Vicki Pellicciotti, pole vault coach at South Carroll High School, said she has her athletes execute handstands against the wall to gauge whether they’re afraid to be upside down while holding up their body weight. Peyton Thomas was timid with the exercise at first, Pellicciotti said. After all, the freshman…
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Emmett freshman Landon Helms continued collecting gold medals last week, this time at the national level. Helms won both the 110 meter hurdles and the pole vault in the freshman division at the New Balance National Outdoors track and field in Greensboro, North Carolina. Using the same formula that won…
WESTFIELD — An eighth-place finish for Mahar Regional School freshman pole-vaulter Sienna Moore highlighted local track competitors at the All-State track & field championships on Saturday on the campus of Westfield State University. Moore finished tied for eighth overall, vaulting 10 feet to match her school record at Mahar. Mohawk’s…
COLUMBUS — Emily Thompson started preparing for the track season in November. The time, work and dedication paid dividends Saturday, the first day of June. In basically seven months, Thompson — a freshman at St. Clairsville — became an All-Ohioan in the pole vault. Thompson became the first Red Devils…
COLUMBUS — Margaretta’s Kenna Stimmel put the feather in the cap of a record-breaking freshman season in the most fitting way possible. The freshman won the Division III state title and broke the Div. III state record in the pole vault, clearing 13-feet-0.25 on her first attempt Friday at Jesse Owens…
AUSTINTOWN — Geneva girls track and field coach Bobby McQuoid is no stranger to the state track and field meet and he has found a home near the pole vault pit in recent years. McQuoid has sent a Geneva pole vaulter to the state meet every year since 2014. Ally…
CASTALIA — The competition to see which Stimmel sister can go highest in the pole vault already was at the heights of a raging firestorm well before last week’s Sandusky Bay Conference championships. Now, after younger sister Kenna Stimmel broke older sister Kassidie Stimmel’s latest school and league records, it’s…
HIBBING —Julia Gherardi, just a freshman, set a new pole vault record for the Hibbing High School girls track and field team during the John Tingstad Invite at Cheever Field in Hibbing on Friday. She cleared a height of 10-feet, 1-inch to beat the old record, which was 10-feet even.…
If anybody wants to challenge Mahar Regional pole vault records in the future they will have to deal with a pretty high standard set by the Moore family. Freshman Sienna Moore recently set the outdoor record, clearing 9 feet 10 inches for the Senators. “We say that it’s in the…
