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Junior (2007): Garnered indoor and outdoor All-America honors when he took sixth in the men's high jump at both the NCAA indoor and outdoor championships...set a new lifetime-best mark with a 7-3.25 (meters) to win the high jump at the NCAA West Regional...the 7-3.25 score ties Wright for seventh on Cal's all-time list...won the Pac-10 title in the high jump with a 7-3 (2.21 meters), which tied his lifetime-best mark...he also jumped that height to win the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational... competed at the USA championships, taking 10th overall (7-01.75 (2.18 meters)...tied for sixth at last year's NCAA West Regional (6-9)...posted a Cal school-record and NCAA provisional-qualifying 7-2.5 to win at the MPSF championships.
Sophomore (2006): During indoors, jumped a season-best 2.13 meters (6-11) at the Tyson Invitational...outdoors, won the high jump (1.98 meters, 6-06) at the Big Meet and at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational (2.05 meters, 6-08).
Freshman (2005): Recorded Cal's second-best score of 6-11.75 (2.13m) in the high jump at the Pac-10 championships.
High School: Wright completed a successful high school career at St. Mary's of Berkeley before graduating in 2004...honors included the California state high jump title, winning at the prestigious Golden West Invitational, finishing second at the USATF Junior Nationals and being named Verizon USATF Jr. All-American in 2004...played two years of basketball.
Personal: Born in Nairobi, Kenya...parents are Mal Whitfield and Harriet Wright...Mal ran track for Ohio State and competed in the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games, winning three gold medals, two silvers and a bronze...social welfare major.
