Alysha Newman proved she’s recovered from a concussion last year and put doubts of her pole vault future behind her with a weekend win at the Canadian track and field championships. Newman has been back training at home in the multi events with coach Vickie Croley and the London Western…
EDMONTON — Some of the best athletes in Canada will hit the University of Alberta this week for the national university track and field championships, including Spencer Allen, who is taking his sport to new heights. Allen is the U of A’s greatest pole vaulter of all time. READ MORE
Feeling healthy and rounding into peak form six weeks before the world track and field championships isn’t enough for Alysha Newman to focus on setting meet records on the Diamond League circuit. The Canadian pole vaulter has never shied away from admitting she dreams of one day surpassing Yelena Isinbayeva’s…
Abbotsford’s Joshua Carsience impressed at the Legion Youth National Track and Field Championships last weekend. The Valley Royals athlete earned a bronze medal for Team B.C. in the U18 men’s pole vault at the event, which was held on the campus of Cape Breton University in Sydney, N.S. from Aug.…
Alysha Newman has added another international medal to her growing collection. The reigning Commonwealth Games champ captured pole vault bronze at the Pan Am Games Thursday in Lima, Peru. The 25-year-old Mother Teresa grad cleared 4.55 metres on her first attempt but was stopped when the bar was raised to…
The Green High graduate thinks over-parenting has become a problem in athletics In addition to her main job as an Olympic-level pole vaulter for Canada, Green High graduate Kelsie Ahbe does a little coaching on the side, both in gymnastics and pole vaulting. About a month ago, after a particularly…
Heading into the 2019 U Sports track and field championships, Spencer Allen—already the greatest pole vaulter in University of Alberta history—was the heavy favourite and set to join just a handful of athletes to win three consecutive national championships in the sport. Ready to rewrite the U Sports track and…
Alysha Newman keeps defying gravity. The 24-year-old Londoner topped her own Canadian women’s outdoor pole vault record by clearing 4.76 metres Friday at the Speed River Inferno meet in Guelph. The effort was a centimetre better than her golden Commonwealth Games mark from April, 2018 in Australia. Last year, her…
Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman broke her own national indoor record on Saturday, clearing 4.71 metres en route to a tie for first place in the women’s event at an IAAF indoor meet in Karlsruhe, Germany. Newman, whose previous personal best was a 4.70 from last year’s IAAF indoor world championships in Birmingham, England,…
Alysha Newman might have been wearing a megawatt smile when she soared to pole vault gold at the Commonwealth Games last March. But the 24-year-old was competing through pain so bad, she’d barely been able to practise. “Oh yeah, it was horrible,” Newman said. “I had taken two weeks off…