Meredith Bright
Colket
Male
United States of America
1878-11-19
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
1947-06-07
Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Wikipedia:
He was an American pole vaulter who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the silver medal in the men's pole vault ahead of Norwegian Carl-Albert Andersen who won bronze. Irving Baxter won gold.[1][2]
Biography
Colket was born on November 19, 1878, in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. degree in 1901 and a LL.B degree in 1904. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and the varsity track team for all four of his undergraduate years. Colkert finished second in the pole jump at the British 1900 AAA Championships.[3][4]
He organized the first tennis team at Penn and won second place at the intercollegiate tennis doubles championship in 1902. He worked as an attorney for the General Accident Fire & Life Insurance Corporation and continued to play tennis at the Merion Cricket Club.[5] He married Alberta Kelsey on April 12, 1911, in London.[6]
He died of a heart attack at his home in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on June 7, 1947,[5] and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1900 - 1905
0
6
1
Final
Joseph Roberts Carpenter Jr. 1 *
Meredith Bright Colket
6-1
11-9
6-1
Round 2
Hugh Lawrence (Laurie) Doherty 1 *
Meredith Bright Colket
6-2
6-2
6-0
Preliminary Round
William Jackson Clothier Sr. 1 *
Meredith Bright Colket
6-3
6-4
Round 1
John A. Roche jr 1 *
Meredith Bright Colket
6-3
13-11
Round 1
Meredith Bright Colket 1 *
Wylie Grant
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Fred Alexander 1 *
Meredith Bright Colket
6-1
6-1