NICEVILLE — A short video has yielded $10,000 for the pole vaulting team at Niceville High School. The team made the 2-minute, 49-second video recently chosen as top in the nation by Powerade’s program Power Your School, which offers scholarships to high school sports programs across the country. Former Niceville…
TAMPA, DEC. 29, 2014 – USF will host a pole vault instruction-competition on Saturday, Jan. 17 from noon-4 p.m. at the USF Track and Field Stadium. The instruction will be led by 16-year USF assistant coach Don Marsh. In his time with the Bulls, Marsh has coached six All-Americans, 16…
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The skinny teenager from California showed up at the University of South Dakota more than 20 years ago wanting to be a pole vaulter. Though his coaches admired the youngster’s spirit, they did not see an Olympic competition in his future, let alone three of them. Moving ahead two decades,…
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – If watching the Olympics got you hooked on track and field, more specifically on pole vaulting, have I got an event for you today. They’re calling it the Superhero’s Pole Vault competition and it is exactly what you think it is. Starting at 10 a.m. this…
Pole vaulting has become one of the standard events in modern track and field championships. Technological advances in pole design have seen athletes reach ever increasing heights, making the pole vault a particularly exciting spectator sport. Vaulters must combine athletic prowess with technical ability in order to succeed in the…
Young athletes competing at the South of England U15s and 17s Championships at Watford last weekend found the weather challenging on Saturday where heavy rain made conditions for spectators slippery and miserable for athletes. Yet this failed to daunt pole vaulter Nathan Gardner who, competing in the U15 boys’ competition,…
