Haley Blount begins her second season of coaching track and field, working with the distance corps and vaulters, after wrapping up her competitive career by raising the bar on her own NSU school record in the pole vault. She earned her master’s degree in sport administration this past December.
Last summer, she worked an internship with USA Track & Field, including being part of the event management staff for the USA Junior Nationals and the USA Championships.
Blount broke her own record for the final time in the 2006 Ty Terrell Relays hosted by Lamar. She cleared 11-6 1/4, topping her year-old mark by a centimeter.
She was an All-Louisiana vaulter who finished fifth indoors and seventh outdoors at the 2005 Southland Conference Championships. She was a dean’s list student as an undergraduate and made the SLC Honor Roll 
while earning Collegiate National Honor Society status. Blount was the 2003 Freshman Female Academic Athlete of the Year.
A product of Midway High School and Hewitt, Texas, Blount was fifth at the Texas State meet with a clearance of 10-0. She was MVP of her school’s volleyball team while also lettering two years in powerlifting. She received the UIL Scholars’ Award and the 2000-01 All-Academics Award.
A health and exercise science major as an undergraduate, Blount was also a member of Tri Sigma Sorority. She is the only daughter of Terry Blount and Vickie Duncan. Her father, a sportswriter, is a motorsports analyst for ESPN and was a major league baseball draft pick out of high school. Her brother, Luke (21), is a creative writing and political science major and a member of the sports information staff at Baylor.
