Mineola’s Abby Kratzmeyer won a gold medal in the pole vault at the Down Under Championships in Australia. Kratzmeyer, who will be a junior at Mineola High School, has won the Class 3A state title in the pole vault in each of her first two high school seasons. This past…
Cambridge-Isanti’s Char Morke won the girls pole vault title at the Class 2A state meet held at Hamline University on Saturday, June 8. The senior won by clearing 12-4, more than seven inches higher than any other competitor, to become the school’s first state titlist in girl’s track and field…
Watchung Hills junior Bradley Jelmert put the finishing touches on a standout season in the pole vault by winning his first Meet of Champions title Saturday at Northern Burlington High School in Columbus. Jelmert and Princeton junior Simon Schenk both cleared 15-6, but Jelmert did it on less attempts to win…
HILLSDALE — Jacob Krutsch, of Coldwater, has been flying high this year as a champion pole vaulter for Hillsdale Academy in Hillsdale. On June 1, Krutsch, a high school junior, competed in the Division Four state track meet against 20 of the state’s top vaulters to take first place in…
Dustin Meyer, a senior at Gates Chili, has a matching set of high school state championships. Meyer cleared 15 feet during the pole vault competition Friday during the outdoor state meet at Middletown, Orange County. His jump was the highest among vaulters at Division I (large schools) in the New…
Area athletes wrapped up their track season at four MHSAA State Track meets Saturday. Leading the way was Constantine’s Wyatt Alwine, who vaulted his way to a state champion in the Div. III pole vault with a height of 14-3. In other Div. III results at Jenison High School, Centreville’s…
Dexter’s track and field teams are year in and year out a state power in the pole vault and 2019 was not different as Nicole Bow came home with the girls’ state title and three other Dreadnaughts earned All-State Honors. The Dreadnaughts have had an All-State pole vaulter every year…
Monroe County senior Grace Turner took top honors in Girls’ Pole Vault and Girls’ High Jump in the Class 1A state track meet Thursday at the University of Kentucky Outdoor Track Facility in Lexington. Turner entered the competition as the No. 1 seed in both events and won first place…
Earlier that day, about the scheduled 5:15 p.m. start time for the pole vault, the nerves had set in for Wright. He had been pretty even through the preliminaries the day before with Rancho Bernardo’s Jacob Rice, and frankly didn’t know what to expect for the finals. Wright hit the…
AUSTIN — It was a celebration fit for winning state. But it came after clearing opening height. Gregory-Portland’s Riley Floerke was overjoyed to clear 11-feet, 6-inches in the pole vault. She showed as much emotion, if not more, than she did when she won the state title at 12-6, or added…
