Carl Anthony Porambo is in his first season as an assistant coach on the track and field staff and fifth season overall. Porambo, who will work directly with the men’s and women’s pole vaulters, joined the staff as a volunteer coach for the 2019-20 season.
Porambo has helped to mentor one of the most decorated Scarlet Knights in program history with pole vaulter Chloe Timberg. The four-time Big Ten Champion is the school record holder in both the indoor and outdoor. A four-time NCAA Championship qualifier, Timberg earned First Team All-America honors with her third-place finish at the 2024 indoor championships. She capped the year earning USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Field Athlete of the Year, Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year and Big Ten Field Athlete of the Championships.
Prior to arriving “On the Banks,” Porambo coached at various NJ high schools, including Bernards, Scotch Plains Fanwood, Watchung Hills, Bound Brook, Summit, and Ridge. He has guided two state champions in Catherine Shih and Bradley Jelmert. Jelmert now has the second highest high jump of all time in New Jersey indoors for high school at 5.00m.
Overall, Porambo has led multiple group and sectional champions with five plus still holding meet records. A total of 82 athletes have advanced to the Meet of Champions under Porambo’s guidance.
Porambo graduated with a degree in International Marketing from Arizona State University in 1987. While at ASU, he was a four-year pole vaulter for the track and field team.
Off the track, Porambo is the owner of Red Barn Realty, a residential real estate company in Watchung, New Jersey, established in 2001. He is also the owner and head coach of Vault Factory established 2012.
Porambo has two daughters, GiannaMaria and Francesca “Frankie”. GiannaMarie is senior at the University of South Carolina. Frankie is sophomore at United States Air Force Academy, where she is is a pole vaulter on the track and field team in the Mountain West Conference.
He currently resides in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
