ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The 18-foot mark was in Montana State pole vaulter Colby Wilson’s mind long before he stepped on the runway at the Albuquerque Convention Center at the UNM Team Open this Saturday. In fact, he’s been thinking about clearing that height for over a year. Last year, the…
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Three-time Montana State pole vault champion Garrison Hughes finished ninth Friday at the USA Track & Field Junior Outdoor National Championships on the campus of Indiana University. Hughes cleared 4.85 meters (15’11”) on his final attempt before missing all three attempts at 5.00 meters (16’4.75″). The recently-graduated…
GLENDIVE — The bar keeps rising, literally, for Sidney’s Garrison Hughes. The Sidney Eagle senior cleared 17 feet in the pole vault competition at Saturday’s Eastern A divisional track and field meet, the highest vault by a Montana prep athlete in the state’s history. Read More and Watch the Video
With less than a month to go before the track and field state tournaments, most competitions are pretty open as to who will be state champions. However, Sidney’s Garrison Hughes has pretty much wrapped up a pole vault championship before the festivities even begin. On Saturday at the Glendive Elks…
Throughout the summer we’ve followed Billings teenager Christina Aragon’s journey from the Olympic Trials to Sunday’s bronze medal in the Under-20 World Championships. But Aragon isn’t the only Montana athlete testing her skills at the national level. Helena High’s Kamden Hilborn is days away from pole vaulting against the United…
HELENA – Some of the best pole vaulters in the world, and in the state of Montana, graced Helena’s Women’s Park on Saturday. The Last Chance Pole Vault Festival brought out the best and brightest including Montana high school record holder and 2015 Helena High grad Chase Smith and Carroll…
After initially pursuing opportunities to play football in college, 2013 Yerington High School graduate Riley Neville is now headed to the University of Montana on a track scholarship to pole vault. Riley had hoped to play football, his first love, but missing his senior season due to a knee injury…
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Emerald Gyuricza of Big Sky High School in Missoula, Mont., has signed with the Jamestown College track and field team. Jimmie pole vaulting coach Andrew Gideon saw Gyuricza compete in the Montana State meet where she placed fourth by clearing 10-feet, 9-inches. She also participated in soccer, cross country and…