Pioneer For Women’s Pole Vault:
2000 Olympic Gold Medalist
3x World Champion
17x National Champion
10x World Record Holder
2x Jesse Owens Award Winner

Icon For World Athletics:
USATF Hall of Fame
IAAF Ambassador
Idaho State Univ Hall of Fame
Sacramento Sports Hall of Fame

Mentor & Role Model For Youth:
Founder of Educational Charity
Speaker for Youth Programs
Host of Mentorship Programs

Businesswoman:
Owner: Elite Training Center
Professional Olympic-level Trainer
Founder: Dragila Pole Vault Camps
Corporate & Motivational Speaker

STACY DRAGILA is an athletic pioneer who literally crashed the glass ceiling of Olympic Athletics when she soared over 15’ in the air on a fiberglass pole and won the inaugural women’s pole vault at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In the face of gender stereotypes that insisted that women “aren’t strong enough” to pole vault and that “nobody cares” if women vault, STACY and her fellow self-described “chicks on sticks” set out to prove the naysayers wrong; and themselves right.
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In 1993, STACY set out to learn how to master pole vaulting -- a sport that USA Today once called the “3rd Hardest Thing To Do In Sports” amid skepticism and with few track meets that would even permit her to compete. Within 7 years, she was standing on a Gold Medal Stand in front of 115,000 fans in Sydney, Australia as Olympic Champion.

STACY would go on to break the World Record 10 times and win 4 World Championships. Off the runway, she became the face of the women's movement in athletics as she appeared on everything from Wheaties boxes to Super Bowl Commercials.

Upon retirement after 15 years of world-class competition, STACY has become a role model and an ambassador for sports and education. Through her nonprofit charity “Try Something New,” she uses the concepts learned in pole vaulting to deliver a growth mindset educational philosophy premised upon a belief that children's most basic abilities can be developed through dedication & hard work.

STACY is a proven businesswoman in her own right. She is the owner of an International Elite Training Center in Boise, Idaho; she is an Olympic-level professional trainer for post-collegiate athletes; she is the founder of Stacy Dragila Pole Vault Camps; and she is in demand as a corporate and motivational speaker on topics such as “Cultivating Confidence,” “The First Step to Success Is to Embrace Failure,” and “Girls Aren’t Strong Enough or Fast Enough.”