March 24, 2021 (From March 15, 2016)
Women's Track and Field senior Cimran Virdi won her third consecutive pole vault National Championship this weekend at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championship with a new MIT and facility record height of 13-feet, 6.5-inches (4.13m). It took Virdi only five jumps to win her third straight title as she sealed it on her first attempt of the 13-feet, 1.5-inches (4.00m) height after she cleared the 12-feet, 11.5-inches (3.95m) mark with ease. In 16 years since the pole vault has been contested in the Division III Women's Championship, Virdi is the first student-athlete and only second among NCAA women’s student-athletes to win three-straight titles.
