Performance List
2022 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
2022 Louisiana Sports Writers Association Collegiate All-Louisiana Track & Field Team, pole vault
2022 All-Southland Conference Outdoor Track & Field First Team, Pole Vault
2021 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
2024 Outdoor Season: Cleared an outdoor season-best 16-0.75 at the Southland Conference Championships, narrowly missing the podium with a fourth-place finish ... cleared 15-11.25 in the pole vault at the Keyth Talley Invitational ... placed second in the pole vault at the Louisiana Classic, clearing 15-7 ... also finished second in the pole vault at the Leon Johnson Invitational, clearing 15-7.25 ... posted season bests in the shot put (31-10) and discus (83-11) at the Leon Johnson Invitational ... recorded an 18-7.25 in the long jump at the McNeese Cowboy Relays.
2024 Indoor Season: Competed in the pole vault ... cleared a season-best 16-2.75 at the Southland Conference Championships to earn the silver medal ... placed seventh at the Crimson Elite with a height of 15-5.75 ... cleared 5.5 at the Jarvis Scott Open ... no heighted in each of his first two meets.
2023 Outdoor Season: Out with injury.
2023 Indoor Season: Competed in four indoor meets in the pole vault and 60-meters, recording a height in three meets in the pole vault ... Cleared a season-best 16-2.75 in the pole vault at the Tyson Invitational ... Cleared 15-8.25 in the pole vault in the Pittsburg State Invitational, finishing second ... Ran a 7.41 60-meters in the Pittsburg State Invitational ... Also competed at the Corky Classic and the Southland Conference Indoor Championships, no-heighting in the latter.
2022 Outdoor Season: Captured the Southland Conference event title in the pole vault with a season-best 16-4.75 … matched that height in the NSU Demon Last Chance Meet, but fell just short of qualifying for the NCAA East Prelims … cleared 16 feet five different times, including winning at TCU and placing second at the NSU Leon Invitational and third at Texas State … added a third-place finish at Baylor.
2022 Indoor Season: Competed in four indoor meets in the pole vault, recording a height in just one … cleared 15-5 at Texas Tech to finish eighth … no-heighted in three meets, including the SLC Championships.
2021 Outdoor Season: Competed in five meets in pole vault … personal record 16-6.75 at the Ice Breaker Classic, which is second-best in NSU history … other meet in which he recorded a mark was a 15-3.5 at the SLC Championships, placing ninth.
2021 Indoor Season: Competed in the pole vault at the Southland Conference Indoor Championships, placing ninth with a 15-3 … in his first career meet, vaulted 16-1.25 at the Texas A&M Ted Nelson Invitational, placing seventh.
High School: Pole vaulter who placed second at the district meet twice … as a sophomore, finished third at the area meet and fifth at regionals … battled injuries as a junior with his senior track season being wiped out by the pandemic … played football for one season on a district championship team.
Personal: Son of Chad and Heather Barrios … older brother Grant, younger sister Elise … dad Chad was a former track athlete at NSU … Grant is a U.S. Marine … Hayden trained at the Olympic Trainer Center in Colorado Springs for gymnastics as a 10-year-old ... business administration major who wants to obtain his MSF and then work in banking.
