LOUISVILLE — Set in 1986, Aurora Central graduate Pat Manson’s Class 5A state meet pole vault record of 17 feet, 3 inches was one that many in the Colorado prep track and field community thought may never be broken. Turns out, all it took to break the record was for…
A pole vault stand, pit and runway sit conspicuously against a rustic backdrop in a sprawling yard on 10th Street in Hobart. “The story hasn’t changed,” Jim Johnston Jr. said. Indeed it hasn’t. For years, a less elaborate setup stood on the adjoining property, owned, cleared and built by Johnston’s…
Orchard Park, N.Y. (WKBW) – Pole vaulting is one of those events that takes a lot of skill but for Orchard Park’s Kegan Mancabelli, pole vaulting is in his blood. “My dad used to pole vault,” he said. “My grandpa, he was an official and he signed off on the first vault…
