Rising junior Anthony Meacham of Woodsboro High in Texas, representing Vault Barn, cleared a personal-best 17-2.75 (5.25m) on his first attempt to capture the title in the boys high school section at the Vaulter Club Vaulter Magazine National Championships at the Big Red Barn in Sun City, Calif. Meacham, already…
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While KC Lightfoot and Bill Payne hold school records for the indoor and outdoor pole vault, respectively, no one has his footprint on Baylor pole vaulting more than Todd Cooper. Not only was Cooper there at the beginning of Baylor’s golden era of pole vaulting, improving the outdoor school…
When Moscow hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics, games were being played not only in Soviet arenas but at the headquarters of the KGB. The Kremlin was determined to host an untarnished event after the United States and 65 other countries boycotted the 1980 Olympics over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan…
It will be another five months of waiting before high school athletics in most of California will resume, the State CIF office announced Monday. High school sports, which have been on hold since mid-March as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, have been rescheduled to resume in December with…
Considering that Sandi Morris has pole vaulted on a bridge in downtown Greenville, in a mall in Des Moines, Iowa, and a train station in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday’s competition on her homemade backyard runway seemed rather, well, ordinary. The Morris’s homemade facility in the Acadia community in southern Greenville County…
