Julia Fixsen is Minnesota’s best-ever female pole vaulter but the Mounds View senior will miss that event in next week’s state meet, where she is the two-time defending champion. Fixsen, who qualified for state in three other events, did not place in pole vault because she “no-heighted,” meaning she failed…
Mounds View pole vaulter Julia Fixsen broke the state meet record as she captured her second gold medal in the event on Saturday. Fixsen, a junior, soared 13-9 1/4 on her third attempt at the height, after easily clearing 12-6 and 13-4 — which broke the previous record of 13-3…
Perham junior Ashley Hokanson continues to rewrite the school record book. In just her second year of competing in the pole vault she added the state’s top prize to her trophy case. Hokanson cleared 11 feet, seven inches to capture the Class A Championship. “I didn’t think I would ever…
As an infant, Julia Fixsen was obsessed with bouncing endlessly in her Johnny Jumper children’s harness at home. As she grew up, gymnastics was a passion, as was time spent practicing flips and tucks on the backyard trampoline. So it’s no surprise that the junior has become the state’s top…
One of the best high school pole-vaulters in Minnesota history, Calvin Ciganik, saw his career end with three failed attempts at the Section 5AAA meet Wednesday. Rather than add to the state gold medal he won as a sophomore and the silver he won as a junior, Ciganik didn’t qualify…
The No. 1 girls pole vaulter in the country, the second best diver in Minnesota and one of its handful of best gymnasts. Toss in that Andrianna Jacobs also has a 4.0 grade-point average at Rochester Century and is renowned as a won’t-be-denied worker, and it’s an easy choice. The…
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