Southern Regional senior Chelsea Vaughan won the pole vault, posting a jump of 12-0 to best sophomore Marlena Sabatino of Hillsborough and Voorhees senior Erin Knabe, who both had jumps of 11-6 at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions on Monday at Lombardi Field in Old Bridge. Sabatino’s Hillsborough teammate, senior Lindsay Carbone,…
It’s nothing new for senior pole vaulter Kovey Simmons. The DeRidder, La. native performed well enough in the 2011 track season to warrant an invitation to the NCAA Championships, and found himself in the same position for the 2012 season. Simmons turned in a solid performance at the NCAA East Regional Preliminaries…
Kevin Wagner proved to be a quick learner in his first full season pole vaulting. The Mankato Loyola-Cleveland senior earned his first medal at the Minnesota State Class A Track and Field Championships by placing fourth in the pole vault Friday at Hamline University in St. Paul. He…
Renaud Lavillenie has emerged as France’s main Olympic gold medal hope after a masterful pole vaulting display here fired out a warning to rivals ahead of this summer’s London Games. In cold, blustery conditions, the 24-year-old from the central city of Clermont won a high-level competition with a best of…
Giovanni Lanaro Olympic Training Center Chula Vista, California. May 24th, 2012. If you would like to subscribe to the physical print magazine that comes to your home in paper form, please click this link. http://www.thevaultermag.com/membership-account/membership-levels/ If you would like to post a message to our blog, simply sign up for…
Mount Shasta, Calif. — Junior Janelle Jaegel of Mount Shasta has become an elite pole vaulter for the Mount Shasta Bears track and field team. Last Friday, at the Northern Section Division 3 Championships in Mount Shasta, Janelle took first in the pole vault with a 9-foot mark – her best vault ever. …
Being upside down in midair is why Buna pole vaulter Nicole Casper constantly strives to increase her height in the sport. But it’s also the reason why many of her classmates through the years have thought twice about joining her on the pole vault runway. “We start out with many and…
JACKSONVILLE — On a searing afternoon at the University of North Florida, the bar again was raised in the Bales inner-family pole vault feud. A year after A.J. Bales won the Class 3A state title for Mitchell with a 14-foot, 9-inch effort, 17-year-old sibling Evan did him a bit better…
AN INTERVIEW WITH JENN STUCZYNSKI Cyphers, L. (2012). AN INTERVIEW WITH JENN STUCZYNSKI. Retrieved from http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3548240 Just trying to set the record straight. Jenn Stuczynski wants to set the record straight. The American silver medalist in the pole vault is not a trash talker, as the Russians seem to believe. She’s not…
