Justin Rogers, Hershey, clears 16’ 9” before breaking his own state pole vault recored later clearing 17’ 2’, at the 2022 Mid Penn Track & Field Championships at Chambersburg Area High School in Chambersburg, Pa., May. 14, 2022. Justin Rogers, Hershey, sets a new state recored in the pole vault,…
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. – Senior Joe O’Connor (Henrico, Va. / Douglas Freeman) led the Washington and Lee men’s track and field team’s performances at the Mount Olive First Chance meet on Saturday with a new program and ODAC record. -O’Connor posted 5.05m (16’6.75″) in the pole vault to take first…
Kerry Seekamp remembers it well. Just a scrappy 12-year-old at Destin Middle School, every Sunday she’d get to share the pole vaulting pit alongside her idols, Niceville’s Maddy Kish and Kobe Babin. They were larger than life. They could clear monstrous heights. They, more than anything, represented all that Seekamp wanted for…
BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) – Russian members of the International Olympic Committee can take part in this week’s IOC session despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the Olympic body saying on Monday they are not representatives of their country. Yelena Isinbayeva, Olympic pole vault champion and member of the International…
The Washington State track and field team wrapped up its Pac-12 season this weekend with the Pac-12 Championships in Eugene and senior Jacob Englar is bringing some hardware back to Pullman after winning the Pac-12 pole vault championship Englar cleared 5.11 meters on his first attempt and that proved to…
Hamilton College’s Andrea Shipton ’22 finished fourth in the women’s pole vault in Nazareth College’s 2022 ROC City Final Qualifier at Golden Flyer Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Shipton cleared 3.05 meters (10 feet, 0 inches) on the first try, 3.20 meters (10 feet, 6 inches) on her second attempt at…
While the girls had the better team finish, senior Ben Kirbo had Stephenville’s only gold medal at the state track meet held last week in Austin. The senior cleared 15 feet and won the title when Pleasanton’s Preston Pilgrim and Argyle’s Mitchell Thompson missed at 15-3. Both Pilgrim and Thompson…
Pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall is favouring a bend but do not break approach to conquering his mental demons as he prepares to defend his Commonwealth Games gold medal. The WAIS scholarship holder is hoping to join Steve Hooker, Alana Boyd and Trevor Bickle as the only Australians to retain their…
HANOI — Ernest John Obiena didn’t deny everyone of a chance to glimpse his world class talent, winning the 31st Southeast Asian men’s pole vault gold in record fashion on Saturday. Amid the hazy sky in the drizzly afternoon at My Dinh Stadium, Obiena waited for all his competitors to…
DAVIS, Calif. – CSU Bakersfield men and women’s track and field showed up and made their presence known Friday at the Woody Wilson Track and Toomy Field in Davis. Miranda Miller highlighted the first day of the Big West Championships soaring to a conference title in pole vault. The Roadrunners…