There’s a picture of Hobart freshman Riley Johnston just inside the entrance at his family’s home. In that framed photo, he has a wide smile on his face and a pole slung over his shoulder like he’s about to take off down the runway for a vault. He was 3.…
A pole vault stand, pit and runway sit conspicuously against a rustic backdrop in a sprawling yard on 10th Street in Hobart. “The story hasn’t changed,” Jim Johnston Jr. said. Indeed it hasn’t. For years, a less elaborate setup stood on the adjoining property, owned, cleared and built by Johnston’s…
