(pronounced RAY-gis)
Career Honors (Pole Vault)
2x All-America (2018 First Team, 2017 Second Team)
3x National Qualifier
2018 PSAC Champion
2018 KU Male Athlete of the Year
6x All-Atlantic Region (3x Indoor, 3x Outdoor)
5x All-PSAC
2018 Chambliss Academic Achievement Award Copper Medal
3x PSAC Field Athlete of the Week (1/17/17; 5/2/17; 4/24/18)
2016 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
Dean's List Honors (Spring 2018)
PSAC Scholar-Athlete (2015-16)
SAAC President
NCAA Championship Performances
2017 Outdoor - Pole Vault (12th)
2018 Indoor - Pole Vault (13th)
2018 Outdoor - Pole Vault (7th)
PSAC Championship Performances
2015 Indoor - Pole Vault (-)
2015 Outdoor – Pole Vault (5th)
2016 Indoor - Pole Vault (2nd)
2016 Outdoor - Pole Vault (2nd)
2017 Indoor - Pole Vault (3rd)
2017 Outdoor - Pole Vault (2nd)
2018 Indoor - Pole Vault (-)
2018 Outdoor - Pole Vault (1st)
2018 (OUTDOOR): Career-best seventh-place finish at the NCAA National Championships in North Carolina, earning him All-America First Team honors. His best height of the day was 16-8 (5/26)...Named to the USTFCCCA All-Atlantic Region Team in the pole vault...Won his first career PSAC Championship in the pole vault by breaking the meet record with a height of 17-00.25. It was the best of his career, second in school history, an NCAA Automatic mark that qualified him for nationals, and earned KU 10 team points at the PSAC Championships (5/4)...Won the pole vault at Shippensburg's Paul Kaiser Classic, clearing 16-00.75 (4/28)...Third place at Penn Relays, clearing 15-11 (4/27)...Earned PSAC Field Athlete of the Week honors (4/24)...Won the pole vault with a career-best 16-6 to improve upon fourth in school history at Moravian's Greyhound Invitational (4/21)...Placed third with an existing NCAA Provisional mark of 15-9 at the Bison Outdoor Classic...Finished in fourth place in the pole vault with a PSAC mark of 15-1 at the Colonial Relays (4/6)...Won the pole vault at 15-7 at a Quad Meet at West Chester (3/31)...Opened the outdoor season with a third-place finish in an NCAA Provisional mark of 15-9 in the pole vault at the 49er Classic (3/17).
2017-18 (INDOOR): Placed 13th at nationals in Missouri (3/10)...National Qualifier in the pole vault...USTFCCCA All-Atlantic Region in the pole vault (2/27)...Won the pole vault at KU's Last Chance Invite, clearing 15-11 (2/16)...NCAA Provisional mark of 15-9 at the Fastrack National Invitational (2/9)...Returned from injury with a career-best 16-4.75 in the pole vault at the SU Challenge. He won the event and moved up to fourth in school history (2/3)...Posted the sixth-best vault in program history (16-0.75) at the Bison Invitational (12/2).
2017 (OUTDOOR): Became an All-American with a 12th-place finish at nationals in Florida. He cleared two bars and finished at 16-3.25 for All-America Second Team honors (5/25)...National Qualifier in the pole vault...Named All-Atlantic Region in the pole vault (5/16)...Career-best height of 16-5.25 at the Georgian Court Last Chance Meet for fourth in school history (5/12)...Finished second in the pole vault (16-1.25) at the PSAC Outdoor Championships with the sixth-best vault in school history (5/5)...Named PSAC Field Athlete of the Week for his performances at the Penn Relays and Paul Kaiser Classic (5/2).
2016-17 (INDOOR): Finished third in the pole vault at the PSAC Indoor Championships (2/25)...Named All-Atlantic Region in pole vault (2/28)...Moved into seventh in school history with a mark of 15-11 at the Golden Bear Invitational - the second straight meet posting an NCAA provisional mark - earning him his first career PSAC Field Athlete of the Week award (1/13)...Won with a then-career-best 15-9 at the Bison Opener (12/3).
2016 (OUTDOOR): USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (7/29)...PSAC Scholar-Athlete (6/29)...Finished second in the pole vault with a NCAA-existing mark of 4.80m at the 2016 PSAC Outdoor Championships...Won the pole vault at the Paul Kaiser Classic, tying his season-best mark of 4.85m (15-11) (4/30)...Finished third in the pole vault at the Penn Relays with a season-best and existing NCAA provisional mark of 4.85m (15-11), the eighth-best mark in school history (4/29)...Came in first place in the pole vault at the All-American Meet (4/23)...Posted his first NCAA-provisional mark of the outdoor season in the pole vault at the West Chester Open (3/26).
2015-16 (INDOOR): Named to the USTFCCCA All-Region team (3/1)...Earned All-PSAC honors with his second-place finish in the pole vault (15-3.50) at the PSAC Championships (2/27-28)...Posted his first career NCAA provisional mark in the pole vault (15-7) for ninth in KU history at the Last Chance Invite (2/20)...Recorded a then-career-best in the pole vault (15-3) at the Bison Opener (12/5).
2015 (OUTDOOR): Finished fifth in the pole vault at the PSAC Championships with a season-best 15-3.50 (5/2)…Finished second in the pole vault with a then-season-best mark of 14-11 at the Rider Invitational (4/11).
2014-15 (INDOOR): Tallied a season-best in the pole vault (14-5.25) at the Last Chance Invitational (2/21)...Posted another PSAC mark in the pole vault (13-9.25) at the Metro Team Challenge (1/23)...Posted a PSAC mark in the pole vault with a height of 13-11.25 at the Golden Bear Invitational (1/16)...Posted a PSAC-qualifying height of 14-3.25 in the pole vault at the Bison Opener (12/6).
TFRRS Performance List
| Personal Bests |
| Event |
Indoor |
Outdoor |
| Pole Vault |
16-4.75 |
17-0.25 |
The Raguz File
Nickname: Big Raguz
Dream Job: US fish + wildlife scientist
One Thing My Teammates May Not Know About Me: I was adopted by Coach Dodds
I spent my summer: working + working out
Best Pizza in Kutztown: TommyBoys
Why Did You Choose KU? Marine science + the track team
Favorite Thing About Coach: Dodds is a living legend
Goal for 2017-18: School record, nationals indoor + outdoor
