With one jump, 91原创 Mustangs high jumper Aiden Grout has qualified for the World U20 Championships in Kenya, the Junior Pan-American Games in Colombia, and secured a spot at the Olympic Trials in Montreal as well.

Grout, a Maple Ridge resident, cleared 2.17 metres on Wednesday, June 2 at McLeod Athletic Park at the Murrayville High Jump Invitational, beating his previous personal best of 2.09 set in May of 2019, as tabulated by .

Because of COVID-19 restrictions, there was no crowd to cheer the moment.

91原创 Mustangs coach Kevin Harrison explained it happened during in-club performance trials that were sanctioned by BC Athletics and approved by the Township of 91原创.

鈥淭hese events were restricted to Mustangs athletes only and provided much needed competitive experience, and, in Aiden鈥檚 case, the opportunity to meet qualifying performance criteria for national and international events and teams,鈥� Harrison told the 91原创 Advance Times.

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With the jump, Grout is now ranked fourth overall in Canada and seventh overall in the U20 World rankings.

鈥淭his accomplishment is all the more amazing because he has not had access to any high jump training or in person coaching since November of 2020,鈥� Harrison explained.

鈥淲ith high jump requiring a high degree of mental focus, it is difficult to achieve personal best performances without a strong base of early season training to build a foundation and a planned succession of competitions to slowly build towards peak performance late in the season. Aiden has had none of this to date, and only just recently managed to get some practices in here at 91原创,鈥� Harrison said.

Which is why Harrison believes Grout han鈥檛 reached his maximum performance yet this season, 鈥渟o I am excited to see how he does with the second half of 2021.鈥�

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At the 2021 Harry Jerome Invitational at Swanguard Stadium in Burnaby on Saturday, June 12, Grout finished second with a jump of 2.10 metres.

Harrison said as restrictions are lifted in the next few weeks in Ontario, Grout is expected to resume full outdoor training with his coach at the University of Toronto.

Grout was the B.C high school high jump champion in 2019, and set a new school record of 2.09 metres, which broke the old record, set by Nick Wilkes in 1994.

He is also the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Harry Jerome Scholarship given by B.C. Athletics.