Saxer gained an athletic scholarship to attend Notre Dame University in 2005 and chose to study marketing in the Mendoza College of Business . By February the following year she had already broken the school record with a vault of . She was runner-up at the Big East Conference indoor championship and also managed ninth in the long jump . Outdoors she won at the Mt. SAC Relays and placed fourth in the Big East pole vault . Her performances stagnated in the 2007 season , as she failed to get over the four-meter mark that year . She repeated as the Big East runner-up indoors , but was out of the top three at the outdoor Big East meet . She had similar placings in the vault and long jump at the 2008 Big East Indoors , coming ninth and tenth in the events , including a long jump lifetime best indoors of . She won at the Mt. SAC Relays for a second time and claimed her first conference title at the Big East outdoor championship , where she was also in the top ten in long jump . Her best mark that year in the vault was . Her best college performances came in the 2009 season . She began with a Big East indoor win with a height of and then placed ninth at the NCAA Women 's Indoor Track and Field Championship . She defended her Big East outdoor title with a vault of before setting an outright best of to place third at the NCAA Women 's Outdoor Track and Field Championship . She also entered the 2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships , but did not record a valid mark
Big East Conference
Big East Conference (1979–2013)
Mary Saxer