For 125 years, the nation’s largest outdoor track and field event has convened on Franklin Field for Penn Relays, come rain or shine. With the Relays kicking off on Thursday, Penn runners and teams around the world were on campus for a weekend of competition. Penn’s Abby Norwillo competes in…
It was roughly one year ago when Notre Dame High’s Haley Horvath made history at the outdoor Meet of Champions. Thursday, she made more. Now a freshman at Towson University, Horvath claimed the college women’s pole vault championship title with a mark of 13-1 1/2, more than six inches higher than the rest of the…
Dannenbaum and DiGia are expected to be two of the top contenders for this year’s Meet of Champions title. Dannenbaum owns a personal-record of 13-0, set at groups last year and is a height that would have won at Penn in 2018 (winning height was 12-11 1/2). While a contender this…
Immediately after the boys’ pole vault event at Saturday’s Woodbury Relays, Delsea’s Marco Morales was seated on the grass, hunched over an iPad, rewatching his performance. His identical twin, Nico, sat beside him, staring off into to space like he was deep in thought and might have been reliving his…
COLUMBUS — Lindsey Michie woke up to a text message one morning that delivered the news every track athlete dreams of hearing. The news handed to the Northern Burlington senior was qualification into the Penn Relays pole vault competition. “I woke up and looked at my phone. One of my…
Below are the results for the boys pole vault at the 2018 Penn Relays. Follow this link to read more on the event and for an in-depth look at NJ.com’s Penn Relays coverage from Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Results
Below are the results for the girls pole vault at the 2018 Penn Relays. Follow this link to read more on the event and for an in-depth look at NJ.com’s Penn Relays coverage from Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Results
Notre Dame’s Haley Horvath cleared 11-11.75 to finish sixth in the pole vault at the Penn Relays on Thursday afternoon in Philadelphia. Horvath, the state indoor champion and first pole vaulter to compete at the Penn Relays from ND, holds a PR of 12-6 and would’ve needed to best that…
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.–Just as the excitement of a Championship of America title in the distance medley relay had started to sink in, Villanova was turning its attention to the thick of distance night events at the Penn Relays on Thursday evening. Junior distance runner Bella Burda (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.) and freshman Alex Harris (Stony Point, N.Y.) competed in the…
It took nearly five hours to determine a YAIAA pole vault champion on Friday afternoon, as three athletes continued to successfully clear a bar that kept getting higher and higher. Fittingly, the eventual champion also set a meet record in the process. That was York County Tech senior Lauren Corbitt, a…
