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Tim Reilly

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Assistant Coach, Pole Vault
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One of the most respected pole vault coaches at any level, Tim Reilly joined the Washington coaching staff in 2023-24, adding more knowledge and expertise to an event where the Huskies have shined at a national level. Reilly works with Associate Head Coach Toby Stevenson on getting the Husky vaulters to new heights.

Reilly’s first two years on staff have been nothing short of historic. Twins Hana and Amanda Moll have rewritten the collegiate recordbooks. Amanda became the first collegiate woman ever to clear 16-feet, which she did twice in 2025 on her way to winning the NCAA Indoor title. Hana set a new NCAA Outdoor Record of 15-8 1/2 while claiming the NCAA Outdoor title, breaking Amanda's former record. Each sister was named USTFCCCA National Women's Field Athlete of the Year in 2025, Amanda indoors and Hana outdoors, and they were both Bowerman Award semifinalists. They rank 1-2 in NCAA history indoors and outdoors, and they also went 1-2 at both the 2025 Big Ten indoor and outdoor championships.

Hana Moll claimed her first NCAA title in her very first chance, winning the 2024 indoor title to become the first freshman to ever win that meet. Outdoors in 2024, UW finished 3-4-5 with Hana in third, Nastassja Campbell in fourth, and Amanda in fifth. Those three also swept the Pac-12 Championship podium. Amanda and Hana then were 5th and 6th at the U.S. Olympic Trials.

In the men’s vault, Reilly and Stevenson helped transfer Scott Toney climb to new heights, as he broke the UW school record in July of 2025, clearing 18-9 1/2. Toney won the 2025 Big Ten Indoor Championship, becoming the first Husky in any sport to win a Big Ten title. Toney made both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor meets in 2025. In 2024, Max Manson and Mathis Bresko both reached the NCAA Indoor Championships, then Manson and Simon Park finished 2-3 at Pac-12s, as UW took five of six podium spots across both genders in the vault. Manson tied for eighth at NCAA Outdoors for his first All-America First Team.

Reilly has had a massive impact on pole vault development in the Pacific Northwest over four decades. Since retiring from teaching high school in 2014 and devoting his time fully to the establishment of his Northwest Pole Vault club, Reilly’s influence has exploded exponentially both nationwide and worldwide. No further evidence is needed beyond the success of the Moll twins, who entered UW in the fall of 2023 as the top U20 vaulters in the world, and as high school record-setters.

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Coached by Reilly throughout their junior careers, Hana and Amanda Moll entered the collegiate scene as two of the best juniors in world history. Coming to UW, Hana ranked No. 2 in world junior history and Amanda was tied for No. 5.

Amanda Moll cleared 14-3 as just a high school freshman, then 14-7 ½ as a sophomore, a U.S. Junior Record 14-9 ½ as a junior, and a U.S. National High School Record 15-1 ½ as a senior. She twice won Nike Nationals and won the U.S. U20 title, along with the pro section of the 2022 Reno Pole Vault Summit.

Hana Moll was the youngest member of Team USA at the 2023 World Championships, and the youngest vaulter in history to make the World Championships finals. She raised her own U.S. National Record to 15-3 in the qualifying round of Worlds, then placed ninth in the final. Hana made the national team by placing third at the USATF Outdoor Championships with a make of 15-1 ½. That followed a 2022 season where she took Gold at the U20 World Championships in Colombia, getting a first-ever Gold for the U.S. in the women’s vault.

While the Moll twins have rewrote national records repeatedly, Reilly’s success with young vaulters stretches far beyond the twin superstars.

In 2019, two-time Washington state and national champion Chloe Cunliffe broke the national U20 record at 4.50 (14-9) indoors and then 4.48 (14-8) outdoors at Arcadia. Cunliffe proceeded to turn professional immediately after high school, signing with Puma.

His athletes have won seven national championships and multiple age-group golds, and have dominated national podiums. At the 2022 Nike Outdoor Championships in Eugene, his women’s vaulters finished 1-2-3-6.

Over the past five years at NWPV, eighty-five percent of graduated pole vaulters have continued vaulting in college, with fourteen of those athletes competing at Washington. Some of those Dawgs have included Pac-12 scorers Lev Marcus, Annika Dayton, Ashleigh Helms, Zach Shugart, and All-Americans Brian Madche and Makenna Barton, who was also a two-time Pac-12 Champion.

Reilly is the only coach in history to have produced two 15-foot female vaulters and the only junior coach to produce multiple U.S. record-setters (A. Moll, H. Moll, Cunliffe). He has coached an incredible six prep girls over the 14-foot barrier when no other coach has exceeded three.

Tim Reilly

Reilly’s first state champion as a pole vault coach came back in 1989. His training camps have influenced thousands of prep vaulters and their coaches for decades. Reilly wrote the curriculum and directed the Washington State Pole Vault Coaches’ Certification Program which all Washington State coaches must take every three years to stay current. By way of instructional videos, webinars, podcasts and speaking engagements, Tim continues giving his best to the event he has promoted with passion for 40 years.

Reilly’s career outside the vaulting world has been just as distinguished. He taught high school English and Theology, taught Humanities at Seattle University, and has been a long-time volunteer recovery coach and writing teacher at Seattle’s Recovery Café. Reilly owns a B.A. in Psychology from Seattle U., teaching credentials in Language Arts (Lewis & Clark College) and e-learning (University of Washington), and a M.A. in Transformational Leadership for Justice from Seattle U.

Raised in Spokane, Reilly says, “I was a passionate pole vaulter since the 4th grade but I never had a coach or proper poles. I competed through my freshman year at the University of Idaho (all-conference, 15’0 PR), but felt I was getting nowhere without coaching. Once I started teaching, it became my mission to seek out every mentor and guru I could find so as to be more useful to the kids I was coaching. The success of my athletes has been far more satisfying than my own might have been.”

Tim and his wife Kathy live just north of the UW campus where they have raised two sons still working and living in Seattle.