Reisterstown resident and Franklin graduate Olivia Gruver earned a spot on the U.S. national track and field team that will compete in the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, from, Aug. 6-10. Gruver, who turns 22 next month, finished third in the pole vault at the NCAA Division I track and field…
RESULTS: NCAA Division I Championships Women’s Pole Vault View Results!
Welcome to America’s favorite game show, “Guess The Year.” (Cue audience applause … or jeers) Are you ready to play? HERE. WE. GO. The collegiate outdoor record in the women’s pole vault fell earlier in the season The long-standing collegiate outdoor record in the men’s pole vault is being threatened…
Coming into this season, pole vaulter Chase Smith had only competed in two outdoor meets since May 2017. After about three months of recovery from a right medial meniscus tear early into his 2018 campaign and redshirting his past indoor season, Smith is just now getting back into competitions. “I…
Olivia Gruver soared over the bar and cascaded down onto the mat, knowing that collegiate pole-vault history was about to be made — but only if the bar held steady. She had nicked it on the way down, and so Gruver looked up, apprehensively, to see if the bar was…
Senior Olivia Gruver cleared 15 feet, 6.25 inches early at today’s Stanford Invitational to set a new NCAA record in the outdoor women’s pole vault. The former record was held by Arkansas’ Sandi Morris, whose mark of 15 feet, 5.83 inches lasted nearly four years. Gruver barely edged out the…
NEW ORLEANS – Who will succeed Georgia’s Keturah Orji in picking up The Bowermanin 2019? The winner of collegiate track & field’s highest honor will not be named until mid-December at the next USTFCCCA Convention but with the start of the indoor season taking place across the country a slew of talented women were…
University of Kentucky junior Olivia Gruver won the gold medal in the pole vault at the Southeastern Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at Texas A&M on Saturday, clearing 15 feet, 3.75 inches. She nearly did more than just win her first SEC title. With her final jump she attempted…
Olivia Gruver won the NCAA pole vault championship last spring with a vault of 14 feet, 9 inches as a sophomore at Kentucky. Her ascent began at Franklin, where she won three state titles, but it also received something of a boost during that time. Indians girls coach Paul Hannsen said Gruver…
