“It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a flying squirrel!” you say while pointing at the flash of white and blue that soars through the sky. To your surprise, it’s none other than Derek Amlicke ’23 jumping to new heights in the 2023 season. Amlicke vaulted to 15′ 0.25 ”…
SAN FRANCISCO – After posting the nation’s second-best pole vault mark of the season last weekend, California track & field sophomore Tyler Burns has been named the Pac-12 Men’s Field Athlete of the Week, as announced by the conference on Tuesday. Burns leaped 5.55m (18-2.5) at the Aztec Invitational to…
The top five finishers in the women’s pole vault at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 will clash once again when the Doha Meeting stages the first Wanda Diamond League fixture of 2023 on Friday 5 May. In an incredibly deep field containing seven global medallists, world and Olympic champion Katie…
Elijah Cole powers through unpredictable weather conditions in the Philippine Athletics Championships to beat out Hokett delos Santos ISABELA, Philippines – Filipino-American Elijah Cole debuted in the Philippines in style and bested home bet Hokett delos Santos for the pole vault gold in the Philippine Athletics Championships at the Ilagan…
For Emma George, it was just another high-flying routine. First, at the Australian national indoor competition in Adelaide on 26 March 1998, the former childhood trapeze artist soared over 4.50m. In doing so, she became the first female pole vaulter to achieve the feat indoors, 11 months after she had…
Making TikTok videos for fun evolved into a serious moneymaking venture for Nebraska track athlete Jess Gardner, who is among the many social media stars in college sports. A comical video of her teaching a football player how to pole vault has been viewed nearly 4 million times, though the…
Duke’s Paige Sommers won the Women’s Pole Vault Invitational final on Day 1 of the 2023 Raleigh Relays. She soared to new heights, setting a personal best of 4.15 meters (13-7¼) on Thursday. RALEIGH, NC (March 23) – Paige Sommers, a sophomore at Duke, claimed victory in the Women Pole…
Cameron Thomas is a senior from Windsor high school in Windsor, Colorado. last year, before the outdoor spring season of track and field, Cameron has never touched a vaulting pole. Starting his junior year of track, in a couple weeks it came pretty natural to him. our first meet, just…
CHENEY, Wash. — Eastern Washington pole vaulter Hally Ruff was named the Big Sky Women’s Field Athlete of the Week as the conference announced its weekly Outdoor Track and Field honors on Monday afternoon. At the Oregon Preview in Eugene on Saturday, Ruff cleared 4.05m (13′ 3.5″) to start her…
The sophomore pole vaulter is looking ahead to the rest of outdoor season after an injury ended last year’s campaign early A big part of Penn women’s track and field’s Kai Eisenhardt’s routine at the beginning of every story is setting high goals and dreaming big. READ MORE