California Collegiate Athletics Association

Two-time NCAA champion pole vaulter Chaunte Mitchell is raising the bar yet again, as a member of the CCAA’s 2020 Hall of Fame Class. 

A five-time All-American for Stanislaus State (three outdoor, two indoor), Mitchell was one of the finest pole vaulters to ever hail from the CCAA. She was named the 2003 CCAA Freshman of the Year before picking up three conference pole vault titles (2004, 2005 and 2007).

Mitchell was a pole vaulting pioneer, as she became the first woman in NCAA Division II to capture back-to-back outdoor titles in the pole vault, winning championships in 2004 and 2005. She is one of three women to ever win back-to-back pole vault national titles during the outdoor season.

She picked up her first NCAA title by clearing 3.90 meters (12-9½). In 2005, her second title was won by leaping 4.01 meters (13-1¾), a NCAA Division II outdoor championship record at the time.

Mitchell’s 4.09-meter (13-5¼) leap in 2005 still stands as the outdoor pole vaulting record at Stanislaus State. After graduating in 2008 with a degree in liberal studies, Mitchell went on to work in human resources and now resides in Southern California. She was inducted into the Stanislaus State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015, and earned her place in the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame in 2018.