Q: You won your fourth pole vault state championship this spring. What was that day like for you? A: Being my last high school meet, it kind of felt good to end it on a good note. I didn’t do exactly what I wanted height-wise this year, but it was good…
The Green High graduate thinks over-parenting has become a problem in athletics In addition to her main job as an Olympic-level pole vaulter for Canada, Green High graduate Kelsie Ahbe does a little coaching on the side, both in gymnastics and pole vaulting. About a month ago, after a particularly…
Landon Kemp knew when her track and field career at the University of South Dakota began, she would quickly go from top high school athlete to an unproven freshman. What she wasn’t prepared for were the effects of a lingering injury that would put a strain on her not just…
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…
LOCK HAVEN — After finishing up her final attempts in the pole vault, Hailey Zurich quickly gave a hug to her mom and went right for her phone. She couldn’t wait to tell her friend Katie Jones she had just hit a personal best in the event. The Loyalsock senior…
Iain McCormick was just having fun, but his father didn’t see things in the same light. As a 9-year-old, the Grandview Heights High School junior would play around with pipes that were stored in the garage for Sean McCormick’s job, running and sticking them in the ground to see how…
At its most stripped-down level, college recruiting is a sales job. Coaches are the salespeople, the athletes the customers, and it’s the coach’s job to convince the customer, aka the recruit, why their product is the best one. Sometimes, though, the coach needs to forget about the sale and just…
Greek pole vaulter Emmanuel “Manolo” Karalis chatted with Digital Journal about his plans for 2019, and he opened up about his brand #FlyManoloFly. Karalis’ plans for the season is to be 100 percent prepared for the upcoming outdoor season. “I had a serious injury on my leg and I was…
You put it to Kurtis Marschall that surely he must be a little mad to do the pole vault. He must have a touch of the daredevil in his soul. How else do you explain soaring up to six metres with just a pole made of fibreglass and metal to…
It’s said that records are made to be broken, but in 24 years, no one had been able to break the long jump record at Dallas High School. Until Wednesday. In a meet at Berwick, Mountaineer junior Matt Maransky broke the school record with a jump of 21 feet, 10½…
