For Keisa Monterola, the distance from Cheney to London is 3 centimeters, or barely an inch. For that inch, she’s already gone the extra mile – tens of thousands of them – in pursuit of an Olympic dream that began in Venezuela and continues at Eastern Washington University, where last…
On a near 90-degree day, not many athletes are still preparing for events on a Thursday evening as only top competitors training for state remain. That’s where you’ll find Wiregrass Ranch pole vaulter Alisha Henry, practicing and perfecting any and every technique she has at her disposal. She’ll need every…
One thing has become clear during Jeff Guy’s coaching career: He sure knows how to pick ’em. Guy is a two-time National Pole Vault Coach of the Year and might be in the running again this year with the season the Desert Vista (Phoenix) vaulters are having as the Arizona state meet…
That familiar roar of the crowd following the sprints at the Class 3A state track and field finals on Friday will greatly contrast the near silence Cardinal Gibbons’ Winston Perry and Archbishop McCarthy’s Will Kelly will choose to script the final chapter of a riveting high school pole-vault rivalry. While…
KEARNEY — Brandon Benson proved Tuesday he wouldn’t give up the state record in the Class D pole vault easily. Competing in the Best of the Midwest meet in Sutherland, the Axtell senior cleared 15 feet, 4 inches to break the record set only a couple weeks ago by Twin…
Hannibal, MO — Before he tries to become a three-time champion, the defending Class 2 pole vaulting champion has decided where he will be going to college. Monroe City High School senior Mike Grinde officially signed on with Division 2 Missouri Science and Technology during a signing event held at…
Freshman Adam Bragg is a promising pole vaulter on the track team who finished as the runner-up in the Larry Ellis Invitational less than two weeks ago, bettering his previous personal record by about 10 cm to raise his mark to 5.06m. Ahead of the Heptagonals this weekend, the ‘Prince’…
Peter Chapman is a marked man. Not that the pressure is getting to the Murrieta Valley senior as he prepares for the track and field postseason as the owner of the top pole-vaulting mark in the state, a vault of 16 feet, 6 ½ inches that’s also a Riverside County…
Monte Carlo – Current World record holder and Olympic Pole Vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva will make her final pre-Olympic appearance at the Herculis Samsung Diamond League meeting in Monaco on 20 July 2012. In 2008 the Russian star set a 5.04m World record in Monaco in her last outing prior to the Olympic Games in…
Tommy Skipper is training again. After not competing for nearly three years, the five-time NCAA pole vault champion for the University of Oregon is slowly working his way back into shape. Encouraged by family and friends, and surrounded by a volunteer medical support team, Skipper wants to jump at the…
