PULLMAN, Wash. – When Kelsey Bueno started high school, she thought she would be a wrestler, and when she started college she thought she’d be an architect. Instead she ended up competing in track in high school, a move that landed her a scholarship to pole vault for WSU – where her leap from architecture to computer science landed her an internship at EMC Isilon, a major data storage company in Seattle.
From wrestling to Pac-12 track
Bueno started wrestling in middle school, and was excited to join the high school team as a freshman. It turned out that her wrestling coach also coached track, and he saw potential in Bueno. When he mentioned this to her she had one major problem with the idea – she hated running. “He told me I could pole vault and then I’d only have to run one lap with the team, and just jump the rest of the time. Of course it ended up being more running than that, but I discovered I had a knack for pole vaulting and stuck with it,” Bueno said. more
