NORMAL — Years from now, when Ryan Ashenbremer is coaching track and field, one of his athletes may not end their high school career with the bang everyone expects. The Illinois State sophomore, who is studying to become a physical education teacher, will surely recount the story of his own star-crossed…
Pole vaulter who was a member of the only Tulsa teams to win the Missouri Valley Conference championship; was the first repeat champion in the conference and won the pole vault in three consecutive years, setting a league record in 1962 and again in 1963; his vaults reached 13 feet,…