Completed Event: Track and Field at 44 Farms Team Invite on April 11, 2025 ,

2011-2012: OUTDOOR: Placed third in the high jump at the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Filed Championships with a mark of 6-11 ... jumped 6-06.75 at Sun Angel Classic and Arizona State Invite ... cleared 6-05.00 at the Beach Invitational INDOOR: Won the Holiday Preview high jump with a personal best jump of 6-20.25 .. runner-up in the high jump at the Bill Bergan Invitational jumping 6-08.75 ... jumped 6-08.25 in the high jump at the ISU Classic and New Balance Invitational ... cleared 6-07 in the high jump at the ISU Open.
2010-2011: OUTDOOR: Earned first-team Academic All-Big 12 honors ... Earned All-Big 12 honors after finishing eighth in the high jump with a personal-best mark (6-09) at the Big 12 Championships ... competed in the high jump at the Musco Twilight, Missouri Relays, Bryan Clay Invitational, Sun Angel Class and the Kip Janvrin Open INDOOR: Finished 11th at the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships tying his personal best jump of 6-07 … jumped 6-07 at the ISU Classic where he was the runner-up … jumped 6-06.75 at the Bill Bergan Invitational and the Holiday Preview.
2009-2010: OUTDOOR: Named Academic All-Big 12 Track & Field Team … competed in the high jump (6-06 ¾) at the Kansas Relays, a personal best. INDOOR:Placed first in the high jump (6-6 ¾) at the ISU Open … placed seventh in the high jump (6-7) clearing a new personal best at the ISU Classic … finished ninth in the high jump (6-6 ¼) at the Bill Bergan Invitational.
2008-2009: OUTDOOR: Placed second in the high jump (6-5 ½) at the Kip Janvrin Open ... finished eighth in the high jump (6-2 ¾) at the Jim Duncan Invitational ... placed 13th in the high jump (6-2 ¾) at the Raleigh Relays. INDOOR: Finished ninth in the high jump at the Husker Invitational clearing a personal-best height (6-6 ¾) ... finished 17th at the NCAA Indoor Qualifier in the high jump (6-4 ½).
Before Iowa State: Second-place finish in high jump at 2008 Minnesota State track meet (6-7) ... 2008 All-State honors in high jump ... 2008 and 2006 All-Conference champion in high jump ... 2008 All-Conference champion in pole vault ... 2007 All-Conference in pole vault ... tied school record in the high jump (6-7) at Northfield High School ... National Honor Society (’06,’07,’08) ... Academic Excellence Award (’08) ... Junior Board of Directors (’07,’08).
Personal : Born May 16, 1990 ... son of Larry and Luann Alderks ... aerospace engineering major.