CHARLESTON – After a third place finish in the pole vault at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships, Eastern Illinois junior Jade Riebold is to extend her summer of competition at this weekend’s US Track & Field National Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. Riebold qualified for the US…
The Eastern women’s track team has never placed an athlete on the podium at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships. For that matter, Eastern has never put an athlete in the top 10. Jade Riebold has changed that. The redshirt junior finished in third place Friday, capping a…
Jade Riebold’s athletic career has been an experience full of highs and lows that have left her hungry for success and made her a wiser athlete. A seasoned gymnast for 13 years, Riebold gave up on her dream after a two bulging discs in her back kept her from competing.…
Eastern’s track team is set for its indoor season after claiming its fourth straight Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Track Championship last season.One the women’s side, red-shirt junior pole-vaulter Jade Riebold returns after winning the OVC Field Athlete of the Year and finishing first in the OVC Championship in the pole vault with…
POWELL, Ohio – A woman shared her story Thursday after her Olympic dreams fell through. Jade Riebold’s life has revolved around little else than pole vaulting in the Olympics for the past four years, 10TV’s Glenn McEntyre reported. “Every day I wake up and I think about going to practice…
