Lincoln Lutheran’s Josie Puelz might be a part-time pole vaulter, but the senior is going with an all-out, full-time effort in pursuit of the Nebraska girls pole vault state record this track and field season. Puelz is a three-sport athlete who balances volleyball and basketball with a track slate that…
Not many athletic careers go without a minor speed bump. Andy Jacobs knows that better than most. The Husker pole vaulter was fresh off an impressive freshman campaign that included second-place finishes at the Big Ten indoor and outdoor meets. She was looking to take the next step in her…
Rural towns in the Midwest are known for hard work, toughness and grit. Husker freshman walk-on pole vaulter Garrett Elfeldt embraces those ideals. Elfeldt is a tough, hard-working 19-year-old from Sutherland, a small town in western Nebraska that is home to just over 1,000 people. He grew up on 3,000…
Performances like the one Josie Puelz had on Saturday at the Centennial Conference track and field meet in Columbus makes what happened to the Lincoln Lutheran junior pole vaulter at last year’s district meet a distant memory. Puelz won the girls pole vault conference gold medal by clearing 12 feet,…
Andrianna Jacobs, the top high school pole vaulter in the country her senior year at Rochester Century, has learned patience at Nebraska, that deconstruction must happen before construction. And Nebraska pole vault coach T.J. Pierce? His discovery has been that Jacobs — in her second year as a Cornhuskers vaulter…
In any other year, T.J. Pierce would have had a spot for a kid like Spencer Powell. But when Pierce, NU’s pole vault coach, got Powell on the phone in 2015, he explained the numbers crunch that could keep Powell from joining the Huskers. Instead he offered the only thing…
SIDNEY – Garrison Hughes continues to soar to new heights. The two-time defending Class A pole vault champion, Hughes officially signed his letter of intent with the University of Nebraska on Friday morning. The Class A record-holder will join the Cornhusker track and field program next fall. “He’s pretty excited,”…
Life is pretty good right now for Craig Driver. The senior pole vaulter on the Nebraska track team got accepted to graduate school to become a pharmacist. That was a huge relief, and something he’d been working toward for about four years. Two weeks ago, Driver had a career-best vault…
The Nebraska track and field team hosted the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational at the Bob Devaney Sports Center Indoor Track Friday, Feb. 5 and Saturday, Feb. 6. Several top tier track teams came to compete, including Texas, Texas Tech, Kansas State, Auburn, Arizona State, Illinois, UCLA, Iowa State, Kansas and…
