Alysha Newman served notice to the world with her gold medal-winning pole vault in the Commonwealth Games in April.
In the process, she broke her own national record, setting a new Canadian bar of success at 4.75 metres.
For all that, it was the jubilation she displayed after landing in the mat — jumping up and down, repeatedly punching the air and completing another full somersault — that vaulted her profile to a new level.
