Coach Branko Miric began coaching Ramapo College pole vaulters in 2008 and since that time the Ramapo College pole vault records have improved dramatically. The men’s record has improved over two feet and is 17’5 ½” while the women’s record has improved over four feet and now stands at 13’9 ¾”, a NCAA Division III indoor record. During his tenure at Ramapo College, Coach Miric has coached seven athletes to 13 NJAC conference championships, ten athletes to 36 ECAC trips; including three ECAC championships; nine All-Americans, and three National Championships.
In 2011, Coach Miric had his first national championship as he helped Craig Van Leeuwen win the indoor national championship that year. He also had an All-American that year with Michelle Favre’s 5th place finish, the first of five All-American finishes for her. Van Leeuwen was also named the Atlantic Region Field Athlete of the Year for three seasons, once for indoors and twice for outdoors.
Favre would continue her appearances at Nationals with two more All-American trophies for third place finishes, and then complete her career her senior year, in 2013, with a National Championship Indoors and Outdoors. During that year she would break the Division III National record with her victorious clearance of 13’9 ¾” at ECAC’s, and be named the Atlantic Region Field Athlete of the Year for both Indoors and Outdoors. For those efforts, Miric was also named Atlantic Region Assistant Coach of the Year for the indoor season. During that 2013 campaign, Coach Miric would also coach Emily Shipley, a freshman at the time, to a 5” personal record, an appearance to indoor and outdoor nationals, and a 4th place finish at outdoor NCAA’s. That 4th place finish would give Shipley All-American status and help Ramapo place 3rd as a team at the 2013 Outdoor NCAA’s.
Most recently Coach Miric has helped transfer student, Brittany DalCais, increase her personal record 8”, and qualify for Division III NCAA nationals for the first time in Indoor and Outdoor Track. DalCais also won Indoor ECAC’s in a dramatic jump off.
2021-2022 Season
