Last year, she cleared 14-1.5. Now, as she heads into her senior year of competition, she’s cleared another barrier. She’s decided where she’ll continue her vaulting career. Erica Ellis (Unattached) not only returns as the Nation’s top vaulter this year, she ended the 2017-2018 as the country’s top vaulter as well. …
The conditions to jump were less than ideal at Rick Suhr’s pole vault facility in Riga. It was New Year’s Day. Suhr was unsure whether it would even be possible to coach a high school athlete, given the demands of world-class track and field on his wife, 2012 Olympic gold…
Gates Chili’s Erica Ellis set a national junior pole vault record for Saturday at the Akron pole vault convention with a jump of 14 feet, 1½ inches. The height also set a New York state record for high school juniors and 16 year olds. The jump is more than a foot…
In a post first brought up on Facebook, Erica Ellis‘ parents confirmed their daughter would not compete for the Gates Chili High team this indoor season. Nationally, she is the second best returner in the event this winter. The story was first reported by the Democrat & Chronicle: “Gates Chili junior Erica…
Gates Chili junior Erica Ellis, owner of multiple Section V girls pole vault records, has no plans of competing during this high school indoor track season, her father confirmed Saturday. Rickey Ellis said he and his wife Barbara believe they could make an arrangement where their daughter could work with coaches…
Pole vault is a track and field event that is described as technical enough to trip up even the athletes who thrive at it. Ask Erica Ellis, even with training from a world-class vaulter and coach, Jenn and Rick Suhr. This spring was short of the Gates Chili sophomore’s finest…
