A small contingent of Meeteetse track and field athletes made their mark last Thursday at the Lovell Invite. On the girls side, Maylee Potas continued a solid start in the pole vault. She cleared 7-01 to land third. READ MORE
Pole vaulting is a kind of flying of sorts with athletes being released via torque off a bending pole. That thrill has propelled Veronica Waugaman to new record heights. The North Ridgeville junior set a Lorain County record for girls pole vault May 14 at the Southwestern Conference meet with…
YORK – Stromsburg native Randy Johnson retired from teaching at York High in 2011. Johnson, who joined the York teaching staff in 1979-80, continues to work with pole vaulters at York High School and even some surrounding schools. He is considered one of the area’s best when it comes to…
VERMILLION, S.D.—South Dakota track and field has qualified a program record 26 entries to the NCAA West Preliminary held in College Station, Texas, starting next Wednesday. The Coyotes scratched a pair of entries from its initial 28 qualifiers. There will be 25 athletes taking the stage at the first round of…
After graduating from Columbus East High School, Katie Hagan plans to join the Marine Corps. But the senior has a couple of things she’d like to accomplish before she leaves next month for either San Diego or Parris Island in South Carolina. READ MORE
Ozark’s Abby Beets gave her family two COC championships in the pole vault with a winning vault of 10-0 at the COC Track Meet on Thursday. Beets’ younger sister, Mallory, placed first at the COC Junior High Track Meet in the pole vault by clearing 7-6. Their older sister, Katie,…
With a vault of 16 feet, 1 1/2 inches, Peters broke the state high school record in the pole vault at the Little Missouri Valley Conference meet Tuesday. The previous record of 16 feet, 1 inch was set by Rapid City Stevens’ Andy Henrichsen in 1995. Peters broke the record…
Teens from North Springs High School raised the bar at county championships. Two Jewish teens have made new records at North Springs High School for pole vaulting. Jordan Frank and Layla Keadle, both freshman at the school, broke records at a recent Fulton County Championship pole vaulting meet. Frank reached…
Timberg, a Central Bucks West High School senior, began challenging the state girls’ pole vault record last fall, clearing 12 feet, 9 inches before COVID-19 halted her progress. The state record of 13-7¼ wasn’t too far off, so she worked even harder toward breaking it. She started a sprinting and…
YNCHBURG, Va. — Junior Joe O’Connor (Henrico, Va./Douglas Freeman) won the pole vault with a school record mark of 4.86m (15’11.25″), as the Washington and Lee men’s track and field team sits in fourth out of nine teams after the day one of the Outdoor ODAC Championship hosted by Lynchburg…
