SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (EYT/D9) — Kendall Grossman isn’t sure what caused her overwhelming fear. She doesn’t know why the dread gripped her so tightly. The irrational panic. The paralyzing resistance to competing in the pole vault, something that was almost second nature to her for nearly a decade. READ MORE
EUGENE — A Marshfield tradition continued Friday when the Pirates had another state champion, and three more placers, in the boys pole vault. This time it was Jonathon Parks doing the honors, clearing a winning height of 14 feet, 9 inches. Danner Wilson was third (lifetime best 14-3) and Trent…
SAN DIEGO — Lexi Evans pondered the question: How did being able to pole vault during the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020 affect you? “To a degree, I think it saved my sanity,” said the Scripps Ranch senior. “It was a rough time doing nothing. Being with others with the same…
Justin Rogers, Hershey, clears 16’ 9” before breaking his own state pole vault recored later clearing 17’ 2’, at the 2022 Mid Penn Track & Field Championships at Chambersburg Area High School in Chambersburg, Pa., May. 14, 2022. Justin Rogers, Hershey, sets a new state recored in the pole vault,…
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. – Senior Joe O’Connor (Henrico, Va. / Douglas Freeman) led the Washington and Lee men’s track and field team’s performances at the Mount Olive First Chance meet on Saturday with a new program and ODAC record. -O’Connor posted 5.05m (16’6.75″) in the pole vault to take first…
Kerry Seekamp remembers it well. Just a scrappy 12-year-old at Destin Middle School, every Sunday she’d get to share the pole vaulting pit alongside her idols, Niceville’s Maddy Kish and Kobe Babin. They were larger than life. They could clear monstrous heights. They, more than anything, represented all that Seekamp wanted for…
BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) – Russian members of the International Olympic Committee can take part in this week’s IOC session despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the Olympic body saying on Monday they are not representatives of their country. Yelena Isinbayeva, Olympic pole vault champion and member of the International…
The Washington State track and field team wrapped up its Pac-12 season this weekend with the Pac-12 Championships in Eugene and senior Jacob Englar is bringing some hardware back to Pullman after winning the Pac-12 pole vault championship Englar cleared 5.11 meters on his first attempt and that proved to…
Hamilton College’s Andrea Shipton ’22 finished fourth in the women’s pole vault in Nazareth College’s 2022 ROC City Final Qualifier at Golden Flyer Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Shipton cleared 3.05 meters (10 feet, 0 inches) on the first try, 3.20 meters (10 feet, 6 inches) on her second attempt at…
While the girls had the better team finish, senior Ben Kirbo had Stephenville’s only gold medal at the state track meet held last week in Austin. The senior cleared 15 feet and won the title when Pleasanton’s Preston Pilgrim and Argyle’s Mitchell Thompson missed at 15-3. Both Pilgrim and Thompson…