Lazing on the Bud Hertzog Stadium pole-vault pit before practice April 16, KC Lightfoot seemed almost nonchalant about reaching a major milestone. Lightfoot certainly wasn’t blasé when it happened, not after the Lee’s Summit senior cleared 18 feet for the first time in his remarkable career April 12 during the…
KC Lightfoot woke up at 4:30 a.m. Monday in New York to catch a flight home. He arrived back in Lee’s Summit roughly eight hours later and spent a jet-lagged afternoon jogging around the track at Lee’s Summit High School. Lightfoot wanted to be back in time for practice, so…
The second-best boys pole vaulter of 2017 is readying for the AAU Junior Olympics at Eastern Michigan University from July 29-August 5. Lee’s Summit (MO) High rising senior KC Lightfoot hit a PB of 17 feet, 8.5 inches at the Great Southwest Classic in June, earned an All-American nod at New Balance…
