You have to admire a state champion who won’t settle for the mark they achieved to claim that title. Liam Landau is that athlete. The Pascack Hills senior entered the NJSIAA boys indoor track Meet of Champions with the state’s best mark of the season and fell short of that while winning his…
STATEN ISLAND – The Ramsey, Wayne Valley and Northern Valley girls and the Fort Lee, Lakeland and River Dell scored team wins on the second day of the Big North indoor track and field championships Wednesday, but as he has all winter, Pascack Hills’ Liam Landau stole the show. The Northeastern-bound…
Landau, who holds the outdoor Bergen County record in the pole vault at 15-7 1/2, became the third New Jersey vaulter this season over the 15-foot barrier when he cleared it on his first attempt to win the Marine Corps Classic in his second meet of the year. “I’m actually…
How high can they vault? In the last six years, the North Jersey indoor boys list of 15-foot pole vaulters has tripled from two to six with NV/Old Tappan teammates Tyler Hrbek, the 2018 state indoor champion and Seth Kricheff, the 2017 state indoor champion, both clearing 15 feet last…
Consider for a second: Liam Landau is a standout pole vaulter simply because of what he lacked three years ago. “When I started doing pole vault my freshman year, I did not expect to be at this point right now,” the junior on the Pascack Hills boys track and field team. “It’s really…
