Jeremy Ashcraft

Vaulting his way to the top of the state’s biggest stage, Jeremy Ashcraft became Eastern High School’s first state champion in any sport when he cleared 15 feet to win the 1994 IHSAA state pole vault championship in his senior season. He also won the Robert S. Hinshaw Mental Attitude Award in that state finals appearance, becoming the first and only Eastern male to win the award. Today, he is one of two males to win a state championship in track and field for Eastern. His 1994 vault of 16-1 remains a Howard County best. Other highlights of Ashcraft’s career at Eastern included earning All-American status in March 1994 when he placed second in the pole vault at the Interscholastic Junior TAC National Track Meet at the Carrier Dome in New York, where he cleared 16-1. Ashcraft continued his track and field success at Purdue. As the Boilermakers’ top pole vaulter in his senior season, he captured the conference title on the last vault of his Purdue career in the 1999 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championship. Ashcraft cleared a vault of 15-11.25 good enough to beat out six other competitors, who had matched his clearance in a tiebreaker. Ashcraft, a multi-sport athlete, also played football for Eastern. As a senior, he was named to the Kokomo Tribune AllArea football first team as a defensive back and also earned an All-Mid-Indiana Conference selection. Jeremy Ashcraft and his wife, Rachel, of 20 years, currently live in Cig Harbor, WA and have three children, Kieran, Kris and Quinn. He is the Director of Technology for EdGate Holdings.