MONTICELLO — She was never an understudy. Instead, Monticello’s Landis Brandon has spent the last two years as the best actor in a supporting role. Until this year, Aliyah Welter was among the best pole vaulters in Class 2A for the Sages. She earned a Division I scholarship to the University of…
As an infant, Julia Fixsen was obsessed with bouncing endlessly in her Johnny Jumper children’s harness at home. As she grew up, gymnastics was a passion, as was time spent practicing flips and tucks on the backyard trampoline. So it’s no surprise that the junior has become the state’s top…
Being upside down in midair is why Buna pole vaulter Nicole Casper constantly strives to increase her height in the sport. But it’s also the reason why many of her classmates through the years have thought twice about joining her on the pole vault runway. “We start out with many and…