OXFORD — This is the true story of how a Mississippian came to be one of the best pole vaulters in the world.
There’s another story, one Sam Kendricks will tell people. It’s shorter, more direct and perhaps saves a little face. But the reality is that his athletic career began as a kid just trying to make his father’s Oxford High School track and field team.
But as Kendricks can admit, he wasn’t very fast as a seventh-grader. Nor was he very athletic. His twin brother Tom was, and Scott Kendricks just couldn’t bear the thought of one brother making the team and the other not.
