KEITH
MOFFATT
Event: High Jump
Height: 6-8
Weight: 185
PR: 2.30m/7-6.5 (2006)
Born: June 20, 1984
Current Residence: Newport News, Va.
High School: Menchville (Newport News, Va.) HS '03
College: Morehouse '07
Coach: Willie Hill
Agent: Kimberly Holland
Club: Nike
Career Highlights:
2006 & 2009 USA
Outdoor runner-up; 3rd at 2005 USA Outdoors; 2003 Junior Pan Am Games
gold medalist; 2004 NCAA DII champion; 2003 USA Outdoor Junior champion
After coming close on numerous occasions, Moffatt qualified for his first U.S.
World Champs or Olympic team with his third-place finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor
Championships, which earned him a spot on the Team USA roster for the World
Championships in Berlin. As a college senior in 2007, Moffatt soared with
America’s finest high jumpers in finishing fourth at the USA Outdoor
Championships and ending the season ranked among the top ten in the nation by
Track & Field News for the fourth consecutive season. During his
junior year at Morehouse College, Moffatt continued to demonstrate that he is
one of the nation’s top high jumpers in setting a new personal best as the
runner-up at the 2006 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships, and he won the NCAA
Division II Outdoor title in finishing the year as the #3 ranked American by
Track & Field News. After placing a surprising fourth at the 2004 USA
Olympic Trials, Moffatt continued as one of the nation’s top jumpers in 2005 in
placing third at the USA Outdoor Championships and ended the season ranked #5 in
the U.S. by Track & Field News. Moffatt’s accomplishments include winning
the 2003-04 NCAA Division II National Indoor high jump title and breaking the
SIAC high jump record. In 2004 he captured Morehouse College awards for Most
Outstanding Performances in indoor and outdoor track and field, and Most
Valuable Player in outdoor track and field. The Newport News, Va., native also
received the Frank L. Forbes Most Outstanding All-Sport Athlete Award, bestowed
annually on the student-athlete who has excelled above and beyond all others in
any sport.