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Texas Lutheran University

Hall of Fame

Ligia Bolivar

  • Class
  • Induction
    2023
  • Sport(s)
    Women's Track & Field

Ligia Bolivar, a two-time All-American and three-time American Southwest Conference champion in the pole vault at TLU, qualified for six total NCAA Division III National Championship meets – all in the pole vault. Bolivar competed in three indoor national championships and three outdoor national championships in her career earning NCAA Division III All-American status at  the 2010 and 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships. She finished sixth overall at the 2011 championships with a clearance of 11 feet, 11.25 inches and eighth at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships, with a clearance of 12 feet, 2.75 inches. She also finished ninth at the 2011 NCAA DIII Indoor Championship and 10th at the 2012 NCAA DIII Outdoor Championships while finishing in the top 15 in 2010 and 2012's NCAA Indoor Championships. Over the course of her career, Bolivar accumulated 14 meet wins in the pole vault during her career.

In addition to her four conference title wins, she won meets at Texas Tech, Incarnate Word, Central Missouri, and Trinity. The lone year (her freshman year) in which she did not win the conference title, she was the conference runner-up. In addition to her 14 career pole vault wins, she finished second 13 times at meets. She finished in the top three at a meet on 33 occasions. She was a member of four American Southwest Conference women's team championships at TLU, was a three-time All-ASC award winner, and was a three-time ASC Academic All-Conference honoree.

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