Assistant Coach Dave Fritz

Pole Vault

01/01/00

- Dave Fritz enters his first season coaching the pole vaulters at William and Mary after helping some of the sports’ biggest names achieve national and international success.

Since 2002, Fritz has worked as the assistant jumps coach at Suhr Sports in New York, helping both professional and amateur pole vaulters to unprecedented heights. Most notably, he coached Jennifer Stuczynski from an absolute novice to become the reigning U.S. record holder in the women’s pole vault (16-0), the world’s second-highest vault ever. Along the way, Stuczynski also captured four national titles, indoors in 2005 and 2007, and outdoors in 2006 and 2007.

Among amateur athletes, his success has been equally compelling, producing the top-two high school girl’s pole vaulters. Mary Saxer was the first high school girl to clear 14 feet, and set the national high school girl’s record indoors of 14-3.25. Tiffany Maskulinski also cleared 14-0 under Fritz’ tutelage, only the second girl to do so. At the collegiate level, he coached at the Rochester Institute of Technology last season, producing a pair of school records and the school’s first NCAA qualifier in the pole vault.

A three-time All-Big East vaulter at Virginia Tech, Fritz graduated in 2004 with a bachelors degree in computer science. In the summer of 2006, he was the head clinician for pole vault at the Region II Junior Olympics clinic. Fritz holds a USATF Level II coaching certification, and is also certified by the Pole Vault Safety Board.

Fritz' Degrees
at Virginia Tech
Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science