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Breaux Bridge pole vaulter Chris Roy is used to setting goals and then attaining them.
If that continues, the UL track and field program will certainly be the beneficiary after the reigning Class 4A state champion signed with the Ragin' Cajuns on Tuesday.
"It was an awesome feeling to sign and make up my mind where I was going to go to college," Roy said.
Roy selected a full offer from the Cajuns over a full offer from McNeese and a partial from LSU.
"All the hard work has paid off," he said.
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After a freshman year when he "wasn't very good at all," Roy began making progress as a sophomore working under Breaux Bridge coaches Pat Arceneaux and Ryan Frederick. That's when the idea of spinning it into a college scholarship began.
His first goal was to surpass 13 feet, 7 inches. By the first outdoor meet of his junior season, Roy had become his family's champion at 13-8. His father, Donald Roy, was a pole vaulter at Breaux Bridge and his grandfather, Allen Crochet, pole vaulted at Acadiana High.
This season, he set a personal-best of 16-6 and won the 4A state meet with a height of 16-0.
Now that he's signed, the bar has been raised even higher.
"The UL record is 17-7 indoors and 17-8 outdoors," Roy said. "Hopefully, I'll have that by my sophomore year. My junior and senior seasons, I'd like to win the national championship."
By contrast of his personal-best height this season, 15-3 was good enough to win the Sun Belt Conference title.
"I just love it," Roy said of the event. "When I first started, I didn't get the adrenaline rush like it is now, because I wasn't jumping as high. But it's definitely an adrenaline rush now."
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