatoona volleyball team…Earned Allatoona’s Track and Field Academic Award for having the team’s highest grade point average…Member of National Honor Society, Beta Club, Tri-M Music Honor Society, HOSA, Allatoona High School Orchestra, women’s track and field representative in Athletic Leadership and Captain’s Council, earned Senator Lindsey Tippins Scholarship, Pickett’s Mill Elementary Scholarship, Atlanta Track Club 2018 Patty Foell Scholarship Award, Allatoona High School Top 20 Award (4.4 GPA, top 20 in the graduating class), Academic Excellence in AP Government and Politics, AP Biology, Spanish III, Georgia Certificate of Merit Scholar and AP Scholar with Distinction.
Personal: Born Dec. 24, 1999…Daughter of Tommy and Kimberly Long…Both parents, along with two uncles and an aunt, all attending UGA…Intending to major in Biological Engineering.
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